Late Antiquity and World History [PDF]
, 2017 The flourishing of late-antique studies in the last half-century has coincided with the rise of “world history” as an area of academic research. To an extent, some overlap has occurred, particularly with Sasanian Persia being considered alongside the ...
Mark Humphries
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Formation and Destruction of Pastoral and Irrigation Landscapes on the Mughan Steppe, North-Western Iran [PDF]
, 2010 CORONA satellite photography taken in the 1960s continues to reveal buried ancient landscapes and sequences of landscapes – some of them no longer visible.
Alizadeh, Karim, Ur, Jason Alik
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The Balkh 93 AH fulus revisited [PDF]
, 2010 The coins discussed here have been already published, and therefore are not new to the numismatic community. As far as I can see, they were first mentioned by Steve Album who says that a small hoard of them was found1, and they are also listed in the ...
Schindel, Nikolaus
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Introduction - What Is in a Period? Arabic Historiography and Periodization [PDF]
, 2014 This article introduces the question of periodization in a comparative perspective under three headings: space, subject matter, and agency. The issue of space has deeply influenced reflections on periodization as is, evident, for instance, within changed
Hirschler, Konrad, Savant, Sarah
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Production of Dirhams at the Mint of Damascus (Dimashq) in the First Four Centuries of Islam and the Question of Near Eastern Metallic Zones [PDF]
, 2016 All examination of 159 hoards with 1822 dirhams minted at Damascus during the first four centuries of Islam sheds much light on a number of important questions regarding the economic history of the Near East during the Umayyad, 'Abbasid, and Ikhshidid ...
Kovalev, Roman K.
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Monotheism the Zoroastrian Way [PDF]
, 2014 This article examines seemingly monotheistic, polytheistic and dualistic features of Zoroastrianism from the point of view of the Zoroastrian creation myth.
Ahn +78 more
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Ancient Cities and Landscapes in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: The Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey 2012 Season [PDF]
, 2013 In 2012, the Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey (EPAS) conducted its first season of fieldwork. The project’s goal is the complete mapping of the archaeological landscape of Erbil, with an emphasis on the Neo-Assyrian and Hellenistic periods.
De Jong, Lidewijde +4 more
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Late Holocene onset of intensive cultivation and introduction of the falaj irrigation system in the Salut oasis (Sultanate of Oman) [PDF]
, 2018 This paper discusses the time and steps of the introduction of intensive agriculture and evolution of irrigation systems to sustain crops in the palaeo-oasis of Salut in the northern Sultanate of Oman.
Cremaschi, Mauro +5 more
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La Civilización del Oxus [PDF]
, 2013 La Civilización del Oxus, también conocida como la Civilización de Bactria-Margiana, está centrada en el oasis de Murghab, Turkmenistán, y datada entre el 2200-1700 AC. Descubierta por Victor Sarianidi en la década de 1970, continua sus excavaciones en
Lamberg-Karlovsky, C. C.
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Samad ash-Shan, Preliminary Report 1988 [PDF]
, 1988 Das südöstliche Arabien – ein untererforschtes Teil des Vorderen Orients – wird meist als Teil der parthischen und sasanidischen Hoheiten betrachtet. Schwerpunkt unseres DFG-getragenen Projekts war es, von dieser vordergründigen Ansicht abzuweichen und ...
Weisgerber, Gerd, Yule, Paul
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