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Conflicts among Civilizations: The Influence behind War and Art [PDF]

, 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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New Research on the Gymnasium of Eretria [PDF]

, 2018
Das Gymnasion von Eretria gilt als eines der besten Beispiele für frühhellenistische Palästren. Dieser Beitrag präsentiert die Ergebnisse neuer Forschungen, die die Schweizerische Archäologische Schule in Griechenland 2015 und 2016 durchgeführt hat und ...
Ackermann, Guy, Reber, Karl
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 29-52, March 2026.
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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Minerals in Afghanistan : gemstones of Afghanistan [PDF]

, 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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Study of Garnets in Hellenistic–Roman Jewellery From the Collections of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece

Journal 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, Stefanos Karampelas, Evangelia Tsangaraki, Lambrini Papadopoulou, Christos Katsifas, Ioannis Nazlis, Annareta Touloumtzidou, Vasilios Melfos, Nikolaos Kantiranis   +8 more
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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

Journal 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, M. Gómez‐Paccard, F. J. Pavón‐Carrasco, S. A. Campuzano, E. Beamud, V. Martínez‐Ferreras, J. M. Gurt‐Esparraguera, E. Ariño‐Gil, F. Martín‐Hernández, M. L. Osete   +9 more
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Greeks, Iranians, and Kušān in Tokharistān. Bactrian Identities and the Kušān Empire [PDF]

Studia Hercynia
The Bactrian epigraphic and numismatic material from the Kušān period, despite its scarce, eclectic and scattered nature, contains a wealth of information about cultural and ethnic identities in Bactria at the time.
Stefan Härtel
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Innovation Processes in Bronze Age Temples in the Central Asia

Археология евразийских степей
The temples and palaces of Bactria and Margiana in the Bronze Age are of special interest in histori-cal science. In the last third of the XX – early XXI centuries, in the archaeology of the Bronze Age in the ...
Abdusamad M. Kurbonov
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Kurgans of the Eastern Kugitang Piedmonts. Preliminary Report for Season 2018 [PDF]

Studia Hercynia, 2018
Kurgans are characteristic monuments of the Central Asian cultural landscape. The eastern piedmonts of the Kugitang mountain range (Southern Uzbekistan) emerged to be a noteworthily rich area in the occurrence of these various structures made of stones ...
Jakub Havlík, Hana Havlíková, Ladislav Stančo   +2 more
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Early Pyrrhonism as a Sect of Buddhism? A Case Study in the Methodology of Comparative Philosophy [PDF]

, 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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