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C. J. Crisostomo, E. A. Escobar, T. Tanaka, and N. Veldhuis, “The Scaffolding of Our Thoughts”
: The volume under review collects 20 essays dedicated by different scholars to Francesca Rochberg, a professor of Assyriology and renowned expert on ancient Mesopotamian celestial divination.
Lorenzo Verderame
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A Bibliography of Cuneiform Tablet Editions in United States Colleges and Universities through 2020
This dataset contains bibliographic data of publications containing scholarly editions in any language of cuneiform tablets in small collections of cuneiform objects (typically 5–20 objects) in United States colleges and universities, current through ...
Sara Mohr
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Austen Henry Layard at the remains of Nineveh: The everyday life of an archaeological expedition
The everyday life of research laboratories has been widely viewed as a promising avenue of historiographic studies concerning the accumulation, processing, and production of scholastic knowledge, which depends on many internal and external factors ...
A.A. Popova
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Climate change and early urbanism in Southwest Asia: A review
Some of the earliest cities in the world occupied the dryland environments of Southwest Asia. We review the role of climate fluctuations in the emergence, collapse, and resilience of these cities, and argue for greater focus on the differential persistence of urban sites through time. Abstract During the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age (c.
Dan Lawrence +2 more
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A Social Network of the 'Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire'
The dataset is a social network of over 17,000 individuals who lived during the so-called Neo-Assyrian period of Mesopotamian history, primarily in the eighth and seventh centuries BCE. The undirected network of individuals connected by co-occurrences in
Heidi Jauhiainen, Tero Alstola
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THE VICTORIA INSTITUTE, BIBLICAL CRITICISM, AND THE FUNDAMENTALS
Abstract The Victoria Institute was established in London in 1865. Although billed as an anti‐evolutionary organization, and stridently anti‐Darwinian in its rhetoric, it spent relatively little time debating the theory of natural selection. Instead, it served as a haven for a specific set of intellectual commitments. Most important among these was the
Stuart Mathieson
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The “Mesopotamian Ancient Place-names Almanac” (MAPA) focuses on the southern Mesopotamian city of Uruk and its extensive hinterland (Biblical Erech, modern Warka), one of the world’s first mega-cities. Uruk possesses some of the earliest attestations of
Shmuel Clark, Shai Gordin
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Annotated 3D-Models of Cuneiform Tablets
The dataset1 consists of 3D scans of one cuneiform tablet from Haft Tappeh Iran and one cuneiform tablet of the Hilprecht Collection as well as 3D annotations on these 3D meshes, including metadata.
Timo Homburg +3 more
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Schmidt, J. (2014). Thirteen Years in Istanbul (1937-1949). German Assyriologist Fritz Rudolf Kraus and His Correspondences in Turkish Exile. Leiden: Brill. Vol.1: xx, 906 pp.; Vol.2: vi, 848 pp.
Vildan Yarlıgaş
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ABSTRACT Historians’ interest in the history of human migrations is not limited to recent years. Migrations had already figured as explanatory factors in connection with cultural and historical change in the work of classical and ancient studies scholars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the writings of these scholars, migrations
FELIX WIEDEMANN
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