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Latin in medieval Kyiv: the outline of history of a royal family in the context of its international contacts

open access: yesФілологічні студії, 2023
Kyivan Rus’ had extensive political, economic and cultural connections with other European states. Knowledge of foreign languages, the Latin language in particular, was in demand to maintain these connections.
Дана Радван
doaj   +1 more source

ALL THAT GLITTERS: THE MANY OBJECTS OF ROME'S MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATIONS

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 422-452, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This review article examines the various methodologies practiced by Rome's Museum of Civilizations (Museo delle Civiltà) to discuss the contemporary curatorial approaches of traditional ethnographic museums. It adopts a historical and comparative perspective to situate the diverse collections within ongoing debates about art restitution.
Arielle Xena Alterwaite
wiley   +1 more source

Votive Inscription by Aristeis

open access: yesAxon, 2019
A quadrangular silver plaque from Francavilla Marittima (Sybaris), the inscription is bustrophedic and consists in a private votive offering commissioned by Aristeis, a woman, to an unknown deity. The structure of the text and the graphic peculiarities of the letters bring to a chronology about late 7th-early 6th century.
openaire   +1 more source

BOAT‐SHAPED OBJECTS OF LEAD FROM LATE BRONZE AGE HALA SULTAN TEKKE, CYPRUS, AND THE ULUBURUN SHIPWRECK

open access: yesOxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 228-247, August 2025.
Summary This study examines four exceptional lead boat‐shaped objects recovered from the fourteenth‐century BC Chamber Tomb ZZ at the cemetery of the cosmopolitan city of Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus. A closely related lead object was also found in Stratum 1 of City Quarter 4 at Hala Sultan Tekke, dating to the early twelfth century BC.
Peter M. Fischer, Tzveta V. Manolova
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural formalism and spatial language in Belhara [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
When looking at ethnographies of Himalayan societies, one is impressed by the recurrent relevance and importance of spatial notions in cullural domains from shamanism to architecture, from belief systems to everyday behaviour, from religion to ...
Bickel, Balthasar
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Pre‐industrial Use of Bauxite by Late Gothic Goldsmith Masters: Analytical Evidence and Experimental Study

open access: yesChemPlusChem, Volume 90, Issue 6, June 2025.
First analytical evidence and replication of yet undescribed substantial change in gilding technology in the early modern period ‐ the replacement of imported red clay (bole) with locally available bauxite. Proof of its source ‐ Croatian Minjera, according to a unique find of mineral diaspore.
David Hradil   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Историография и методика работы с древнегреческими граффити (Historiography and Methods of Study of Ancient Greek Graffiti

open access: yesМатериалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Крыма, 2019
The article includes two sections. In the first, there are reviewed the Western and Russian literature on ancient Greek graffiti on the table vases, separately from Greece and from the North Pontic Area; shortly from the first publications in “Corpus ...
V.P. Yailenko
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Government centralization in late second and third century A.D. Asia Minor: a working hypothesis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper offers the working hypothesis that increased central government intervention in civic and provincial affairs in the late second- and third-century A.D.
Zuiderhoek, Andries Johan
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We are storytelling apes: Experimenting with new scientific narratives in a time of climate and biodiversity collapse

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 5, Page 1257-1268, May 2025.
Abstract Provoked by a lack of appropriate political action on the global climate and biodiversity crisis, we present a perspective advocating and demonstrating a new plurality in scientific communication methods. Science writing, in being objective and dispassionate, actively seeks to mask empathetic connection and hides curiosities that may exist ...
Karen Anderson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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