The museums of southeast Turkey(Upper Mesopotamia:see Fig.1)contain a wide range of Roman-era funerary monuments with Greek inscriptions,the most common type of which is the stele.They come in many varieties:some are ...
With 196 masterpieces of artworks and artifacts on display,“EncounterMesopotamia:An Exhibition of Antiquities from Ancient Syria”presents a narrative of the history of Syria and China-Syria exchanges along the ancie...
This article results from research conducted under the auspices of the project REPAC"Repetition,Parallelism and Creativity:An Inquiry into the Construction of Meaning in Ancient Mesopotamian Literature and Erudition"(2019-2024,University of Vienna)that has received funding from the European Research Council(ERC)under Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme(Grant agreementno.803060).
1.A bilingual proverb about exotic animals Among the less well-attested collections of proverbs from the Old Babylonian period,one bilingual example stands out as particularly interesting.1The collection is preserved ...
Supported by the China National Science and Technology Major Project(2017ZX05030-001)。
The transformation mechanism of muddy carbonate rock by the coupling of bioturbation and diagenesis was stud-ied based on core,cast thin section and physical property data of Cretaceous strata in the Mesopotamia Basin...
Remote sensing analysis techniques have been investigated extensively,represented by a critical vision,and are used to advance our understanding of the impacts of climate change and variability on the environment.This...
As a child,my classmates and I almost always painted the sky blue in kindergarten and elementary school,and the idea of"blue skies"has become synonymous with happy times now,and good tidings ahead.But how did Ancient ...
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This paper deals with the problem of devastation of cultural heritage by the Islamic State.The great emphasis is put on distinguishing reasons and aims of such behaviours and devastation performed on the ancient Mesop...
Many years ago in the country of the two great rivers people were never sick.There were no dangerous animals.Everybody had enough fish and bread to eat,and everybody spoke the same language.People lived a long time an...