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Although Egyptian mummies appeared in America in the late 18th century, an active American presence in Egyptian archaeology did not begin until the very last of the 19th century. These volumes derive from an exhibition featuring
Andrew L. Christenson
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The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL
University College London houses one of the world’s most important collections of ancient Egyptian material, the majority excavated by Flinders Petrie, his students and his successors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is a museum of archaeology that helps to explain the development of a discipline that was in its infancy when Petrie worked ...
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A STEP IN STONE. ONTOLOGIES OF PODOMORPHIC PETROGLYPHS IN SOUTHERN SCANDINAVIAN BRONZE AGE
Summary During the Bronze Age, a particular type of podomorphic petroglyph was produced on the outcrops by the sea in southern Scandinavia. In this text, their distribution, organization and articulation are analyzed in the Mälaren region of central‐eastern Sweden.
Fredrik Fahlander
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Summary This article analyses the dynamics of Roman olive‐oil and wine production and commerce in present‐day France from the second half of the second century BC to the mid‐fourth century AD, drawing on a corpus of more than 7000 amphorae recovered from Gallic and Romano‐Gallic settlements across the French territory, excluding Alsace. The methodology
Álvaro Soto Hernández
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THE ASTRAL ENTITIES Ixmw sk AND Ixmw wrD IN THE PYRAMID AND COFFIN TEXTS FROM A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE [PDF]
The two linguistic structures Ixmw sk and Ixmw wrD were mentioned during the Old Kingdom in the Pyramid Texts in common written forms, and they were also associated with determinatives indicating a semantic concept that links them to resurrection ...
Yomna Khaled, Ayman Waziry, Samir Adeeb
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How digitisation of herbaria reveals the botanical legacy of the First World War
Digitisation of herbarium collections is bringing greater understanding to bear on the complexity of narratives relating to the First World War and its aftermath – scientific and societal. Plant collecting during the First World War was more widespread than previously understood, contributed to the psychological well‐being of those involved and ...
Christopher Kreuzer, James A. Wearn
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Notes on the Concept and Significance of the Astral Entities Ixmw sk and Ixmw wrD in the Ancient Egyptian Language [PDF]
Egypt served as a base for astronomical sciences, where astronomy was subjected at that time to the laws of nature, which viewed celestial bodies as belonging to worship and deities more than as a subject of scientific study.
Yomna Khaled, Ayman Waziry, Samir Adeeb
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Injuries in deep time: interpreting competitive behaviours in extinct reptiles via palaeopathology
ABSTRACT For over a century, palaeopathology has been used as a tool for understanding evolution, disease in past communities and populations, and to interpret behaviour of extinct taxa. Physical traumas in particular have frequently been the justification for interpretations about aggressive and even competitive behaviours in extinct taxa.
Maximilian Scott +3 more
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Interview with Dr. Alice Stevenson
Dr. Alice Stevenson is the newly appointed Senior Lecturer in Museum Studies at UCL Institute of Archaeology and the course coordinator for Collections Curatorship and Ancient Egyptian Archaeology. In this interview she reflects on her career in academia
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This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
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