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KAREN RADNER, ANCIENT ASSYRIA: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION. OXFORD: UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2015
Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2015 Karen Radner, Ancient Assyria: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: University Press, 2015, pp.
Horatiu Cocis
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The Journey of Oral Hygiene: The Past, the Present, the Future. [PDF]
J Periodontal ResThis review traces the evolution of personal oral hygiene from ancient chewing sticks to modern powered toothbrushes and interdental devices, linking historical developments with contemporary evidence on efficacy, safety, and behavior. Despite technological advances, periodontal health relies on consistent biofilm removal, highlighting the need for ...
van der Weijden F.
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From Dilmun to Wādī al‐Fāw: A forgotten desert corridor, c. 2000 BC
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 63-86, November 2023., 2023 Abstract There is a lacuna of knowledge on the inland trade routes across Bronze Age central Arabia, which this article seeks to fill based on new evidence from Wādī al‐Fāw, Saudi Arabia. Contrary to a common belief that interior Southeast Arabia after the Holocene Humid Phase and until the domestication of the dromedary had turned desolate Badlands ...
Steffen Terp Laursen, Faleh al‐Otaibi
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Art History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 714-748, September 2023., 2023 The most remarkable feature of the Hammelburg Mahzor, a fourteenth‐century German High Holiday book, is the inclusion of zoocephalic figures: humans with beastly heads. The purpose of this essay is to explore the semiotics and phenomenology of this specifically Jewish visual idiom, and to suggest that its presence lies at the intersection of language ...
Elina Gertsman
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Evidence, hints and assumptions for late pregnancy in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
Acta Paediatrica, Volume 112, Issue 7, Page 1371-1377, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Ancient women, who survived childhood mortality, received good and adequate nutrition, did not work hard and escaped death during childbirth could live fairly long lives. Girls started procreation after marriage, usually at 15 years, had on average seven children, childbearing lasted 14–21 or more years and could happen at the age of 35 or ...
Ariadne Malamitsi‐Puchner +1 more
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The evolution of the Swedish market model
Economic Affairs, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 170-184, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Sweden historically pioneered many aspects of a modern market economy, hosting the first known share company, the first European credit notes, and the first central bank. Anders Chydenius's booklet Den nationella vinsten (The National Gain) was printed in 1765, 11 years before Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations.
Nima Sanandaji +3 more
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Eastern Encounters: Ilia Repin's Orientalist Aesthetics Abroad and at Home
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 228-255, April 2023., 2023 This essay examines Ilia Repin's sustained engagement with European Orientalist painting and its impact on his oeuvre. Through close readings of three of his major works, Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom (1876), Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1885), and Zaporozhian Cossacks Writing a Letter to the Turkish Sultan (1880–91), it argues that Repin ...
Maria Taroutina
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Modeling Strategic Decisions in the Formation of the Early Neo-Assyrian Empire [PDF]
, 2015 Understanding patterns of conflict and pathways in which political history became established is critical to understanding how large states and empires ultimately develop and come to rule given regions and influence subsequent events.
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A VIOLENT END OR A RESPECTFUL BEGINNING? CAVE 120 AT LACHISH REVISED
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 373-396, November 2022., 2022 Summary Cave 120 and three adjacent caves at Tel Lachish in southern Israel produced the largest concentration of human crania ever unearthed in the Near East. The conventional interpretation associates this deposit with primary burials of victims of the city’s destruction by King Sennacherib of Assyria in 701 BC. Taking into consideration attitudes to
Yosef Garfinkel, Eylon Cohen
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Lead isotope analysis of Meroitic period glass from Nubia with LA‐MC‐ICP‐MS
Archaeometry, Volume 64, Issue 5, Page 1148-1167, October 2022., 2022 Abstract Analytical studies of glass found at sites in Nubia (ancient Sudan) have shown the variety of glass present during ancient times. This study examines Meroitic period (c.350 bce–350 ce) glass from Nubia: here categorized as low‐lead and high‐lead.
Juliet V Spedding
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