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Forgetting cane grasses: Switching temporal focus to reveal mosaics of Saccharum diversity
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 7, Issue 3, Page 590-602, May 2025.Sugarcane (Saccharum cvs.) is one of the most important cash crops globally. Related varieties and species of cane grasses of the genus Saccharum are also important subsistence crops in the Indo‐Pacific region. Despite the significance of these crops globally and recent advances in genetic characterisation, the histories and geographies of ...
Tim Denham
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Dream Divination in a Context of Social Disruption: Julian’s Vision of the Two Trees
ReligionsThe late Roman discourse on divinatory dreams and their interpretation reflects a context of cultural fragmentation. The political turbulence of the 350s to 360s was due partly to the ongoing external war with the (Persian) Sasanians, but also to the ...
Bronwen Neil
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A Comparative Study of the Relationship Between Humans and God in the Philosophy of Ibn Bajja, Plato, and Farabi [PDF]
Comparative TheologyIn the Zoroastrian religion, marriage has a special importance and position, and every Zoroastrian is obliged to get married and form a family in order to keep the name (nāmagānȋh) and the heart of the family alive.
hasan abasi hossein abadi +1 more
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Evidence of glass bead‐making in the early Islamic Iberian Peninsula
Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 364-379, April 2025.Abstract Glass beads from two Islamic archaeological sites in the Tagus valley in central Spain were selected and analysed by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA‐ICP‐MS), and a subset of samples (n = 6) was analysed for Pb isotopes by multicollector thermal ionization mass spectrometry (MC‐TIMS).
Cristina Boschetti +4 more
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The Northern and Western Borderlands of the Sasanian Empire: Contextualising the Roman/Byzantine and Sasanian Frontier [PDF]
, 2017 This chapter investigates the archaeological landscapes of the frontiers of the Sasanian Empire. Drawing on evidence from current and archived archaeological surveys, in combination with high-resolution remote sensing datasets such as CORONA spy photography, we compare the organisation of settlements and defensive structures of the Sasanian frontier ...
Lawrence, Dan, Wilkinson, Tony J.
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, 2017 The Sasanian Empire (third-seventh centuries) was one of the largest empires of antiquity, stretching from Mesopotamia to modern Pakistan and from Central Asia to the Arabian Peninsula. This mega-empire withstood powerful opponents in the steppe and expanded further in Late Antiquity, whilst the Roman world shrunk in size. Recent research has revealed
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Syria, 2019 During the Sasanian period (224-651), a number of buildings situated in Iran and Mesopotamia with distinct architectural features were decorated with stucco, which was carved, moulded and later painted. The rich repertoire, which is repeated over a long period and in different regions, consists of geometrical patterns, plants as well as a large number ...
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Settlement, environment, and climate change in SW Anatolia: Dynamics of regional variation and the end of Antiquity. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Jacobson MJ +4 more
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, 1994 Sasanian Sealstones is a B.A. thesis completed in 1994 by Catherine Bullock (Demos), who graduated from Near Eastern Studies (now MELC). The thesis was completed under the direction of Professor Guitty Azarpay, as part of a project to catalog and study the Gans Collection of seals, involving multiple undergraduate and graduate researchers throughout ...
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Technological characterization of gold jewellery from the Sogdian tomb of Shi Jun (d. 579 CE) in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2020 Tan P, Yang J, Liu Y, Zheng Y, Yang J.
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