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A Fight to Reclaim the Central Asian Frontier. The Seleucid and Parthian Rivalry in the 230s BC [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Hercynia, 2021
This article investigates the initial conflict between the Parthians and Seleucids in the late 230s BC that established a much longer period of rivalry between these opposing forces. Arsaces I founded the independent Parthian kingdom in northeastern Iran
Nikolaus Leo Overtoom
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Study of Garnets in Hellenistic–Roman Jewellery From the Collections of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece

open access: yesJournal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 56, Issue 11, Page 1235-1253, November 2025.
This study presents the gemological analysis of 25 garnets from Hellenistic and Roman jewellery in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki using mobile Raman spectroscopy and micro‐EDXRF. The garnets are classified into three geochemical clusters, with notable differences in distribution between Thessaloniki and Pydna, suggesting distinct trading ...
Maria Nikopoulou   +8 more
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Conflicts among Civilizations: The Influence behind War and Art [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Why war or conflicts are fought between civilizations is a subject that could be debated with no end. The complexity of how our species reacts with each other and generates conflict exceeds the limitations of a single concept.
Pickett, Ross
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Mīrzā Muḥammad Naṣīr Furṣat al-Dawla and the Archaeology of Iranian Archaeology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Unlike other related studies which are focusing on either excavations or excavators, this essay explores some aspects of the early development of archaeology in Islamic Iran as a particular moment in intellectual history.
Szántó, Iván
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Intercultural Relations between Southern Iran and the Oxus Civilization. The Strange Case of Bifacial Seal NMI 1660. [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2014
New archaeological evidences of the so-called "Bactrian-Margiana Archaeological Complex" (= BMAC) has invited a change in our knowledge of the cultural relations between Oxus civilization and south-eastern Iran during the III-II millennium B.C ...
Enrico Ascalone
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Early Pyrrhonism as a Sect of Buddhism? A Case Study in the Methodology of Comparative Philosophy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
We offer a sceptical examination of a thesis recently advanced in a monograph published by Princeton University Press, entitled Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia. In this dense and probing work, Christopher I. Beckwith,
JOHNSON, Monte Ransome, SHULTS, Brett
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First Full‐Vector Archeomagnetic Data From Central Asia (3 BCE to 15 CE Centuries): Evidence for a Large Non‐Dipole Field Contribution Around the First Century BCE

open access: yesJournal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Volume 129, Issue 2, February 2024.
Abstract Unraveling the short‐term behavior of the Earth's past geomagnetic field at regional scales is crucial for understanding its global behavior and, thus, the dynamics of the deep Earth. In this context, obtaining accurate full‐vector geomagnetic field records from regions where archeomagnetic data are absent becomes essential.
R. Bonilla‐Alba   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preferential attachment in the protein network evolution

open access: yes, 2003
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae protein-protein interaction map, as well as many natural and man-made networks, shares the scale-free topology. The preferential attachment model was suggested as a generic network evolution model that yields this universal ...
A. Vazquez   +8 more
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Antibacterial and Antioxidant Activities of Triterpenoids and Cyclic 1,7‐Diarylheptanoids from the Stem Bark of Myrica salicifolia: A Combined Experimental and Computational Study

open access: yesJournal of Chemistry, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.
Myricasalicifolia A Rich (Myricaceae) is a tree growing in Central and East Africa. Traditionally, the plant is used to treat malaria, respiratory disorders, inflammations, and infections. A new compound, 3β‐O‐trans‐caffeoylisomyricadiol (7), was isolated from MeOH : CHCl3 (2 : 1) extract of the stem bark of Myrica salicifolia along with seven known ...
Abraham Dilnesa Gashaw   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Minerals in Afghanistan : gemstones of Afghanistan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Afghanistan and gemstones have been inextricably linked for 6500 years and the country remains rich in precious and semiprecious gemstone deposits (Figure 1). Lapis lazuli, mined in the Hindu Kush since the Neolithic Period, was transported along the
Benham, Antony John, McIntosh, Robert
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