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Tell Brak y Hamoukar: urbanismo en el norte de Mesopotamia en la primera mitad del IV milenio a.C.

open access: yesEspacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie I, Prehistoria y Arqueología, 2015
Las excavaciones arqueológicas de los últimos años en la alta Mesopotamia han revelado la existencia de importantes centros urbanos que remontan sus orígenes al V milenio a.C. en el contexto de la cultura Ubaid.
Antonio Pérez Largacha
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The Image of Lion in Assyrian Reliefs: The Examples in the Time of Ashurbanipal, II [PDF]

open access: yesپیکره, 2018
As one of the prominent civilizations of northern Mesopotamia (now Iraq), Assyrian civilization enjoys a distinguished place in terms of the arts of relief and sculpture.
Medona Lia, Fatemeh Kateb
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Pleiades In Ancient Mesopotamia

open access: yes, 2016
In this paper I will analyse the different features of the Pleiades in the astronomical, astrological, and calendrical interpretation as well as their mythical and cultural background in ancient Mesopotamia. According to cuneiform sources, the Pleiades are among the most important stars. They are simply known in Sumerian as ―the Stars‖ (MUL.MUL), while
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Weighing Stones in Ancient Mesopotamia

open access: yesHistoria Mathematica, 2002
The article analyses the Old Babylonian text YBC 5652, a catalogue of problem statements (with appurtenant solutions but no description of the procedure) of the type: I found a stone; I did not weigh it I added/removed \(p\) I added/removed \(q\) (of the resulting weight); 1 mana (resulted), \(p\) and \(q\) being mostly aliquot parts, at times absolute
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Mother of the Nation? The Digital Appropriation of Shanidar Z in Kurdish and Regional Identity Politics

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how the reconstruction of Shanidar Z, a 75,000‐year‐old Neanderthal woman discovered in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, became a focal point for digital negotiations of identity, ancestry, and belonging. Drawing on 51 Facebook and YouTube posts and 17,126 associated comments in Kurdish, Arabic and English, the study ...
Dana Sofi
wiley   +1 more source

Punishments Connected with Person of Offender in Selected Countries of Ancient World

open access: yesJournal on European History of Law, 2011
The article deals with sanctions directly connected with the person of offender in the established group of selected ancient states (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Hittite Empire).
Michaela Uhlířová
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Digital Futures Between Participatory Digital Democracy and Participatory Digital Fascism

open access: yesPolicy &Internet, Volume 18, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper explores one of the defining political questions of the twenty‐first century: will digital technologies strengthen democracy or accelerate new forms of authoritarianism and fascism? Against the backdrop of platform capitalism, AI‐driven communication, surveillance infrastructures, disinformation and democratic crisis, the study asks
Christian Fuchs   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Päikesekuninga kontseptsiooni tekkest ja arengust Anatoolias II eelkristlikul aastatuhandel [PDF]

open access: yesMäetagused, 2009
The concept of sun king was widely spread in ancient cultures, for example in Peru (among the Incas), India, and the Ancient Middle East already in the 2nd and 3rd millennium BC.
Vladimir Sazonov
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Last Tile Added to a Mosaic: Phylogenetic Placement of Enigmatic Freshwater Fish Leucalburnus satunini (Cypriniformes: Leuciscidae) Uncovered

open access: yesZoologica Scripta, Volume 55, Issue 5, Page 718-727, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Subfamily Leuciscinae, the largest freshwater fish group of the western Palearctic region, has been widely studied, including the phylogenetic relationships between its species and genera. However, until now, one genus completely escaped attention in this regard. Even though several works hypothesised about its evolutionary relationships based
Jasna Vukić   +3 more
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Lo que cuentan las estrellas : el oficio de los astrónomos en la Antigua Mesopotamia

open access: yesEspacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 2011
Desde épocas muy remotas, los habitantes de la antigua Mesopotamia, habían interpretado los sucesos del cielo como fenómenos premonitorios. Pequeños grupos de expertos y eruditos, dedicados a observar los astros y sus movimientos, escribieron series de ...
Piedad Yuste
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