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ABSTRACT Background Museum learning is an important approach to facilitating cross‐disciplinary knowledge integration. To expand the accessibility of museum education and to enhance learning efficiency, virtual museums are aiming to overcome the constraints of time, crowds, and the limited resources of physical venues by providing a more flexible and ...
Yi‐Chun Lu +2 more
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The situla of Psammetik son of Sheshonk at the Egyptian Museum (Cairo CG 3447) [PDF]
This article is a publication of the situla of Psammetik, son of Sheshonk, at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (CG 3447), dating between the late Twenty-Sixth Dynasty to the very beginning of the Thirtieth Dynasty.
Mohamed Gamal RASHED
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Beyond Brunhild: reassessing women in the Fredegar Chronicle
Scholarly consideration of women in the seventh‐century Fredegar chronicle has long been dominated by the author’s hostility towards Brunhild, queen of Austrasia. Statistical analysis of Latin world chronicles before ad 900, however, shows that Fredegar’s representation of women was unusually high within this tradition.
Emily Quigley
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Drilling for powder. Enigmatic limestone fragments explained [PDF]
Limestone blocks with traces of drilling operations, found at several sites in the Memphite necropolis, are still mysterious artefacts. Experiments made by Jean-Philippe Lauer using a hand-drill with a crescent-shaped flint point proved that the ...
Andrzej Ćwiek
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Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac
Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
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A New Concept of “Kim Jong Un Partizan” Discourse and Authoritarian Durability in North Korea
ABSTRACT How does the North Korean regime secure elite loyalty without institutional transparency or material redistribution? While existing studies have examined the use of Partizan narratives under Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, this paper argues that Kim Jong Un introduces a significant discursive shift: the invention of “Kim Jong Un Partizans.” This ...
Sohee Hwang
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Preliminary report on archaeological activities on the Late Period shaft tomb necropolis in Abusir, mainly the tomb of Wahibremeryneith (AW 6) [PDF]
In a group of large shaft tombs situated in the western part of the ancient Egyptian necropolis at Abusir and dating to late Twenty sixth Dynasty or early Twenty seventh Dynasty, a unique embalming cache has been unearthed.
Ladislav Bareš +3 more
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Application of Kubelka–Munk Theory in Jade Color Evaluation
Kubelka–Munk (K/S) spectra of twelve jade samples reveal their wavelength‐dependent optical behaviour. Combined with CIECAM16 colour appearance modelling, these material‐specific optical characteristics were used to investigate the influence of different illuminants and backgrounds on jade colour appearance.
Jinbi Jiang, Qinxin He, Stephen Westland
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Bordering Power: Reinterpreting Three First Cataract Inscriptions of King Merenra
This paper reconsiders three royal inscriptions of King Merenra (Sixth Dynasty) in the region of the First Nile Cataract. They have long been known to scholars but have not received extensive treatment beyond translations.
Oren Siegel +3 more
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ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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