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Archaeological evidence of luxury textiles from Late Antique Serdica
Evidence of archaeological textiles from antiquity, and in particular of luxury textiles, has long attracted the interest of researchers. Clothing in every historical period is among the clearest markers of prestige and social status.
Iliana Borisova-Katsarova
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The graphical abstract shows how molecular biology research has shifted from using traditional animal models toward using methods that are more relevant to humans. It points out the main problems, differences between species, difficulty in reproducing results, moral issues, and lack of infrastructure that make translational accuracy harder to achieve ...
Md. Shajid Hossain Rafi +6 more
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Pappus of Alexandria and the mathematics of late antiquity
Book synopsis: This book is at once an analytical study of one of the most important mathematical texts of antiquity, the Mathematical Collection of the fourth-century AD mathematician Pappus of Alexandria, and also an examination of the work's wider ...
Cuomo, Serafina
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Embedding Chemistry and Pharmacy Into Sustainability
Chemistry and pharmacy provide products and processes that are indispensable for our high living standard. To understand their relationship with sustainability is important to allow them to contribute to sustainability in a sustainable manner. An integrated overview of green, circular, and sustainable chemistry and pharmacy is given and how they have t
Klaus Kümmerer
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DIVINE REVELATIONS ON THE FRANCO-VISIGOTH ROADS RURING THE 4TH-7TH CENTURIES
In Late Antiquity, travellers suffered countless difficulties when setting out on a journey. The roads were full of problems and in this scenario numerous clerics crossed the Iberian Peninsula and France either to attend the councils to discuss ...
Patricia Ana Argüelles Álvarez
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Martyrs, athletes, and transmedia storytelling in late antiquity
Fan fiction in antiquity suffers from a lack of certainty regarding what is canon. Is what is now considered fan fiction really fan fiction, or is it another contemporary version of the canon? The concept of fan fiction thus ought to be combined with the
Monika Amsler
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Abstract The Pleistocene is a key period for understanding the evolutionary history and palaeobiogeography of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). The species was first documented in southeastern Iberia at the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene and appears to have rapidly spread throughout Southwestern Europe, where it was found in numerous ...
Maxime Pelletier
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In 2001 excavations in Rue Jean Moulin in Uckange (Moselle) revealed part of a Roman cemetery. The site has returned several human cremations and a quadrangular building, maybe an enclosure or an ustrinum, all dated to the 2nd–3rd century AD. Furthermore,
Arnaud Lefebvre +4 more
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Top Scholars in Classical and Late Antiquity
This article takes off from a recent attempt by Walter Scheidel to “collect and analyze bibliometric evidence for the impact of published research in the field of Ancient History”; this, criticized by Nathan Pilkington; and Scheidel, answering with ...
Ramsay MacMullen
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"I Sank through the Centuries" : Late Antiquity Inscribed in Göran Tunström's Novel The Thief
A unique treasure has been kept in Uppsala University Library in Sweden since the 17th century: the Gothic Codex Argenteus. The aim of this chapter is to examine Göran Tunström's novel Tjuven (1986; The Thief) about a fictive theft of the codex, and its ...
Bodin, Helena,
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