<i>Giardia duodenalis</i> and dysentery in Iron Age Jerusalem (7th-6th century BCE). [PDF]
Mitchell PD +5 more
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Chaldean and Neo-Platonic Theology [PDF]
In the present paper, the meanings the term “Chaldeans” acquired during the Antiquity and the early Middle Ages are presented, but mainly the role the Chaldean Oracles played inside the movement of Neo-Platonism is emphasized. The stratification of Being
Viglas, Katelis
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Language and Dialect Identification of Cuneiform Texts
This article introduces a corpus of cuneiform texts from which the dataset for the use of the Cuneiform Language Identification (CLI) 2019 shared task was derived as well as some preliminary language identification experiments conducted using that corpus.
Alstola, Tero +3 more
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The Assyrian Heroic Epic Of Qa īne Gabbara: A Modern Poem In The Ancient Bardic Tradition [PDF]
This work discusses a modern Assyrian epic, Qa īne Gabbara, in both its oral and written traditions, and examines its importance in marking continuity in culture, traditions and language.
Donabed, Sargon
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Deut 27 and Ancient Media: The Torah Stones and the Meaning of Covenant
The tablets of the covenant are one of the most enduring symbols of the Hebrew Bible. In Deuteronomy 27 the command is given to inscribe on stones “all the words of the this torah”: וכתבת על–האבנים את–כל–התורה הזאת .
Ramos, Melissa
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Medicinal plants in the treatment of urinary tract malignancies during the Araboislamic period (7th- 14th century AD). [PDF]
Drogosis A +5 more
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Who Are Herodotus\u27 Persians? [PDF]
In analyzing how Herodotus\u27 descriptions of foreign societies reflect Greek assumptions and prejudices, we have sometimes failed to recognize the extent to which he reports persuasive and historically valid information.
Munson, Rosaria Vignolo
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Revealing the secrets of a 2900-year-old clay brick, discovering a time capsule of ancient DNA. [PDF]
Arbøll TP +5 more
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Diglossia and the Neo-Assyrian Empire’s Akkadian and Aramaic Text Production
As this paper aims to highlight, the Assyrian Empire’s language environment, and in particular its scribal production, was diglossic, with a sharp distinction between the highly codified literary language of Standard Babylonian for high status texts and three vernacular languages for lower status communications (Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian and Aramaic)
openaire +2 more sources
Phytolith evidence for the pastoral origins of multi-cropping in Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq). [PDF]
Laugier EJ, Casana J, Cabanes D.
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