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Goddess Nekhbet Scenes on Royal Monuments during the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties [PDF]
International Journal of Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality, 2019 Nekhbet was an early Predynastic local divinity in the Egyptian mythology. Her ancient Egyptianname meant She of Nekheb, she was the patron deity of the city of Nekheb. Ultimately, shebecame the tutelary deity of Upper Egypt and one of the two patron deities for all of AncientEgypt when it was unified.
Saraa El-Shamy +3 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Abúsírská nařízení krále Džedkarea a písaři královské kanceláře | The Abusir decrees of King Djedkare and the scribes of the royal chancery [PDF]
Pražské Egyptologické Studie, 2019 The Abusir papyrus archives are among the most important discoveries achieved by the Czech Institute of Egyptology FA CU during its six decades of exploration of the necropolis.
Hana Vymazalová
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Reconstructing Prehistoric Civilizations in a New Theory of Civilizations [PDF]
, 2003 A new mathematical theory of the oscillations of civilizations is successfully applied to Mayan, pre-historic Egyptian, sub-Saharan African (Great Zimbabwe) and prehistoric Chinese ...
Blaha, Dr. Stephen
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses ideas of ‘good governance through technology’ in India that first emerged from the software industry, symbolizing state support for the ‘new middle‐class’ values of liberalized private enterprise. We suggest that the contemporary prominence of consulting firms in government represents a second transformation that embeds ...
Matt Birkinshaw, Sanjay Srivastava
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Coresidence: How parental characteristics matter
Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Coresidence in the parental home is known to depend on young adult characteristics and market conditions, but there is more limited knowledge on whether or how parental characteristics matter. We model the coresidence outcome as a multigenerational joint optimization decision and use Panel Study of Income Dynamics data to examine the ...
Arthur Acolin +2 more
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Regional surname affinity: a spatial network approach [PDF]
, 2019 OBJECTIVE We investigate surname affinities among areas of modern‐day China, by constructing a spatial network, and making community detection.
Chen, Jiawei +5 more
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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Between the Indian Ocean and the Gulf: Ceramics From Ḥattā Oasis in the Emirate of Dubai
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study presents the ceramic finds from archaeological investigations conducted in 2024 at two settlements: ‘Islamic Village' and Suhaila 2, one of a number of mountain villages of the Late Islamic period within the Ḥattā Oasis: a high‐altitude exclave in the Emirate of Dubai. The sites are located on the northeastern slopes of Jabal Qallāt
Seth M. N. Priestman +3 more
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Jedna hrobka ve dvou dynastiích. Předběžná zpráva o výzkumu mastaby AS 104 v jižním Abúsíru | One tomb in two dynasties. Preliminary report on the excavation of mastaba AS 104 at Abusir South [PDF]
Pražské Egyptologické Studie, 2019 During the spring season of 2018, the mastaba of Nyankhseshat (AS 104; 29.60 × 13.20 m), belonging to the transitional type of tombs, was excavated at Abusir South.
Martin Odler +6 more
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