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Sovereignty and the Persistence of the Aesthetic
The Modern Law Review, Volume 87, Issue 6, Page 1393-1421, November 2024.British constitutional thought tends to understand sovereignty in legalistic terms, with the concept often equated with the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty. As Loughlin and Tierney have recently argued, this approach obscures the political considerations which undergird the legal precept. In this article we argue that this approach misses a third,
Illan Wall, Daniel Matthews
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FINGERPRINTS ON FIGURINES FROM THONIS‐HERACLEION
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 399-418, November 2024.Summary This paper studies ancient fingerprints to produce an estimate of the age and sex of the makers of several terracotta figurines found at Thonis‐Heracleion in Egypt, dated to the Late and Ptolemaic periods (seventh–second centuries BC). This is only the second study of its kind to discuss the use of ancient fingerprint impressions from Ancient ...
Leonie Hoff
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Les Cahiers de l'École du Louvre, 2016 The ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead is a collection of magic-religious formulas, whose aim was to aid the deceased on his way to a happy life in the hereafter. Beginning mainly in the New Empire, this funerary composition is attested to on the shrouds,
Silvia Einaudi
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Nature in Seclusion. The Monastic Republic of Letters in Southern Germany**
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 215-241, September 2024.Abstract Monasteries were famous for their extensive libraries and richly decorated churches. Less well known are their observatories and their mathematical‐physical collections with telescopes, air pumps, and friction machines. But how did the way of life in the monastery and scientific practices influence each other?
Julia Bloemer
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Journal of Biological Research, 2005 The term “mummy” is thought to be derived from the Persian or Arab word “moumiya”, meaning pitch or bitumen. It likely referred to the black, hard, and resinous substance probably used by the Egyptians in their embalming procedures during the late period
Rosanna Gorini
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Ruch Biblijny i Liturgiczny, 2010 The institution of Synagogue and the synagogue as the local zone of Jewish activities served three basic functions: socio-cultural, religious and educational.
Sylwester Jędrzejewski
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Údolí králů – po králích // The Valley of the Kings – After the kings [PDF]
Pražské Egyptologické Studie, 2017 The article provides an overview of the history of the Valley of the Kings following its abandonment as a royal necropolis at the end of the New Kingdom and the dismant ling and caching of the royal mummies in the Twenty-First Dynasty and early ...
Filip Coppens
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CYSTICERCOSIS IN AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY OF THE LATE PTOLEMAIC PERIOD
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2006 We describe here an ancient case of cysticercosis that was discovered in an Egyptian mummy of a young woman of about 20 years of age who lived in the late Ptolemaic period (second to first centuries b.c.). On removal of the stomach and its rehydration, a cystic lesion in the stomach wall was observed by naked eye.
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The Concept of Robe of Justification and its significance in Ancient Egyptian Religious [PDF]
مجلة کلية الآثار - جامعة القاهرةThere were various connotations in the life of the Ancient Egyptian that expressed the beliefs of the other world. Therefore, the Robes of justificationare among the most important connotations that expressed the Religious and funerary beliefs of the ...
Maryhan Yasser +2 more
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XVIII.—On Two Egyptian Tablets of the Ptolemaic Period [PDF]
ArchaeologiaThe tablets which form the subject of the following communication are two of the most remarkable of those of the Ptolemaic period, which is not rich in inscribed monuments of this kind. There is, indeed, a series of tablets of this period in the British Museum, and others are in the Louvre at Paris.
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