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The Christian Nubia and the Arabs

open access: yesStudia Ceranea, 2015
Nubia constituted the area in the Nile Valley in the present day Sudan, the area which spread from the first cataract up to the place where the White Nile meets the Blue Nile. The area was inhabited by the population using a common language – Old Nubian.
Małgorzata Martens-Czarnecka
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DECEPTIVE SANCTITY: The Geopolitics of Shrines and Concealed Antiquities in Afghanistan

open access: yesCultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 82-106, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores a widely circulated legend in Afghanistan in which foreigners are believed to create shrines to conceal buried antiquities. It represents one of several narratives in which locals express mistrust of foreign motivations and geopolitical deception.
SHAMIM HOMAYUN
wiley   +1 more source

Erasure‐Coded Sharding and Proof‐of‐Storage for Practical Blockchain Trilemma Balance

open access: yesIET Blockchain, Volume 6, Issue 1, January/December 2026.
The proposed storage‐first blockchain framework resolves the blockchain trilemma by synergistically combining decentralised storage, zero‐knowledge proofs and sharded proof‐of‐storage consensus. Empirical evaluation demonstrates a peak throughput of 2800 transactions per second with low latency and strong Byzantine fault tolerance, while substantially ...
Saha Reno   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Harald Sigurdsson and the Russo-Byzantine War of 1043

open access: yesSlovene, 2014
The present article analyzes Kekaumenos’ commentary on the service of Harald Sigurdsson in the Byzantine army. Special attention is given to the composition of Consilia et Narrationes and the historiographic perception of this text.
Oleksandr M. Fylypchuk
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Multidimensional Assessment of Qinqiang Bitter Tone Performance via Cognitive Computation

open access: yesCognitive Computation and Systems, Volume 8, Issue 1, January/December 2026.
ABSTRACT Regional style music based on Qinqiang Opera's ‘bitter tone’ scale carries the unique charm of northwest Qin culture and its performance evaluation is of great significance for the inheritance of ethnic music. Existing evaluation methods either are confined to Western music theory or rely on expert subjective judgement, which weakens the ...
Wei Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing Security and Transparency in Satellite Data Transactions Using Ethereum‐Based Blockchain

open access: yesThe Journal of Engineering, Volume 2026, Issue 1, January/December 2026.
This study presents an Ethereum‐based framework for securing satellite data transactions using ERC1155 tokenization, Proof of Authority consensus, and Threshold Cryptography. The system achieves low latency, high throughput, and significantly reduced gas costs while providing strong resistance against MITM, Sybil, and reentrancy attacks.
Saha Reno   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Julián Byzantine, guitarra (Reino Unido)

open access: yes, 1993
Concierto celebrado por el guitarrista Julián Byzantine. Byzantine es uno de los más conocidos y aplaudidos concertistas de la Gran Bretaña. Sus presentaciones en 67 países han suscitado los más elogiosos comentarios. Nació en Londres.
Byzantine, Julián - Guitarra (Reino Unido)
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The Images of War in the Byzantine Historical Literature of the 10th Century: Nikephoros Ouranos

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2016
The reign of Basil II is considered by historians to be the time of the highest military and political power of Byzantium in modern historiography. Despite this fact, many issues connected with the period of 976-1025 remains poorly studied.
Karina R. Kapsalykova
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Synowie Hagar. Wiedza bizantyńczyków o armii arabskiej w świetle traktatów wojskowych z IX i X wieku

open access: yesVox Patrum, 2015
Arab military expansion was a real challenge to the Byzantine Empire. The defeats sustained in wars with the Arabs, whom the Byzantines called sometimes Hagarenes to refer to Biblical Hagar, forced new method of war waging.
Teresa Wolińska
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