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In search of the genetic footprints of Sumerians: a survey of Y-chromosome and mtDNA variation in the Marsh Arabs of Iraq [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011
Background For millennia, the southern part of the Mesopotamia has been a wetland region generated by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers before flowing into the Gulf.
Olivieri Anna   +9 more
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Create distinctive databases of ancient languages and using a computer vision model to accurately recognize and classify them [PDF]

open access: yesData in Brief
Cuneiform writing, an old art style, allows us to see into the past. Aside from Egyptian hieroglyphs, the cuneiform script is one of the oldest writing systems. It emerged in the second half of the fourth millennium BC.
Elaf A. Saeed   +2 more
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Ludingirra The Sumerian

open access: yesTürk Kütüphaneciliği, 2018
Sumerologist, writer M.İ. Çığ’s work called Ludingirra the Sumerian: Science Fiction for the Past” has been adapted from the information in the tablets which belongs to thousands of years ago. The main character of the book Ludingirra, a writer, teacher,
Demet Işık
doaj   +1 more source

Sumerlilerde Din Anlayışı ve Tanrı Algısı

open access: yesGaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2023
İnsan, yaratılışı gereği inanmaya meyilli bir canlıdır. Bu inanma eyleminin kendisini gösterdiği en önemli yer dinî inançlardır. İnsanlık tarihinin ilk dönemlerinden itibaren doğada gördüğü ve karşısında çaresiz hissettiği olaylara insanüstü bir güç ...
Yıldız Tilbe Etgü, Okay Pekşen
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Sumerians in Light of Eliade’s Concept of Sacredness

open access: yesDarulfunun Ilahiyat, 2023
One of the most important phenomena that constituted the thought, religion, social, and cultural structure of antiquity was ab-origina, which includes concepts such as the prototype of everything being in the past, doing everything as it was done in the ...
Yeşim Dilek
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The Appearance of Bricks in Ancient Mesopotamia [PDF]

open access: yesAthens Journal of History, 2020
Mesopotamia is a region in the Middle East, situated in a basin between two big rivers-the Tigris and the Euphrates. About 5,500 years ago, much earlier than in Egypt, ancient civilization began, one of the oldest in the world. Continuous development was
Kadim Hasson Hnaihen
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Eski Mezopotamya Ticaret Yolları

open access: yesJournal of Universal History Studies, 2020
Güney Mezopotamya’da yaşayan Sumerlerin erken tarihlerde komşu ülkelerle ticarete geçmelerinin sebebi yaşadıkları coğrafyada toprak dışında bir malzemenin olmayışından kaynaklıdır.
Hasan Ali Şahin
doaj   +1 more source

A Journey to Ancient Sumer: The Reconstruction of the Past in Jennifer J. Garrity’s Historical Children’s Novel Secret of the Scribe

open access: yesAnkara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 2018
This paper argues that Jennifer J. Garrity’s historical children’s novel Secret of the Scribe (2008) with its fictional stereotyping of Ancient Sumer and its polytheistic religion undercuts the possibility of the novel to critically engage its child ...
Esra ÇOKER
doaj   +3 more sources

Apprentices and masters - the transmission of ancient goldsmith techniques

open access: yesSubstantia, 2019
A historical overview from Sumerians to the present day on the goldsmith’s craft following two lines: the apprenticeship in the guilds and the ethical and religious value of gold working.
Alessandro Pacini
doaj   +1 more source

Extensive Review of State-of-the-Art Classification Techniques for Cuneiform Symbol Imaging: Open Issues and Challenges

open access: yesIraqi Journal for Computer Science and Mathematics, 2023
The cuneiform script reveals some previously unknown aspects of our past. However, reading ancient clay tablets demands a substantial investment of time and persistent practice over a long period of time.
Farah Maath   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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