On the letter þ in the Greek alphabet used in Bactria [PDF]
, 2015 Este trabajo revisa las diferentes teorías sobre el origen del grafema þ con valor silbante en el alfabeto griego utilizado por la dinastía kushán en los territorios de la Bactria helenística a partir del siglo I d.
Redondo Reyes, Pedro
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Herodotus on Bactria between Achaemenid Mobility and Alexander’s campaign. Some reflections [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2021 Thanks to a recent monographic study by Chiara Matarese we are now able to understand more clearly both the reasons and the goals of a phenomenon, that of the so-called ‘deportations’ characteristic of the Achaemenid empire.
Marco Ferrario
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Paleodietary Analysis of Human Remains from a Hellenistic‐Roman Cemetery at Camihöyük, Turkey
Journal of Anthropology, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013 The presence of copper, zinc, magnesium, iron, lead, molybdenum, manganese and nickel was discovered on 22 human ribs in a Hellenistic‐Roman cemetery located in the ancient city of Camihöyük, Turkey. The levels of each element found in the males were higher than those in females, except iron.
Yusuf İzci +10 more
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Flipping the Coin: Alexander the Great’s Bactrian-Sogdian Expedition from a Local Perspective [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2021 The present paper examines written sources pertinent to Alexander the Great’s expedition in Bactria and Sogdiana. It focuses on the impact of the military campaigns on the local inhabitants in four interconnected fields of human activity (military ...
Michael Iliakis
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The Decline of Ptolemaic Elephant Hunting: An Analysis of the Contributory Factors [PDF]
, 2016 After the death of Alexander the Great in 323, his successors (diadochi) engaged in a series of internecine struggles to take control of the territory he had conquered.
Cobb, Matthew
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Mīrzā Muḥammad Naṣīr Furṣat al-Dawla and the Archaeology of Iranian Archaeology [PDF]
, 2015 Unlike other related studies which are focusing on either excavations or excavators, this essay explores some aspects of the early development of archaeology in Islamic Iran as a particular moment in intellectual history.
Szántó, Iván
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Trends in laryngeal cancer mortality in Europe [PDF]
, 2006 After a steady increase since the 1950s, laryngeal cancer mortality had tended to level off since the early 1980s in men from most European countries. To update trends in laryngeal cancer mortality in Europe, age-standardized (world standard) mortality ...
Bosetti, Cristina +8 more
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In the footsteps of Euthydemus. Preliminary report for archaeological survey in the Baysun District (South Uzbekistan), Season 2018 [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2019 The extensive archaeological surface survey conducted by the Czech -Uzbek team in the Baysun Mountains (south Uzbekistan) that started in spring 2017 continued a year later, in April and May 2018.
Ladislav Stančo +6 more
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Some Remarks on the Genesis of One of the Images of Early Medieval Art
Нижневолжский археологический вестник, 2019 The article focuses on the origin of the image of a dragon with a serpentine body known in the early medieval antiquities of Eastern European nomads. Researchers have long been discussing such images found on the sites of the Volga region and the Urals ...
Ilia R. Akhmedov
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1837, the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck, Austria, purchased a Roman bronze statue of a maenad from the 2nd century ce with red garnets as facetted eye inlays found near Brixen, Southern Tyrol. These garnets were investigated using optical microscopy, a portable hand‐held and a stationary micro‐X‐ray fluorescence device, as
H. Albert Gilg +3 more
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