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Talc‐Tempered Pottery From Bala Hissar, Kabul: An Analytical Study
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Potsherds of cooking ware excavated at Bala Hissar archaeological site in Kabul were studied using X‐ray fluorescence (XRF), scanning electron microscope‐energy dispersive X‐ray spectrometry (SEM‐EDS), Raman spectroscopy, X‐ray powder diffraction (XRPD), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and optical microscopy.
Parviz Holakooei +4 more
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Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 5, Page 898-907, October 2026.ABSTRACT In 1837, the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck, Austria, purchased a Roman bronze statue of a maenad from the 2nd century ce with red garnets as facetted eye inlays found near Brixen, Southern Tyrol. These garnets were investigated using optical microscopy, a portable hand‐held and a stationary micro‐X‐ray fluorescence device, as
H. Albert Gilg +3 more
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Bir Sınır Prensi’nin Doğuşu: Guaram ve Kafkas İberya’sında Aristokrasinin Dönüşümü
Ortaçağ Araştırmaları DergisiGünümüz Orta ve Doğu Gürcistan’ında kurulan İberya Krallığı için VI. yüzyıl, siyasî ve dinî olarak kırılmaların yaşandığı uzun bir dönemdi. Zira yüzyılın başında Vakhtang Gorgasali’nin ölümü hem İberya soylularının hem de Sâsânîlerin bölge üzerindeki ...
Gökhan Şanlı
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Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1198-1205, July 2026.Advanced synchrotron‐radiation‐based imaging and spectroscopic techniques were used to investigate the distribution and nature of mercury in numismatic artifacts, with a particular focus on its role in historical counterfeiting practices.This study explores the use of advanced synchrotron radiation (SR)‐based imaging and spectroscopic techniques to ...
Simona Raneri +4 more
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The Provenance of Silver in the Viking‐Age Hoard From Bedale, North Yorkshire
Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue S4, Page S86-S106, July 2026.ABSTRACT The acquisition of silver was a key motive propelling the Viking expansion out of Scandinavia; identifying the sources of Viking silver during the early part of the Viking Age can provide critical insights into the relative significance of western European and eastern, Islamic wealth in the Viking expansion.
Jane Kershaw +5 more
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ReOrienting the Sasanians : East Iran in Late Antiquity /
, 2017 The Sasanians were the last great power to rule over Iran/Persia before the advent of Islam. Through the use of archaeological material, coins, artistic remains, as well as primary sources in the local languages of Central Asia, Rezakhani will look at ...
Rezakhani, Khodadad(viaf)305360161
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The Damhus Hoard: New Insights Into Some of the Earliest Viking Silver Coinage
Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue S4, Page S71-S85, July 2026.ABSTRACT In 2018, a hoard totalling 266 silver Viking Age coins was discovered near Damhus, south of Ribe (Denmark). The coins belong to the early ninth‐century ‘KG 4’ series, with the vast majority, 262 coins, identified as having Face/Forward Looking Deer on the obverse/reverse.
Thomas Birch +8 more
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The soul of the soil: Unearthing a Nation's eco‐empathy through 1200 years of Persian poetry
People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 6, Page 1987-2002, June 2026.Abstract Cultivating a profound sense of connection with the natural world, conceptualized as eco‐empathy, is increasingly recognized as a vital precursor to effective environmental stewardship. While scientific data frame ecological crises, literary traditions offer a unique archive for tracing the history of this empathetic bond. This study positions
Isa Esfandiarpour‐Boroujeni +7 more
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 299-322, May 2026.In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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« Early sasanians’ Claim to Achaemenid Heritage ». Nāme-ye Irān-e Bāstān 1/1, 2001 [paru 2002], pp. 61-73. [PDF]
, 2006 L’A. nuance fortement la thèse désormais célèbre de E. Yarshater et que défend aussi T. Daryaee (c.r. n° 93) selon laquelle la connaissance des Achéménides par les Sassanides relève de la mémoire et du mythe et non de l’histoire, en affirmant : « Yet ...
Boucharlat, Rémy
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