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Development of a settlement on the northeastern promontory at 'Marea' [PDF]

Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2020
The ancient topography of the settlement on the northeastern promontory at ‘Marea’ (North Hawariya) was the subject of investigations carried out at the site in 2018 within the frame of a broader excavation project. Fieldwork established the date of some
Tomasz Derda, Mariusz Gwiazda, Aleksandra Pawlikowska-Gwiazda   +2 more
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“The Gates of Eternal Life”: Metamorphosis and Performativity in Middle to Late Byzantine Sculpted Church Doors (with a Case Study of a Wallachian Wooden Door)

Religions
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in analyzing the manufacturing techniques of Byzantine church doors in laboratory settings. However, the connection between the iconography and significance of the décor of church doors and their ...
Elisabeta Negrău
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Skeletal evidence of Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH) in a collective burial from Byzantine Greece

Anthropological Review, 2018
The paper reports on a collective burial from a 13th c. AD cist grave in Attica, Greece. The grave was located inside a basilica and held the remains of at least ten adults.
Tritsaroli Paraskevi
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“Something Is Rotten in the State of Denmark” – Diseases of Emperors and Prominent Persons in Byzantine Historical Narratives as an Expression of Turmoil in the Empire

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения
The Byzantine emperors and officials suffered from the diseases. Information about them was employed in Byzantine historical texts as a literary motif in order to express corruption of the ruling class in the Empire and criticism of imperial policy.
Bojana Pavlović
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La transition lychnologique byzantino-arabe en Egypte et au Proche-Orient: lampes coptes et musulmanes de la collection Bouvier [PDF]

Peuce, 2013
The analytical study of 63 unpublished clay lamps allowed us to review all the existing typologies of a crucial period for the Egyptian lamp workshops, i.e.
Laurent CHRZANOVSKI
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Vegetation history and climatic fluctuations on a transect along the Dead Sea west shore and impact on past societies over the last 3500 years. [PDF]

, 2010
This study represents the vegetation history of the last 3500 years and conducts an analysis of the climatic fluctuations on a 75 km long transect on the western Dead Sea shore.
Neumann, FH, Leroy, SAG
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Byzantine military rhetoric in the ninth century: A translation of the Anonymi Byzantini Rhetorica Militaris

, 2021
Byzantine Military Rhetoric in the Ninth Century is the first English translation of the ninth-century Anonymi Byzantini Rhetorica Militaris. This influential text offers a valuable insight into the warrior ethic of the period, the role of religion in ...
Theotokis, Georgios, Sidiropoulos, Dimitrios   +1 more
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Theories and cures of the rheumatic diseases during the byzantine period (330-1453 a.D.)

Reumatismo, 2011
Most Byzantine medical texts described the rheumatic diseases. The Byzantine physicians, based on the ancient Greek texts, explained the causes of rheumatic diseases, described their symptoms and proposed certain treatments. The Byzantine medical sources
E. Poulakou-Rebelakou, N.T. Economou, C. Tsiamis   +2 more
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Impact of earthquakes on agriculture during the Roman–Byzantine period from pollen records of the Dead Sea laminated sediment

, 2010
The Dead Sea region holds the archives of a complex relationship between an ever-changing nature and ancient civilisations. Regional pollen diagrams show a Roman–Byzantine period standing out in the recent millennia by its wetter climate that allowed ...
Marco, S, Miller, CS, Suzanne A.G. Leroy, Bookman, Revital, Miller, Charlotte S., Shmuel Marco, Charlotte S. Miller, Leroy, Susanne A., Revital Bookman, Leroy, SAG, Bookman, R, Marco, Shmuel   +11 more
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Fortification Architecture in Argolis, Greece: Documentation, Analysis and Restoration Proposal of the Princess Tower

Heritage
This paper presents the typology of a freestanding Late/Post-Byzantine tower in the Peloponnese, a rare architectural type, as most comparable examples in the region have been lost due to abandonment, climatic degradation, and the absence of systematic ...
Konstantinos Dimitroulias, Styliani Papatzani   +1 more
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