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“Flames Over Persepolis”: New Scientific Evidence Supporting Historical Perspectives

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the burning of Persepolis Terrace, historically attributed to Alexander III in 330 bce. A review of classical accounts and excavation reports, combined with diagnostic surveys, confirms the fire's historicity and provides novel insights.
Maria Letizia Amadori, Ileana De Giuseppe, Fabrizio Frontalini, Luca Pellegrino, Richard W. Jordan, Pierfrancesco Callieri, Emad Matin, Alireza Askari Chaverdi, Hamid Fadaei, Valeria Mengacci, Fulvio Fantino   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Toward a historical sociology of infectious disease governance: an interview with Alexandre White. [PDF]

Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
White A, Sá GSR.
europepmc   +1 more source

Decolonizing Central Europe: Czech Art and the Question of 'Colonial Innocence'. [PDF]

Vis Resour, 2021
Rampley M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Assessing Mobility Among Inferred Elites Interred in Crypts 1–3 on Kom H at Tungul (Old Dongola), Sudan

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the capital of Makuria, Tungul was a major sociopolitical center within medieval Nubia, being the seat of a bishopric and a monastic community. During the excavation of the Kom H monastery, three burial crypts (Crypts 1–3) were uncovered.
Robert J. Stark, Artur Obłuski, Robert Mahler   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Zenana to courtroom: the politics of genre and gender in Sujata Massey's historical crime fiction. [PDF]

Front Sociol
G T N, Mukherjee A.
europepmc   +1 more source

An Archaeometric Approach to Reveal Organic Compounds via GC‐MS Analyses of Two Discovered Incense Burners at Daba Al‐Bayah

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study focuses on two terracotta incense burners discovered in the Daba Al‐Bayah necropolis in the Musandam Peninsula (Oman), associated with an Iron Age collective tomb (LCG‐2). Through gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC‐MS), the organic residues preserved within these artifacts were analyzed to investigate their use and ...
Francesco Genchi, Federica Spagnoli, Vittorio Vinciguerra, Stefania Garzoli   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

White Adultocene. Rethinking modernity through figures of the Child in the history of racial oppression. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Mock C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Media power in digital Asia: Super apps and megacorps. [PDF]

Media Cult Soc, 2022
Steinberg M, Mukherjee R, Punathambekar A.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Mapping Language: Names, Speakers and Voices

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract In this conversational piece, we reflect on our experience of working with and on maps and map‐makers that have shaped linguistic conventions and ideas, suggesting geographers have much to contribute by engaging with such mapping. It illuminates how maps rendered the unpredictable geography of speakers and the naming of places as ...
Beth Williamson, Philip Jagessar
wiley   +1 more source

What Weber Got Right About Brahmins-Testing His Theories About South Asian Caste Hierarchies. [PDF]

J Hist Behav Sci
Pal S.
europepmc   +1 more source