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New finds of Byzantine lead seals in the district of Edirne
Античная древность и средние века, 2019 The present paper is based on the report on international colloquium on Rus’-byzantine sigillography (Kiev, 13–16 September 2013). It contains the new scientific information about eleven Byzantine lead seals from the area of the city of Adrianople ...
Mikhail Nikolayevich Butyrski
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Archaeometric Analyses of Medieval Pottery from the Lower Danube Region, Romania
ChemPlusChem, Volume 90, Issue 9, September 2025.This study is about the pottery manufacturing in the Lower Danube region during the Early Medieval period (8th–10th c. AD). Optical microscopy, Particle induced X‐ray emission, and X‐ray diffraction analyses performed on 32 representative ceramic shards excavated at Pantelimonu de Sus, Constanţa County, Romania, provide clues on the raw materials and ...
Constantin Haită +3 more
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Theophano Mouzalon: new finds – old open
Античная древность и средние века, 2018 In connection with the discovery of a new, third seal of Theophano Mouzalon, archontessa of Rosia, versed in the work hypothesis of the publisher of V. Ulianovsky.
Victor Chkhaidze
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Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062
History, Volume 110, Issue 392, Page 459-473, September 2025.Abstract The Byzantine emperor Alexios I's 1095 embassy to Pope Urban II has been characterized in three different ways: as a request for troops that inadvertently triggered the First Crusade, as a manipulation of western reverence for the Holy Sepulchre and as active Byzantine–papal collaboration.
JONATHAN HARRIS
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Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 309-340, August 2025.This article studies the ways the sixth‐century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non‐textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public ...
Robert Flierman, Hope Williard
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An Account of Roman Surgical Treatments for Ozena: Historical Review
The Laryngoscope, Volume 135, Issue 7, Page 2249-2254, July 2025.This historical study investigates ancient Roman surgical techniques for treating ozena as described by Celsus, with a focus on its historical and etymological context. Independent translation and archaeological evidence contextualize two ancient procedures: closed nasal cauterization using a heated probe and an open approach involving dissection and ...
Perry Hammond +2 more
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Seals of Kommerkiarioi of the Ros’
Античная древность и средние векаThis article addresses the seals of the kommerkiarioi of the Ros’. So far there are known two groups of the seals in question. The first includes five specimens showing the flowering patriarchal cross on two steps on the obverse and the Greek inscription
Elena Vladimirovna Stepanova
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Dating an ancient spring tunnel using archaeological artefacts functioning as nuclei of cave pearls
Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 3, Page 748-772, June 2025.Abstract Cave pearls are spherical concentric speleothems growing radially around nuclei in shallow pools saturated with calcite. They are very rare in the Southern Levant. We present a unique assemblage of 50 cave pearls found in the Iron Age Joweizeh artificial spring tunnel in the Jerusalem Hills of Israel. Some of these deposits represent the first
Azriel Yechezkel +6 more
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The Lost Large Mammals of Arabia
Journal of Biogeography, Volume 52, Issue 6, June 2025.ABSTRACT Aim If successful, plans to restore the vegetation of the Arabian Peninsula (AP) as announced by the Middle East and Saudi Green Initiatives will see the greatest increase in vegetation cover since the beginning of the Holocene Humid Phase (HHP), roughly 9–10,000 years ago.
Christopher Clarke, Sultan M. Alsharif
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Tractoriae and the logistics of Carolingian entourages
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 158-182, May 2025.Entourages played a central role in Carolingian politics and military organization. Yet historians have neglected the important question of how kings and magnates supplied their retinues. This article investigates that topic by examining an overlooked genre of evidence: tractoriae or royal letters of requisition.
Eric J. Goldberg
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