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Astronomy and Astrology of Ancient Mesopotamia [PDF]
, 2023 Bakalářská práce se zabývá vývojem oborů astronomie a astrologie na území starověké Mezopotámie, dále pak jejich využitím v praxi a vlivem na moderní společnost.ObhájenoThe bachelor thesis deals with the development of astronomy and astrology in ancient ...
Ptáková, Anna
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Ancestral Irrigation and Women's Political Empowerment
Kyklos, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 377-398, May 2026.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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Akkadian Prayers in Ancient Mesopotamia [PDF]
, 2016 Prayer is ubiquitous in human societies, including ancient Mesopotamia, but it often appears alien or distant to our modern sensibilities. A closer look shows that this seemingly arcane topic tells us much about Mesopotamian hopes, fears, rituals, and ...
Lenzi, Alan
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STORING GRAINS DURING NINEVITE 5 PERIOD IN THE KHABOUR BASIN: WAYS AND METHODS USED [PDF]
, 2014 Within about 3000 BC began the process of urbanization, shifting to build big cities, northeast Syria, in the beginning of the Early Bronze Age. The archaeologists were able to identify the above-mentioned urbanization process in different civilized ...
Badra, Nancy
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CULTURAL FUSION IN LATE BRONZE AGE GOLDWORK: DIADEMS AND MOUTH‐PIECES FROM HALA SULTAN TEKKE, CYPRUS
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 151-179, May 2026.Summary This study investigates recently discovered gold diadems and mouth‐pieces from seven chamber tombs and one shaft tomb at the Late Bronze Age cemetery of Hala Sultan Tekke, dating from the fifteenth to the thirteenth centuries BC. The chamber tombs, all containing multi‐generational burials, yielded a variety of ornaments, which are analysed in ...
Peter M. Fischer
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Medicine and Doctoring in Ancient Mesopotamia [PDF]
, 2014 Medicine and pharmaceuticals in Mesopotamia during the span of c. 3000-1000 BCE were more sophisticated than many ancient and modern scholars from other cultures would concede.
Teall, Emily K.
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ROMtels video package - Enquiry 2 Ancient Mesopotamia [PDF]
, 2017 <p>Zip file with all video clips needed for ROMtels Enquiry 2 Ancient Mesopotamia.</p> <p>These videos were designed to be used with our free ROMtels software package (https://zenodo.org/record/269642#.WNJoboOLSUk).
Smith, Heather, Smith, Heather (5290066)
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Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue S1, Page S7-S21, April 2026.Abstract Kohl was ubiquitous in ancient Egypt and the Middle East, and routinely included among the toiletries deposited in burials. For Egypt, kohl recipes are increasingly well‐studied and known to use a range of inorganic and organic ingredients. Although these are often lead‐based, manganese‐ and silicon‐rich compounds are also attested.
Silvia Amicone +7 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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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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