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Imaging the gods: animal mummies from Tomb 3508, North Saqqara, Egypt
Antiquity, 2019 A collection of mummified animals discovered in 1964 in a Third Dynasty mastaba tomb at North Saqqara, Egypt, offers the unusual and unique opportunity to study a group of mummies from a discrete ancient Egyptian context.
S. Atherton-Woolham +3 more
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Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2018 Based upon fieldwork conducted in the Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, this paper explores the way in which the disposition, display and commemoration of the dead create meaning for communities of the living. Using two theoretical frames, “the work
Natalie C. Polzer
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Control of Aphids on Spring Oats and Winter Wheat With Slow Release Granular Systemic Insecticides [PDF]
, 2017 Aphid infestations (Homoptera: Aphididae) on spring oat (Avena sativa) cv. \u27Ogle\u27, and during the fall on winter wheat (Triticum aestivum) cv.
Araya, Jaime E, Cambron, Sue E
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Archaeologia Lituana, 2019 This article represents a summary of the author’s past 12 years of research on several mummy sets. As mummy studies expand as a sub-specialty of biological anthropology, it is important to highlight the significant contribution that the study of preserved remains can provide to both archaeology and history.
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Imaging Science in Dentistry, 2018 Purpose In the age of X-ray computed tomography (CT) and digital volume tomography (DVT), with their outstanding post-processing capabilities, indications for planar radiography for the study of the dentition of ancient Egyptian mummies may easily be ...
R. Seiler, P. Eppenberger, F. Rühli
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Here Be Monsters: Imperialism, Knowledge and the Limits of Empire [PDF]
, 2016 It has become a truism in discussions of Imperialist literature to state that the British empire was, in a very significant way, a textual exercise. Empire was simultaneously created and perpetuated through a proliferation of texts (governmental, legal ...
Macfarlane, Karen E.
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Mummification in Korea and China: Mawangdui, Song, Ming and Joseon Dynasty Mummies
BioMed Research International, 2018 Over the decades, mummy studies have expanded to reconstruct a multifaceted knowledge about the ancient populations' living conditions, pathologies, and possible cause of death in different spatiotemporal contexts.
D. Shin, R. Bianucci, H. Fujita, J. Hong
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Injuries in deep time: interpreting competitive behaviours in extinct reptiles via palaeopathology
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.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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Mummies’ physiognomy and its reflections in the artistic style of the New Kingdom
Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage, 2022 The research paper discusses the facial features on a number of statues of kings and queens from the New Kingdom, and whether they are “realistic or idealistic” when compared to their mummies’ faces.
Sara A. Abdoh
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Antiquities Theft: The Role of the Museum in Modern Symbolic Violence [PDF]
, 2019 Humans have been collecting artifacts for centuries, whether it is for their aesthetic value or for the acquisition of knowledge. However, these artifacts have, in most cases, been taken without permission from the countries of origin. Today, museums are
Amato, Meredith M.
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