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Cultural encounters during the LBII and IAI: Hittites and “Pelesets” in the Amuq (Hatay) Turkey

open access: yesAsia Anteriore Antica, 2019
The analysis of long-dormant archaeological documentation and recent archaeological discoveries concerning the Amuq region (modern Hatay) have shed new light on the period from the Late Bronze Age II to the Iron Age III, reopened old questions ...
Marina Pucci
doaj   +1 more source

The Semantics of Purity in the Ancient Near East: Lexical Meaning as a Projection of Embodied Experience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article analyzes the primary terms for purity in Biblical Hebrew, Ugaritic, Sumerian, Akkadian and Hittite. Building on insights from cognitive linguistics and embodiment theory, this study develops the premise that semantic structure – even of ...
Yitzhaq Feder
core   +1 more source

“STRANDED ON THE SHORES OF HISTORY”? MONUMENTS AND (ART‐)HISTORICAL AWARENESS

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 338-358, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Can past agents deliberately influence our historical awareness by designing objects’ appearances and sending them to us down the stream of time? We know they have certainly tried to do so by raising monuments. But according to an influential narrative, the efforts of the “monumentalists” are destined to fail: no monument can keep a legacy ...
Jakub Stejskal
wiley   +1 more source

Final proposal for encoding the Phoenician script in the UCS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This is a proposal to encode the Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform script in the international character encoding standard Unicode. This script was published in Unicode Standard version 5.0 in July 2006.
Everson, Michael   +2 more
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Foreword – Archaeometry special issue on chronological modeling

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 67, Issue S1, Page 1-6, June 2025.
Abstract It is well understood that archaeologists, by definition, always strive to assess time as precisely as possible. However, the lack of efficient temporal data interoperability limits our understanding of cross‐cultural historical evolution. This Special Issue of Archaeometry on chronological modelling features nine contributions which, while ...
Thomas Huet, Eythan Levy
wiley   +1 more source

A Proposal for Research on Indo - Turkish Relations

open access: yesBelleten, 1982
Interchange between India and Turkish world is older than Islam and there is little doubt that Indians and Turks during the Hittite period have several common religious concepts and even political contacts.
N. Akmal Ayyubi
doaj   +1 more source

Some Observations on the Exiled Members of the Royal Family during the Old Hittite Period

open access: yesVakanüvis - Uluslararası Tarih Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023
Exile, which means sending a person or a community from one place to another as a punishment or forced migration, has been recorded in almost every historical period. Various policies were applied for exile in the Hittites, who lived in the second millennium BC.
openaire   +3 more sources

Ideological reflections of the health and sports cult in the early republican period sculptures in Turkey

open access: yesSculpture, Monuments and Open Space, Volume 74, Issue 1-4, Page 56-71, January-December 2025.
Abstract In the 19th and 20th centuries, countries such as Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union, which wanted to create strong nations and restore the health of their people affected by wars, epidemics, and poverty, believed they could prove their power in the international arena.
Begüm Sönmez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Retrieving the Motif and Evolution of the Double-Headed Eagle in Iranian art from Ancient to Seljuk Period [PDF]

open access: yesهنر و تمدن شرق
In ancient civilizations such as Iran and Mesopotamia, an eagle figure can be seen, which has two heads - inclined to the right and left - and with open wings.
Mohammad Motevalli   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tuwati and Wasusarma: Imitating the behaviour of Assyria [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This essay reviews the evidence concerning the Tabalian king Wasusarma and his father Tuwati, who appear in Neo-Assyrian and Urartian annals. The context for the removal of Wasusarma (Uassurme) from power by the Assyrian king is assumed to have lain in ...
Akdoğan   +51 more
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