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Monotheistic Pre-Islamic South Arabia
This entry treats the state religion of Pre-Islamic South Arabia from the second half of the fourth century CE until the region was absorbed by the Sassanians in the seventh century CE. During this time, the ruling Himyarites not only expanded South Arabia to its largest territorial extent ever, spanning from modern Yemen to lower Iraq and perhaps evenopenaire +1 more source
The “Upper Paleolithic” of South Arabia
2009The practice of assigning names to archaeological periods in Arabia is inherently problematic. Just as the Arabian subcontinent is the geographic bridge between Africa and Eurasia; similarly, it is wedged between the bifurcation of Eurasian and African taxonomic schema.
Jeffrey I. Rose, Vitaly I. Usik
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Polytheistic Pre-Islamic South Arabia
Although the Bronze Age in ancient South Arabia (modern-day Yemen) is still poorly understood, there is a wealth of archaeological and epigraphic data for reconstructing the region's history from the beginning of the first millennium BCE onward. While epigraphs in the Ancient South Arabian script may date as early as the 11th century BCE, texts useful ...openaire +1 more source
The inscriptions of Ancient South Arabia
2015The chapter provides an overview of the epigraphic production of Ancient South Arabia: provenance of the inscriptions, script and languages, textual typologies, supports, history of decipherment and theories on the origins of the Ancient South Arabian civilization. Examples from the MNAO South Arabian collection are given.
Rossi, Irene
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South Arabia: Arena of Conflict
The Western Political Quarterly, 1969James B. Mayfield, Tom Little
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Archaeological Discoveries in South Arabia
The Geographical Journal, 1959H. T. Norris +3 more
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COVID-19: preparing for superspreader potential among Umrah pilgrims to Saudi Arabia
Lancet, The, 2020Ziad Ahmed Memish
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The Sabaean and other States of South Arabia
1970The Sabaeans were the first Arabians to step within the threshold of civilization. They figure in the late cuneiform inscriptions. The oldest reference to them in Greek literature is in Theophrastus († 288 b.c.), Historia plantarum.1 The southwestern corner of the peninsula was the early home of the Sabaeans.
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