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Between the Visionary and the Archaic. Iannis Xenakis’s Cosmic City

, 2003
Almost parallel with his groundbreaking theoretical work Musiques formelles (Xenakis, 1963), the late composer and architect Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) published “The Cosmic City” (Xenakis, 1965). In this urban proposal, 5 million inhabitants are housed in a single megastructure, a hyperbolic paraboloid of more than 3000 meters high and 50 meters wide.
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Cercetări arheologice recente în Acropola tomitană (2017-2018). Studiu preliminar / Recent Archaeological Investigations on the Tomitan Acropolis (2017-2018). Preliminary Study

Tyragetia, 2019
The present study aims to briefly present the results of a preventive archaeological research, recently concluded in the peninsular area of Constanţa city.
Mototolea Aurel, Potârniche Tiberiu, Stanc Margareta Simina   +2 more
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Relief Stelae From Athens: The External Evidences Regarding Heracleia Pontica (The 5th to 4th Centuries B.C.)

Anadolu Araştırmaları
Heracleia Pontica despite having such an important place in the ancient world, the settlement constitutes one of the areas in the southwestern Black Sea where the need for archaeological studies is felt intensely.
Ali Bora
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Society, Cities, and the Significance of ‘Sacred Roads’ in Archaic Greece, in the Chinese Qin and Han Empires, and in the Archaic States of the Middle East

Martin Mohr’s chapter extends issues of urban space and infrastructure to the critical theme of Sacred Roads. It thus complements the chapters on neighborhoods, water supplies, and public gardens. Within the city and beyond its urban environment, roads have been both a facilitator of mobility and a conveyor of meaning at all times and in all cultures ...
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Gadir archaic foundation. An historiographic construction of a city: real or invented?

Archivo Español de Arqueología, 2019
La investigación de la antigua ciudad fenicia de Gadir ha estado condicionada históricamente por la falta de evidencias materiales urbanas, lo que ha propiciado que durante siglos se fijara una imagen en extremo idealizada de la ciudad basada en la lectura acrítica de los testimonios literarios y su (re) interpretación por la historiografía posterior ...
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Defense Systems at Klazomenai and their Role in the Urbanization Process of the Site from Early Bronze Age into the Late Archaic Period

Höyük
Klazomenai, in North Ionia, is unique in comparison to the other city-states in the region because of diverse archaeological evidence. Current data from the settlement suggest a smooth transition from the end of the second into the first millennia BC. In
Hüseyin Cevizoğlu, Yaşar Erkan Ersoy
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Genetic affinities between the ancient Greek colony of Amvrakia and its metropolis. [PDF]

Genome Biol
Psonis N, Tabakaki E, Vassou D, Papadantonakis S, Souleles A, Nafplioti A, Kousis Tsampazis G, Papadopoulou A, Xanthopoulos K, Panailidis P, Georgiadou A, Papakosta D, Koursioti S, Evangelinou M, Papadopoulou V, Evaggeloglou P, Korka E, Christidis I, Ioannou M, Kontogianni T, Arkoumanis A, Stamatakis A, Poulakakis N, Papageorgopoulou C, Pavlidis P.   +24 more
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Space in archaic Greek lyric: city, countryside and sea

, 2012
From the end of the twentieth century onwards space has become a ‘hot topic’ in literary studies. This thesis contributes to the spatial turn by focusing on space in archaic Greek lyric (7th-5th C BC). A theoretical framework inspired by narratology, phenomenology and metaphor theory is applied to archaic lyric poems in which city, countryside and sea ...
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Regulation of NAT1 activity in modern humans by a novel phosphorylation site. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Fast L, Alberro ML, Rakava E, Ågren R, Riesenberg S, Huttner WB, Kelso J, Pääbo S, Zeberg H.   +8 more
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The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans. [PDF]

Nature
Castro E Silva MA, Nunes K, Ribeiro MR, Passarelli-Araujo H, Lemes RB, Kimura L, Sacuena P, G Amorim CE, Bortolini MC, Mill JG, Guerreiro JF, Barbieri C, Hernández-Zaragoza DI, Walter A, Chowdhury TN, Macías-Herrera D, Lara-Riegos JC, Del Castillo-Chávez O, Zurita C, Tito-Álvarez AM, Vásquez-Domínguez E, Moo-Mezeta ME, Torres-Romero JC, Aguilar-Campos A, Serrano-Osuna R, Parolín ML, Bravi CM, Ramallo V, Bailliet G, Revollo S, Sandoval JR, Fujita R, Barquera R, Santos FR, Comas D, Hünemeier T.   +35 more
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