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The influence of religious and cosmological beliefs on the solar architecture of the ancient world [PDF]
, 2014 In the earliest civilizations of the Ancient World, sun worship developed in parallel with an understanding of the movement of the stars. That was the origin of an architecture that expressed a number of religious and cosmological beliefs.
Fumadó Alsina, Joan Lluís +2 more
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Material Affective Engagements: Examples from Ancient Mesopotamia
Aestimatio: This article applies approaches from current emotion research on material affective scaffolds—objects made and used to enhance, and more generally transform, affective states—to the emerging field of study focusing on emotions in ancient Near Eastern ...
Ulrike Steinert, Giovanna Colombetti
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Thinking Materially: Cognition as Extended and Enacted [PDF]
, 2017 Human cognition is extended and enacted. Drawing the boundaries of cognition to include the resources and attributes of the body and materiality allows an examination of how these components interact with the brain as a system, especially over cultural ...
Overmann, Karenleigh A.
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Reading Polanyi in Erbil: understanding socio-political factors in the development of IraqiKurdistan [PDF]
, 2018 The Kurdistan Regional Government emerges out of the chaos of post-Saddam Iraq as a rare positive, providing both political stability and economic growth.However, the outward display masks a more complex domestic settlement where the trappings of the ...
Smith, Robert
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The FASEB Journal, Volume 39, Issue 24, 31 December 2025.Whole genome sequencing of Galicians (GALOMICS; 17.2 M variants) reveals a genetic landscape consistent with broader Iberian patterns, characterized by only five clusters. Phylogenetic analyses indicate recent divergence and mild regional inbreeding.
Jacobo Pardo‐Seco +7 more
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Ethno-cultural and Religious Identity of Syrian Orthodox Christians [PDF]
, 2009 Many Middle Eastern Christian groups identify or have been identified with preIslamic peoples in the Middle East: the Copts with Ancient Egypt, the Nestorians with Assyria, the Maronites with Phoenicians and some RumOrthodoxand other Christians with pre
Donabed, Sargon, Mako, Shamiran
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Yeast, Volume 42, Issue 12, Page 303-310, December 2025.ABSTRACT Yeasts have been intimately connected with human civilization for millennia, originally used for fermentation in food and beverage production. This article explores the multifaceted roles of yeasts—particularly Saccharomyces cerevisiae—as both a model organism and a cell factory.
Jens Nielsen
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Levantine Hacksilber and the flow of silver in early Mediterranean commerce
Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 6, Page 1547-1564, December 2025.Abstract This study presents a comprehensive approach to provenancing ancient silver artefacts, introducing a novel algorithm to correct for mass‐dependent isotope fractionation. Applied to a Pb isotope database of 281 Hacksilber samples from southern Levantine hoards (1700–600 BCE) and compared with approximately 7000 galena ores from Spain to Iran ...
Francis Albarede +4 more
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Exploring geomagnetic variations in ancient mesopotamia: Archaeomagnetic study of inscribed bricks from the 3rd-1st millennia BCE. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Howland MD +5 more
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Cultural foundations of the concept of straight and undulating line in art
АрхитектонThe concept of two types of lines in plastic arts is discussed. The word ‘concept’ is analyzed, and a definition of the concept of line in art is proposed.
Osmankina Galina Yu.
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