Results 61 to 70 of about 297,058 (276)
Resources, Opportunities and Limits of Data and Open Source Tools Used in Preventive Archaeology
ProceedingsOpen resources are increasingly used in preventive archaeology, following a more general trend in society, with a useful and effective impact for this task.
Alessandro Vanzetti, Sara Marino
doaj +1 more source
Ancient Roman technology of aluminum production: Process reconstruction
Тонкие химические технологии, 2019 Ancient sources indicate that aluminum was known at Ancient Rome. The article attempts to reconstruct the ancient technological process of production of metallic aluminum based on the currently available information about the properties of aluminum and ...
P. P. Fedorov, A. M. Samoylov
doaj +1 more source
Italy Through the Stereoscope: Journeys in and About Italian Cities [PDF]
, 2013 Book is intended as a text to accompany 'one hundred stereoscopic photographs of Italy' and to be used in conjunction with five maps. Pictures are not present. Gives a history of Rome, followed by text to accompany each picture.
core
Scientific ReportsLeprosy was one of the most outwardly visible diseases in the European Middle Ages, a period during which leprosaria were founded to provide space for the sick.
Elena Fiorin +6 more
doaj +1 more source
Book Review of Morales, H. (2020). Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths
New Classicists, 2021 Book Review of Morales, H. (2020).
Abbie Jukes
doaj
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
wiley +1 more source
Enforcement law in ancient Rome
Journal of Modern ScienceThe subject of this article is Roman enforcement law. It has undergone numerous changes and evolutions over the centuries, with differences evident in the approach to execution on the person and property of the debtor.
Bartosz Piotr Stróżewski
doaj +1 more source
Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley +1 more source
M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause
History, EarlyView.Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
wiley +1 more source
Rome’s urban history inferred from Pb-contaminated waters trapped in its ancient harbor basins [PDF]
, 2017 Heavy metals from urban runoff preserved in sedimentary deposits record long-term economic and industrial development via the expansion and contraction of a city’s infrastructure. Lead concentrations and isotopic compositions measured in the sediments of
Albarède, Francis +5 more
core +5 more sources