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The Image of Lion in Assyrian Reliefs: The Examples in the Time of Ashurbanipal, II [PDF]
پیکره, 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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Codes as Constitution: The Development of the Biblical Law-Codes from Monarchy to Theocracy [PDF]
, 2009 As a result of influence from assyriology and the sociology of law, the Hebrew legal texts have commonly been categorised in recent study as ancient law-codes analogous to the cuneiform codes recovered from the ancient Near East.
HU, HUIPING
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Nations 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
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Tell Brak y Hamoukar: urbanismo en el norte de Mesopotamia en la primera mitad del IV milenio a.C.
Espacio, 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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Pleiades In Ancient Mesopotamia
, 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
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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The politics of ancient Mesopotamia [PDF]
, 2012 Conventional wisdom asserts that the empires of ancient Mesopotamia were ruled by blood-thirsty tyrants with a penchant for megalomania and a lust for power.However, archaeological work conducted during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has begun to
Benjamin Isakhan (13061202)
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Zoologica Scripta, EarlyView.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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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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Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 804-810, August 2026.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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