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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study focuses on two terracotta incense burners discovered in the Daba Al‐Bayah necropolis in the Musandam Peninsula (Oman), associated with an Iron Age collective tomb (LCG‐2). Through gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC‐MS), the organic residues preserved within these artifacts were analyzed to investigate their use and ...
Francesco Genchi +3 more
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Science and Library in the Ancient Age
Türk Kütüphaneciliği, 2016 Science assumes its contemporary identity as a result of the stages of magic, religion and reason. The religious stage starts with the invention of writing and this stage leaves its place to reason with Thales in Ancient Greece.
Hasan Sacit Keseroğlu, Güler Demir
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The return of metabolism: biochemistry and physiology of glycolysis
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Glycolysis is a fundamental metabolic pathway central to the bioenergetics and physiology of virtually all living organisms. In this comprehensive review, we explore the intricate biochemical principles and evolutionary origins of glycolytic pathways, from the classical Embden–Meyerhof–Parnas (EMP) pathway in humans to various prokaryotic and ...
Nana‐Maria Grüning +19 more
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Tyndale Bulletin, 2001 There are many studies exploring the idea of innocent suffering and the concept of theodicy as it occurs in the literature of ancient Mesopotamia and Israel, but this is not so much the case with ancient Egyptian literature.
Daniel P. Bricker
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Modeling Strategic Decisions in the Formation of the Early Neo-Assyrian Empire [PDF]
, 2015 Understanding patterns of conflict and pathways in which political history became established is critical to understanding how large states and empires ultimately develop and come to rule given regions and influence subsequent events.
Altaweel, M +3 more
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The circulation and distribution of classical Greek coinage
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract From a sample of the most prominent Greek city‐states, data involving a total of 999 hoards and 160,007 coins from 550 to 300 BC were collected to discern the relative magnitudes, consistency of issue, and distribution of Classical Greek coinages.
Zane Mullins
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Punishments Connected with Person of Offender in Selected Countries of Ancient World
Journal 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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Lo que cuentan las estrellas : el oficio de los astrónomos en la Antigua Mesopotamia
Espacio, 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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Weighing Stones in Ancient Mesopotamia
Historia 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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Ancestral Irrigation and Women's Political Empowerment
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the adoption of irrigation agriculture during the preindustrial period is a predictor of contemporary cross‐country variation in women's political empowerment. Countries whose populations historically relied on irrigation agriculture as their primary subsistence mode tend to ...
Roberto Ezcurra
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