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From DAI's very beginning, we have published concise annual reports in the journal Archäologischer Anzeiger. Our first comprehensive annual report in a new, colorful layout appeared as a supplement to the Anzeiger in 2006.

In 2014, the DAI restructured its report processes. Instead of a printed annual report, we now publish two separate, regular formats: our Research E-Papers and our Annual E-Reports.

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Biblioteca Italiana (BibIT)

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Packard Humanities Institute Classical Latin Texts

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Digital Library of Late-antique Latin Texts

Metadata for all content that was on http://www.digiliblt.unipmn.it as of 2017-10-17 has been scraped, processed, and added to the DLL Catalog. The total number of items uploaded at that time was 425. Going forward, the plan is to reconnect to the site on a quarterly basis and process any new records that have been added since the last connection.
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The study of mummified animals from ancient Egypt has often been perceived as being of lesser importance than the study of the human dead; however, this project aims to promote the study of faunal material of this kind by uncovering information relating to these creatures and the ancient culture that preserved them. 

Established in June 2010, the Ancient Egyptian Animal Bio Bank Project is a centralised database and image bank for mummified animal material from museums in the UK and overseas. The concept, developed to contribute to the existing International Ancient Egyptian Mummy Tissue Bank, will combine known records with new research to broaden current knowledge and increase understanding.

Research carried out at the KNH Centre has focused on the application of non-invasive techniques to obtain the maximum amount of information without compromising the integrity of the mummies. However, in some cases we have been able to obtain small samples from damaged areas, which have been subjected to preliminary non-invasive microscopic imaging. These samples are stored in the Tissue Bank facility under environmentally controlled conditions.

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The Center fosters an environment of teaching and scholarly cooperation that is a model in the field of classical archaeology.  The Center is composed of the Nemea Excavation Archives, housed in 7125 Dwinelle Hall, University of California, Berkeley, and the Nemea Archaeological Center in Nemea, Greece, which is composed of the Bowker House complex (residences, common room/kitchen, storage areas and garden), the Thomas J. Long Study Room in the Nemea Archaeological Museum (office/drafting space, research library and archive of original excavation materials) and the Nemean land to which Berkeley holds scientific rights.

All the work and activities of the Nemea Center, including staff support, is financed solely through donations. If you are interested in making a donation please visit our “Donate” website for information.

The latest installment of LionBytes is out!

We've been very busy the last few years with new excavations at the Late Bronze Age cemetery of Aidonia, Greece as well as continued study seasons at both Mycenae and Nemea. This latest iteration of LionBytes outlines some of the recent work conducted by our team. We hope you'll browse the newsletter at your convenience and get in touch with us about exciting events and opportunities in the future! You can access the December 2017 edition of LionBytes by clicking here.

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Egyptology has as its object of study the history, practices, and conceptual categories of a culture that was remarkably prolific in terms of written texts, art, architecture, and other forms of material culture. The knowledge of Egyptologists, archaeologists, linguists, geologists, and all other professionals who are involved in research related to Ancient Egypt reflect the interdisciplinary approach that is needed to make sense of such a wealth of information. The peer-reviewed articles of the UEE are written by the world's leading scholars.

In the coming decade we will continue to build the content of the UEE, while a separate web site, the UEE Full Version, will be available starting in 2010. The full version will have enhanced searches, such as a map-search functionality, alphabetical and subject browsing, in-text links, explanations of terminology for non-professionals, an image archive, and Virtual Reality reconstructions. In addition, a Data-Access Level is under development, which links articles with the results of original research. Information on the development of the UEE Full Version can be found at http://www.uee.ucla.edu.

Late Antiquity

• Ruffini, Giovanni
• 
  

(2018)

Late antique Egypt ran from the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian (284-305 CE) to the Arab conquest of Egypt (641 CE). During this period, Egypt was part of the eastern Roman Empire and was ruled from Constantinople from the founding of that city in the 320s CE. Culturally, Egypt’s elite were part of the wider Roman world, sharing in its classical education. However, several developments marked Egypt’s distinctiveness in this period. These developments included the flourishing of literature in Coptic, the final written form of the native language, and the creation and rapid growth of several forms of...

Microhistory

• Moreno García, Juan Carlos
• 
  

(2018)

Microhistory is a rather ambiguous term, usually referring to the lives, activities, and cultural values of common people, rarely evoked in official sources. In the case of ancient Egypt, both the urban and village spheres provide some clues about the existence, social relations, spiritual expectations, and life conditions of farmers, craftspersons, and “marginal” populations (such as herders), and also about “invisible” elites that played so important a role in the stability of the kingdom. In some instances, exceptional archives (the Ramesside tomb-robbery papyri, Papyrus Turin 1887, recording the...

Radjedef to the Eighth Dynasty

• Bárta, Miroslav
• 
  

(2017)

Our sources for the chronology of the Old Kingdom comprise a mere handful of contemporary written documents, supplemented by radiocarbon dates, some of which have recently been recalibrated by Oxford University. The bulk of historical evidence, deriving primarily from residential cemeteries of the ruling kings and the elite, as well as from provincial sites, shows that during large portions of the Old Kingdom Egypt represented a relatively centralized state with a well-structured administrative system. Until the end of the Fourth Dynasty Egypt’s royal family exercised a role of complete authority...

Metaphor

• Di Biase Dyson, Camilla
• 
  

(2017)

When tracing the epistemological but also thematic development of metaphor studies in Egyptology, what can be seen is a change from a typological perspective, which sought to categorize both motifs and metaphor types, to a more cognitive perspective, which was more interested in the processes behind the linguistic phenomena. In the last few years there has also been increased interest in the development of metaphors in pan-textual as well as multimodal perspective and in the usage and extent of metaphors in all range of phenomena, such as textual, graphemic, and even pictorial media.

Reserve Head

• Mendoza, Barbara
• 
  

(2017)

The enigmatic reserve heads of the Old Kingdom (2670-2168 BCE) in Egypt have been the topic of much discussion and debate since their discovery, primarily on the Giza Plateau, at the turn of the twentieth century. Their purpose and meaning to the ancient Egyptians confounded the first excavators who discovered them (de Morgan, Borchardt, Reisner, and Junker), and have puzzled the later Egyptian art historians, archaeologists, and Egyptologists who have studied them over the past century. This is mainly because the Egyptians did not leave a record for their use or function and because the heads were...

History of Egypt in Palestine

• Cohen, Susan
• 
  

(2016)

Egyptian interactions and contact with Palestine began as early as the fourth millennium BCE, and continued, in varying forms and at times far more intensively than others, until the conquest of the ancient world by Alexander the Great. Numerous data—textual, material, archaeological—found in both Egyptian and southern Levantine contexts illustrate the diverse spectrum of interaction and contact between the two regions, which ranged from colonialism, to imperial expansion, to diplomatic relations, to commerce. By virtue of geographic proximity, economic interests, and occasionally political...

Ration System

• Vymazalova, Hana
• 
  

(2016)

The distribution of rations can be found in documents from different period of the Egyptian history but the general features of the ration system is not easy to trace. Most of the sources are the more or less fragmentary lists of wages/payments that reflect various conditions, such as status of the recipients, period to which the payment corresponds etc, that are not always known to us. Other documents provide us with categories of allowances ascribed to the workmen and officials who participated on the same project. A few traces of a systematic approach can be recognized in the evidence, for instance...

Meroitic

• Rilly, Claude
• 
  

(2016)

The Meroitic language is known from more than two thousands inscriptions found in the northern part of Sudan and in Egyptian Nubia. Although it was written only during the Kingdom of Meroe (300 BC – AD 350), the language is already attested in Egyptian transcriptions of personal names from the second millennium BC on. Meroitic was written in two scripts, cursive and hieroglyphic, both derived from Egyptian scripts. The system is alphasyllabic and uses twenty-three signs plus a word-divider made of two or three dots. The scripts were deciphered in 1907-1911 by F. Ll. Griffith, but knowledge of the...

Second Intermediate Period

• Ilin-Tomich, Alexander
• 
  

(2016)

In the Second Intermediate Period (late 13th to 17th Dynasty), the territories that had been ruled by the centralized Egyptian state—including Lower Nubia—were divided between the kingdom of Kerma, the Theban kingdom, the kingdom of Avaris, and possibly other little known political entities. A gap in the written documentation calls for a wide use of sigillographic and archaeological evidence in the reconstruction of the history of this period. Material culture, art, and administration developed independently in different parts of Egypt due to a lack of a centralized state. In the Theban kingdom, the...

Traditional Egyptian I (Dynamics)

• Vernus, Pascal
• 
  

(2016)

The problem of the phenomenon referred to as égyptien de tradition(Traditional Egyptian) derives from a basic and long-made observation: a great many texts from ancient Egypt implement an obviously anachronistic and partly artificial language, reflecting elements of earlier stages of Egyptian in varying proportions and degrees while also reflecting elements of the contemporary language. Texts continued to be written in égyptien de tradition, either on easy-to-handle supports such as papyri, tablets, and ostraca, or on durable objects and monuments, until the end of Pharaonic civilization.

Ba

• Janák, Jíří
• 
  

(2016)

The ba was often written with the sign of a saddle-billed stork or a human-headed falcon and translated into modern languages as the “soul.” It counts among key Egyptian religious terms and concepts, since it described one of the individual components or manifestations in the ancient Egyptian view of both human and divine beings. The notion of the ba itself encompassed many different aspects, spanning from the manifestation of divine powers to the impression that one makes on the world. The complexity of this term also reveals important aspects of the nature of and changes within ancient Egyptian religion.

Tell el-Amarna

• Stevens, Anna
• 
  

(2016)

Tell el-Amarna is situated in middle Egypt and is the location of the New Kingdom city of Akhetaten, founded by Akhenaten in c. 1347 BCE as the cult home for the Aten. Occupied only briefly, it is our most complete example of an ancient Egyptian city, at which a contemporaneous urban landscape of cult and ceremonial buildings, palaces, houses, cemeteries, and public spaces has been exposed. It is an invaluable source for the study of both Akhenaten’s reign and of ancient Egyptian urbanism. The site has an extensive excavation history, and work continues there today.

Traditional Egyptian II (Ptolemaic, Roman)

• Engsheden, Ake
• 
  

(2016)

From 404 BCE - 394 CE hieroglyphic texts were in general composed in the high-status language variety termed Traditional Egyptian. This was used exclusively in religious and sacerdotal contexts and is as such opposed to Demotic, which served both as a spoken and as a written language. Traditional Egyptian is a reflex of how the late scribes perceived the classical language. The result is a morphologically impoverished Egyptian (in comparison with the classical language), in combination with a phonology that corresponds largely to Demotic. Traditional Egyptian served as a vehicle for many new...

Late Antiquity

• Ruffini, Giovanni
• 
  

(2018)

Late antique Egypt ran from the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian (284-305 CE) to the Arab conquest of Egypt (641 CE). During this period, Egypt was part of the eastern Roman Empire and was ruled from Constantinople from the founding of that city in the 320s CE. Culturally, Egypt’s elite were part of the wider Roman world, sharing in its classical education. However, several developments marked Egypt’s distinctiveness in this period. These developments included the flourishing of literature in Coptic, the final written form of the native language, and the creation and rapid growth of several forms of...

Microhistory

• Moreno García, Juan Carlos
• 
  

(2018)

Microhistory is a rather ambiguous term, usually referring to the lives, activities, and cultural values of common people, rarely evoked in official sources. In the case of ancient Egypt, both the urban and village spheres provide some clues about the existence, social relations, spiritual expectations, and life conditions of farmers, craftspersons, and “marginal” populations (such as herders), and also about “invisible” elites that played so important a role in the stability of the kingdom. In some instances, exceptional archives (the Ramesside tomb-robbery papyri, Papyrus Turin 1887, recording the...

Radjedef to the Eighth Dynasty

• Bárta, Miroslav
• 
  

(2017)

Our sources for the chronology of the Old Kingdom comprise a mere handful of contemporary written documents, supplemented by radiocarbon dates, some of which have recently been recalibrated by Oxford University. The bulk of historical evidence, deriving primarily from residential cemeteries of the ruling kings and the elite, as well as from provincial sites, shows that during large portions of the Old Kingdom Egypt represented a relatively centralized state with a well-structured administrative system. Until the end of the Fourth Dynasty Egypt’s royal family exercised a role of complete authority...

Metaphor

• Di Biase Dyson, Camilla
• 
  

(2017)

When tracing the epistemological but also thematic development of metaphor studies in Egyptology, what can be seen is a change from a typological perspective, which sought to categorize both motifs and metaphor types, to a more cognitive perspective, which was more interested in the processes behind the linguistic phenomena. In the last few years there has also been increased interest in the development of metaphors in pan-textual as well as multimodal perspective and in the usage and extent of metaphors in all range of phenomena, such as textual, graphemic, and even pictorial media.

Reserve Head

• Mendoza, Barbara
• 
  

(2017)

The enigmatic reserve heads of the Old Kingdom (2670-2168 BCE) in Egypt have been the topic of much discussion and debate since their discovery, primarily on the Giza Plateau, at the turn of the twentieth century. Their purpose and meaning to the ancient Egyptians confounded the first excavators who discovered them (de Morgan, Borchardt, Reisner, and Junker), and have puzzled the later Egyptian art historians, archaeologists, and Egyptologists who have studied them over the past century. This is mainly because the Egyptians did not leave a record for their use or function and because the heads were...

History of Egypt in Palestine

• Cohen, Susan
• 
  

(2016)

Egyptian interactions and contact with Palestine began as early as the fourth millennium BCE, and continued, in varying forms and at times far more intensively than others, until the conquest of the ancient world by Alexander the Great. Numerous data—textual, material, archaeological—found in both Egyptian and southern Levantine contexts illustrate the diverse spectrum of interaction and contact between the two regions, which ranged from colonialism, to imperial expansion, to diplomatic relations, to commerce. By virtue of geographic proximity, economic interests, and occasionally political...

Ration System

• Vymazalova, Hana
• 
  

(2016)

The distribution of rations can be found in documents from different period of the Egyptian history but the general features of the ration system is not easy to trace. Most of the sources are the more or less fragmentary lists of wages/payments that reflect various conditions, such as status of the recipients, period to which the payment corresponds etc, that are not always known to us. Other documents provide us with categories of allowances ascribed to the workmen and officials who participated on the same project. A few traces of a systematic approach can be recognized in the evidence, for instance...

Meroitic

• Rilly, Claude
• 
  

(2016)

The Meroitic language is known from more than two thousands inscriptions found in the northern part of Sudan and in Egyptian Nubia. Although it was written only during the Kingdom of Meroe (300 BC – AD 350), the language is already attested in Egyptian transcriptions of personal names from the second millennium BC on. Meroitic was written in two scripts, cursive and hieroglyphic, both derived from Egyptian scripts. The system is alphasyllabic and uses twenty-three signs plus a word-divider made of two or three dots. The scripts were deciphered in 1907-1911 by F. Ll. Griffith, but knowledge of the...

Second Intermediate Period

• Ilin-Tomich, Alexander
• 
  

(2016)

In the Second Intermediate Period (late 13th to 17th Dynasty), the territories that had been ruled by the centralized Egyptian state—including Lower Nubia—were divided between the kingdom of Kerma, the Theban kingdom, the kingdom of Avaris, and possibly other little known political entities. A gap in the written documentation calls for a wide use of sigillographic and archaeological evidence in the reconstruction of the history of this period. Material culture, art, and administration developed independently in different parts of Egypt due to a lack of a centralized state. In the Theban kingdom, the...

Traditional Egyptian I (Dynamics)

• Vernus, Pascal
• 
  

(2016)

The problem of the phenomenon referred to as égyptien de tradition(Traditional Egyptian) derives from a basic and long-made observation: a great many texts from ancient Egypt implement an obviously anachronistic and partly artificial language, reflecting elements of earlier stages of Egyptian in varying proportions and degrees while also reflecting elements of the contemporary language. Texts continued to be written in égyptien de tradition, either on easy-to-handle supports such as papyri, tablets, and ostraca, or on durable objects and monuments, until the end of Pharaonic civilization.

Ba

• Janák, Jíří
• 
  

(2016)

The ba was often written with the sign of a saddle-billed stork or a human-headed falcon and translated into modern languages as the “soul.” It counts among key Egyptian religious terms and concepts, since it described one of the individual components or manifestations in the ancient Egyptian view of both human and divine beings. The notion of the ba itself encompassed many different aspects, spanning from the manifestation of divine powers to the impression that one makes on the world. The complexity of this term also reveals important aspects of the nature of and changes within ancient Egyptian religion.

Tell el-Amarna

• Stevens, Anna
• 
  

(2016)

Tell el-Amarna is situated in middle Egypt and is the location of the New Kingdom city of Akhetaten, founded by Akhenaten in c. 1347 BCE as the cult home for the Aten. Occupied only briefly, it is our most complete example of an ancient Egyptian city, at which a contemporaneous urban landscape of cult and ceremonial buildings, palaces, houses, cemeteries, and public spaces has been exposed. It is an invaluable source for the study of both Akhenaten’s reign and of ancient Egyptian urbanism. The site has an extensive excavation history, and work continues there today.

Traditional Egyptian II (Ptolemaic, Roman)

• Engsheden, Ake
• 
  

(2016)

From 404 BCE - 394 CE hieroglyphic texts were in general composed in the high-status language variety termed Traditional Egyptian. This was used exclusively in religious and sacerdotal contexts and is as such opposed to Demotic, which served both as a spoken and as a written language. Traditional Egyptian is a reflex of how the late scribes perceived the classical language. The result is a morphologically impoverished Egyptian (in comparison with the classical language), in combination with a phonology that corresponds largely to Demotic. Traditional Egyptian served as a vehicle for many new...

Violence

• Muhlestein, Kerry
• 
  

(2015)

Throughout time, Egyptian sources display divergent attitudes towards violence expressing the belief that some situations of violence were positive and to be encouraged, while others were to be avoided. Sanctioned violence could be employed for a variety of reasons—the severity of which ranged from inflicting blows to gruesome death. Violence was part of the preternatural realm, notably as Egyptians attempted to thwart potential violence in the afterlife. While the average Egyptian was supposed to eschew violence, kings and their representatives were expected to engage in violent acts in many...

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Life Expectancy

• Zakrzewski, Sonia
• 
  

(2015)

The analysis of life expectancy and longevity is one approach to analysing diversity in the population of ancient Egypt. It is, however, important to understand the difficulties in such calculations and in the data from which such calculations are derived. Adult age is difficult to determine either from documentary or biological sources, so average age-at-death is particularly hard to determine. This discussion explores the issues surrounding demography, the potential sources for such data, and suggests ways that life expectancy in Egypt might be assessed and integrated with broader archaeological and Egyptological...

Persian Period

• Klotz, David
• 
  

(2015)

In the last two centuries before the arrival of Alexander the Great, Persia invaded Egypt twice and administered it as a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire. Although the Ptolemies later demonized the Persians, and most traces of their rule were systematically removed, the history of this fascinating period can be reconstructed thanks to written sources from different languages (hieroglyphic, Demotic, Aramaic, Old Persian, Greek) and the multicultural archaeological record. These periods of foreign domination helped solidify Egypt's national identity during the intervening Late Period (Dynasties 28-30) and set the...

Cognitive Linguistics

• Nyord, Rune
• 
  

(2015)

Cognitive linguistics is an influential branch of linguistics, which has played an increasing role in different areas of Egyptology over the last couple of decades. Concepts from cognitive linguistics have been especially influential in the study of determinatives/classifiers in the hieroglyphic script, but they have also proven useful to elucidate a number of other questions, both narrowly linguistic and more broadly cultural historical.

Pyramid Age: Huni to Radjedef

• Bussmann, Richard
• 
  

(2015)

The early to mid-4^th Dynasty (c. 2600-2500 BCE) stands out as a peak of monumentality in the early historical periods of Pharaonic Egypt. Within 100 years, Sneferu, Khufu, and Radjedef built pyramids on an unprecedented scale at Maidum, Dahshur, Giza, and Abu Rawash. Pyramid construction absorbed enormous resources and reflects a new quality of large-scale organization and centralization. Pyramids are the nucleus of Old Kingdom court cemeteries. The early 4^th Dynasty examples were a template for...

Amarna Period

• Williamson, Jacquelyn
• 
  

(2015)

The reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten/Amenhotep IV is controversial. Although substantial evidence for this period has been preserved, it is inconclusive on many important details. Nonetheless, the revolutionary nature of Akhenaten’s rule is salient to the modern student of ancient Egypt. The king’s devotion to and promotion of only one deity, the sun disk Aten, is a break from traditional Egyptian religion. Many theories developed about this era are often influenced by the history of its rediscovery and by recognition that Akhenaten’s immediate successors rejected his rule.

Akkadian from Egypt

• Müller, Matthias
• 
  

(2015)

Akkadian, an ancient Semitic language from Mesopotamia written in the cuneiform script, wasemployed as a diplomatic lingua franca between the major powers of the Late Bronze Age.Akkadian from Egypt defines the language of the Akkadian texts that originated in Egypt. Thesewere probably written by Egyptian scribes. On various linguistic levels ranging from phonology tomorpho-syntax, Akkadian from Egypt differs from contemporary varieties of Akkadian. In severalcases, these differences can be analyzed as probably representing interferences with Egyptian, thenative language of the scribes. Rather than as...

Transition 18th–19th dynasty

• Manassa Darnell, Colleen
• 
  

(2015)

The transition between the 18th and 19th Dynasties, a period beginning with the reign of Aye and concluding with the reign of Sety I, represents the conclusion to the tumultuous Amarna Period and the beginning of the stability and prosperity of the following Ramesside Period. The rule of individuals coming from non-royal families—Aye, Horemheb, and Ramesses I—gives way to a strong dynastic succession with Sety I. Limited monumental construction during the short reigns of Aye and Ramesses I can be contrasted with the extensive building at Karnak during the reign of Horemheb and the...

Computational Linguistics in Egyptology

• Rosmorduc, Serge
• 
  

(2015)

Computer-assisted approaches to text and language, referred to as computational linguistics, represent a developing field in Egyptology. One of the main concerns has been and continues to be the encoding of hieroglyphic signs for computers. The historical standard in this respect is the Manuel de Codage; a Unicode encoding has also been recently developed. Computer-assisted approaches also provide helpful tools notably for creating, annotating, and exploiting text databases. After pioneering work in the 1960s, a number of large text databases have been developed since the 1990s, for example, the Thesaurus...

Old Egyptian

• Allen, James
• 
  

(2015)

Old Egyptian is the earliest stage of the ancient Egyptian language that is preserved in extensive texts. It represents a dialect as well as a historical stage of the language, showing grammatical similarities with and distinctions from later ones. One particular issue in studying Old Egyptian lies in the uneven nature of the Old Kingdom written record, which mostly consists of texts relating to the funerary domain.

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Popko, Lutz: History-Writing in Ancient Egypt, 2014
Raue, Dietrich: Sanctuary of Heqaib, 2014
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Harrell, James A.: Ornamental Stones, 2013
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De Meyer, Marleen; Minas-Nerpel, Martina: Shenhur, Temple of, 2012
DuQuesne, Terence: Jmjwt, 2012
Grajetzki, Wolfram: Qau el-Kebir, 2012
Harrell, James A.: Building Stones, 2012
Harrell, James: Gemstones, 2012
Harrell, James A.: Utilitarian Stones, 2012
Katary, Sally: Land Tenure (to the End of the Ptolemaic Period), 2012
Kockelmann, Holger: Philae, 2012
Kucharek, Andrea: Gebel el-Silsila, 2012
Lippert, Sandra: Law Courts, 2012
Lippert, Sandra: Law: Definitions and Codification, 2012
Loprieno, Antonio: Slavery and Servitude, 2012
Milde, Henk: Shabtis, 2012
Moreno Garcia, Juan Carlos: Deir el-Gabrawi, 2012
Moreno Garcia, Juan Carlos: Households, 2012
Pantalacci, Laure: Coptos, 2012
Riggs, Christina; Baines, John: Ethnicity, 2012
Roth, Silke: Harem, 2012
Stadler, Martin A: Thoth, 2012
Budde, Dagmar: Epithets, Divine, 2011
Emery, Virginia L.: Mud-Brick Architecture, 2011
Hallof, Jochen: Esna, 2011
Hallof, Jochen: Esna-North, 2011
Katary, Sally: Taxation, 2011
Kockelmann, Holger: Birth House (Mammisi), 2011
Kuhlmann, Klaus P.: Throne, 2011
Laboury, Dimitri: Amarna Art, 2011
Manassa, Colleen: El-Mo’alla to El-Deir, 2011
McClain, Brett: Cosmogony (Late to Ptolemaic and Roman Periods), 2011
Millet, Marie; Masson, Aurélia: Karnak: Settlements, 2011
Moreno Garcia, Juan Carlos: Village, 2011
Nicholson, Paul: Glass Working, Use and Discard, 2011
Schulz, Regine: Block Statue, 2011
Sweeney, Deborah: Sex and Gender, 2011
Toivari-Viitala, Jaana: Deir el-Medina (Development), 2011
Zivie-Coche, Christiane: Foreign Deities in Egypt, 2011
Bloxam, Elizabeth: Quarrying and Mining (Stone), 2010
Borg, Barbara E.: Painted Funerary Portraits, 2010
Brand, Peter: Reuse and Restoration, 2010
Brand, Peter: Usurpation of Monuments, 2010
Budde, Dagmar: Child Deities, 2010
Darnell, John: Opet Festival, 2010
Guilhou, Nadine: Myth of the Heavenly Cow, 2010
Hays, Harold: Funerary Rituals (Pharaonic Period), 2010
Hikade, Thomas: Hiw (Predynastic), 2010
Hikade, Thomas: Stone Tool Production, 2010
Ikram, Salima: Mummification, 2010
Kahl, Jochem: Archaism, 2010
Laboury, Dimitri: Portrait versus Ideal Image, 2010
Lazaridis, Nikolaos: Education and Apprenticeship, 2010
Leprohon, Ronald: Patterns of Royal Name-giving, 2010
Lucarelli, Rita: Demons (benevolent and malevolent), 2010
Meyer-Dietrich, Erika: Recitation, Speech Acts, and Declamation, 2010
Nicholson, Paul: Kilns and Firing Structures, 2010
Poo, Mu-Chou: Liquids in Temple Ritual, 2010
Riggs, Christina: Body, 2010
Riggs, Christina: Funerary rituals (Ptolemaic and Roman Periods), 2010
Spencer, Neal: Shrine, 2010
Spieser, Cathie: Cartouche, 2010
Sullivan, Elaine: Karnak: Development of the Temple of Amun-Ra, 2010
Teeter, Emily: Feathers, 2010
von Lieven, Alexandra: Deified Humans, 2010
Campagno, Marcelo P: Kinship and Family Relations, 2009
Coppens, Filip: Temple Festivals of the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods, 2009
Dodson, Aidan: Rituals Related to Animal Cults, 2009
Emery, Virginia L.: Mud-Brick, 2009
Gillam, Robyn: Drama, 2009
Haring, Ben: Economy, 2009
Harvey, Julia: Wooden Statuary, 2009
Huyge, Dirk: Rock Art, 2009
Leach, Bridget: Papyrus Manufacture, 2009
Manniche, Lise: Perfume, 2009
Meyer-Dietrich, Erika: Dance, 2009
Nicholson, Paul: Faience Technology, 2009
Nicholson, Paul T.: Pottery Production, 2009
Phillips, Jacke S.: Ostrich Eggshell, 2009
Pinch, Geraldine; Waraksa, Elizabeth A.: Votive Practices, 2009
Roth, Silke: Queen, 2009
Shortland, Andrew: Glass Production, 2009
Smith, Mark: Democratization of the Afterlife, 2009
Stevens, Anna: Domestic religious practices, 2009
Stevenson, Alice: Palettes, 2009
Stevenson, Alice: Predynastic Burials, 2009
Veldmeijer, André J.: Cordage Production, 2009
Vinson, Steve: Seafaring, 2009
Wengrow, David: Predynastic Art, 2009
Cooney, Kathlyn M: Scarab, 2008
Coulon, Laurent: Famine, 2008
Cruz-Uribe, Eugene: Graffiti (Figural), 2008
Enmarch, Roland: Theodicy, 2008
Exell, Karen: Ancestor Bust, 2008
Lazaridis, Nikolaos: Ethics, 2008
Luiselli, Michela: Personal Piety (modern theories related to), 2008
Moreno García, Juan Carlos: Estates (Old Kingdom), 2008
Muhlestein, Kerry: Execration Ritual, 2008
Naguib, Saphinaz-Amal: Survivals of Pharaonic Religious Practices in Contemporary Coptic Christianity., 2008
Servajean, Frédéric: Duality, 2008
Smith, Mark: Osiris and the Deceased, 2008
Stadler, Martin: Judgment after Death (Negative Confession), 2008
Stadler, Martin: Procession, 2008
Stevenson, Alice: Mace, 2008
Veldmeijer, André J.: Leatherworking, 2008
Waraksa, Elizabeth: Female Figurines (Pharaonic Period), 2008
Wilkinson, Richard H.: Anthropomorphic Deities, 2008
Zivie-Coche, Christiane: Late Period Temples, 2008

The Wonders of the ADS, is a digital exhibition dedicated to highlighting the outstanding digital data held in the ADS archive.

The exhibition features many different data types held in the archive, from digital photography and drawings, to 3D models and videos. The exhibition also features the different facets of archaeological investigation, from different thematic time periods to different methodological approaches.

We invite you to explore the exhibition and take a journey to discover data you didn't know we held!

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Each fall the Freer and Sackler Galleries publish, with the University of Michigan, a journal of the latest research in art of the Middle East and Asia. Titled Ars Orientalis, the journal is a collection of scholarship that crosses academic disciplines and aims to connect researchers, institutions, and ideas using one central theme per volume.

Thanks to a digitization effort made possible with help from Smithsonian Libraries and the Internet Archive, we can now offer Ars Orientalis volumes 1 to 41 free of charge to viewers worldwide. Flip through these pages online, or download files to your digital library for later reading.

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Volume 47: New Research on Dress across Asia
Dress intersects with everyday life in a way that few areas of art history do. This intersection with the quotidian, and with popular culture throughout history, provides the student of dress with a valuable vantage point from which to address a range of questions.
Edited by Nancy Micklewright, Ars Orientalis 47 considers key issues in the study of dress in general, and dress in Asia more specifically. These include the divide between the timelessness of “traditional” dress and the fast-paced changes of what we call “fashion”; the categories of evidence that come into play; the ways in which Orientalism has effected the study of dress; and contemporary approaches to the field.

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西洋古典論集
Classical Studies
発行: 京都大学西洋古典研究会 (京都大学文学研究科西洋古典研究室)

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Didaskalia (διδασκαλία) is the term used since ancient times to describe the work a playwright did to teach his chorus and actors the play.  The official records of the dramatic festivals in Athens were the διδασκαλίαι.  Didaskalia now furthers the scholarship of the ancient performance.

Didaskalia is an English-language, online publication about the performance of Greek and Roman drama, dance, and music.  We publish double blind, peer-reviewed scholarship on performance as well as reviews of the professional activity of artists and scholars who work on ancient drama.

We welcome submissions on any aspect of the field, and we provide a uniquely friendly venue for publishing sound, image, and video evidence.  If you would like your work to be reviewed, please write to editor@didaskalia.net at least three weeks in advance of the performance date.  We also seek interviews with practitioners and opinion pieces.

Volume 13 (2016–2017)

13.15	Valedictory from the Editor Amy R. Cohen
13.14	Review - Sophocles’ Electra at the Dallas Theater Center Thomas E. Jenkins
13.13	Imperial Pantomime and Satoshi Miyagi’s Medea William A. Johnson
13.12	Review - Two Tragic Worlds of Soldiers: Not Man Apart Physical Theatre Ensemble’s Ajax in Iraq Yuko Kurahashi
13.11	Gamel Panel - The Authenticity of Mary-Kay Gamel Ruby Blondell
13.10	Gamel Panel - Sophocles after Ferguson: Antigone in St. Louis, 2014 Timothy Moore
13.09	Gamel Panel - Navigating Tricky Topics: The Benefits of Performance Pedagogy Christopher Bungard
13.08	Gamel Panel - Raising the Stakes: Mary-Kay Gamel and the Academic Stage Amy R. Cohen
13.07	Gamel Panel - Performance, Politics, Pedagogy: a Tribute to Mary-Kay Gamel C.W. Marshall
13.06	Conversation - Deus Ex Machina at the Long Center for Performing Arts, Austin, Texas Liz Fisher, Robert Matney, Paul Woodruff, Lucia Woodruff
13.05	Review - 52nd Season of Classical Plays at the Greek Theatre in Syracuse: Sophocles’ Electra, Euripides’ Alcestis Caterina Barone
13.04	Review - Rhesus at Aristotle's Lyceum Scott Andrew Cally
13.03	Review - Trachiniae at Minor Latham Playhouse, New York Claire Catenaccio
13.02	Review - Sophocles’ Philoctetes at Aquila Theatre Tony Tambasco
13.01	Review - Apollonius’ Argonautika at Gustavus Adolphus College Eric Dugdale and William Riihiluoma

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The “Comité international pour l’Égyptologie” (CIPEG) is one of 30 International Committees of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). The scope of CIPEG deals with the international representation of Egyptian collections and museums in a worldwide community. CIPEG provides a unique panel for museum professionals and scholars who deal with Ancient Egyptian heritage.

The Mission of CIPEG is to promote collaboration among colleagues for the study, preservation, and presentation of Egyptian collections, monuments and sites. In addition, it supports collections of Egyptian art and archaeology, including the heritage of the Ancient Sudan, with a special focus on smaller collections, within the framework of ICOM and in close co-operation with the International Association of Egyptologists (IAE).

CIPEG also seeks to promote collaboration among museums, universities and research institutes as well as supplying partnership opportunities, sharing resources, knowledge and experience for an international forum, and holding an annual conference. CIPEG frames resolutions and policies to promote actions and, if requested, advises museum staff, scholars or institutions.

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Die Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung werden seit 1876 jährlich von der Abteilung Athen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts herausgegeben.

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The Hieratic Studies Online (HSO) is a peer-reviewed, academic journal dedicated to presenting research on all aspects of hieratic and cursive hieroglyphs, for example:

• writing materials and techniques
• the system of the Ancient Egyptian cursive scripts
• development and interconnections between cursive and monumental scripts
• palaeography of signs from single scribes, texts, periods, or regions
• any sources of handwritings and hieratic inscriptions
• text editions
• new readings
• manufacturing of and copying features
• layout, extratextual notes, corrections, additions, marginalia

HSO is open-access: All articles in this journal can be viewed and downloaded free-of-charge at the Gutenberg Open (University Bibliography Open Access Publications) platform.

HSO has an open format: Accepted papers will be published as soon as possible.  We recommend that you use the CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 DE license (if necessary, however, it is possible to use other license formats). There is no defined publication schedule or deadlines. With support of the authors or editors substantial monographs or proceedings may also be integrated in the publication process.

HSO offers scholars the opportunity to include a large number of colour images where appropriate to the article.

HSO is edited by Svenja A. Gülden, Kyra van der Moezel and Ursula Verhoeven from the project „Altägyptische Kursivschriften“ at the Mainz academy of Sciences and Literature.

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Ein „nouveau Möller“? Grenzen und Möglichkeiten. Ein working paper zum gleichnamigen Vortrag Svenja A. Gülden Though more than 100 years old Möller’s Hieratische Paläographie still is the standard reference work for palaeographic questions. Parts of this palaeography could be complemented and replaced by studies concentrating on specific times spans or sources, but a systematic study of the hieratic script covering all time spans of Egyptian history is– for many reasons – still missing. ‚Ein „nouveau Möller“? Grenzen und Möglichkeiten’ was the title of a paper given at the conference „Ägyptologische ,Binsen‘-Weisheiten“ I, at Mainz in 2011 – this working paper sums up the different aspects discussed in that paper. urn:nbn:de:hebis:77-publ-557584

Son bulletin, le BABELAO, est conçu comme une revue à vocation scientifique. La revue couvre le domaine de l’Orientalisme sous ses différentes facettes : philologie, paléographie, histoire du monde ancien et oriental, histoire des langues et des littératures comparées, édition des textes, etc. Son Comité de rédaction dont le recrutement est international regroupe des chercheurs qui sont à même d’assurer une expertise dans tous les domaines requis. Les membres sont: Alessandro Bausi (Hambourg), Anne Boud'hors (Paris), Antoine Cavigneaux (Genève), Sabino Chialà (Bose), Bernard Coulie (Louvain-la-Neuve), Alain Delattre (Bruxelles), Didier Devauchelle (Lille), Johannes Den Heijer (Louvain-la-Neuve), Jean-Charles Ducène (Bruxelles), J.Keith Elliott (Leeds), Jean-Daniel Macchi (Genève), Michael Marx (Berlin), Claude Obsomer (Louvain-la-Neuve), Agnès Ouzounian (Paris), Tamara Pataridzé (Louvain-la-Neuve), Paul-Hubert Poirier (Québec), Véronique Somers (Paris, Louvain-la-Neuve), David Taylor (Oxford) et Anton Vojtenko (Moscou).

Le BABELAO est référencé dans AWOL (The Ancient World Online), RHE (Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique), Elenchus Bibliographicus (Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses)

Some 630 lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum represent production centers that were active across the ancient Mediterranean world between 800 B.C. and A.D. 800. Notable for their marvelous variety—from simple clay saucers that held just oil and a wick to elaborate figural lighting fixtures in bronze and precious metals—the Getty lamps display a number of unprecedented shapes and decors. Most were made in Roman workshops, which met the ubiquitous need for portable illumination in residences, public spaces, religious sanctuaries, and the grave. The omnipresent oil lamp is a font of popular imagery, illustrating myths, nature, and the activities and entertainments of daily life. Presenting a largely unpublished collection, this extensive catalogue is an invaluable resource for specialists in lychnology, art history, and archaeology alike.

Contents

• Director’s Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations and Notes to Readers
• Introduction
• Map

• Catalogue

  • Typological Classification
  1. Phoenico-Punic Clay Saucer Lamps
  2. Greek and Hellenistic Clay Lamps
  3. Roman-Period Clay Lamps
  4. Metal Lamps

• Indices

  • Index of Iconography
  • Index of Signatures and Inscriptions
  • Index of Donors and Vendors
  • Index of Place Names
  • Concordance of Identification Numbers
• Bibliography
• About the Authors
• About

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Heritage is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal of cultural and natural heritage science published quarterly by MDPI. The publication focuses on knowledge, conservation and management of cultural and natural heritage by sensing technologies, novel methods, best practices and policies.

Scopes

With the inclusion of Articles, Reviews, Perspectives and Communications, Heritage offers an appropriate format for any length or type of submission.
The journal will be organized in six subsections as:

• Sensing technologies for diagnostics and monitoring of architectural and artistic heritage
• Innovative solutions and best practices for protection of natural heritage
• Innovation and Research in the field of Conservation and Recovery of archaeological and architectural heritage
• Geoscience and earth observation technologies for Heritage risk assessment and mitigation and the study of human past
• ICT for CH management and Fruition
• Policies and human science contributions for increasing the cultural and economic role of CH in the society

Heritage, Volume 1 (2018) 

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Open AccessArticleAssessing the Main Frequencies of Modern and Historical Buildings Using Ambient Noise Recordings: Case Studies in the Historical Cities of Crete (Greece)

by Margarita Moisidi, Filippos Vallianatos and Maria Rosaria Gallipoli

Heritage2018, 1(1), 171-188; https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage1010012

Received: 21 June 2018 / Revised: 2 August 2018 / Accepted: 10 August 2018 / Published: 15 August 2018

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Monitoring seismic structural response is an essential issue in earthquake risk assessments and mitigation studies for monumental buildings in order to undertake earthquake disaster management. This study aims at identifying the resonant frequency of soil and modern and historical buildings in three major

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Open AccessTechnical NoteNon-Invasive Moisture Detection for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage

by Pier Matteo Barone and Carlotta Ferrara

Heritage2018, 1(1), 163-170; https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage1010011

Received: 23 July 2018 / Revised: 4 August 2018 / Accepted: 8 August 2018 / Published: 10 August 2018

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Moisture damage is the most critical issue regarding the preservation and integrity of cultural heritage sites. The electromagnetic (EM) sensitivity to the presence of moisture, in both soils and structural materials, is a well-known phenomenon. Thereby, studying the EM response to the presence

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Open AccessArticleCultural Routes in Kynouria of Arcadia: Geospatial Database Design and Software Development for Web Mapping of the Spatio-Historical Information

by Lampros Boukouvalas, Gregory Grigorakakis and Andreas Tsatsaris

Heritage2018, 1(1), 142-162; https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage1010010

Received: 19 June 2018 / Revised: 16 July 2018 / Accepted: 16 July 2018 / Published: 20 July 2018

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On the occasion of Kynouria and in order to achieve the protection and projection of antiquities, a web-based model is proposed for highlighting individual monuments and archaeological sites, having in mind the historical and archaeological evidence of the region, the topography, the demographic

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Open AccessArticleAbalone in Diasporic Chinese Culture: The Transformation of Biocultural Traditions through Engagement with the Western Australian Environment

by Li Chen and John Charles Ryan

Heritage2018, 1(1), 122-141; https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage1010009

Received: 15 May 2018 / Revised: 7 July 2018 / Accepted: 18 July 2018 / Published: 19 July 2018

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In October 2017, the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development of Western Australia (WA) promulgated a new regulation on recreational abalone harvesting. A notable change was that, from 2017 on, the annual fishing season in the West Coast Zone was reduced to

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Open AccessArticleHydraulic Chiefdoms in the Eastern Andean Highlands of Colombia

by Michael P. Smyth

Heritage2018, 1(1), 100-121; https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage1010008

Received: 16 May 2018 / Revised: 9 July 2018 / Accepted: 9 July 2018 / Published: 11 July 2018

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The natural and cultural heritage of the Valley of Leiva in the Eastern Colombian Andes is closely tied to the Colonial town of Villa de Leyva. The popular tourist destination with rapid economic development and agricultural expansion contrasts sharply with an environment of

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Open AccessArticleGlocal Participatory System for the Recording, Documentation and Promotion of Cultural Heritage: A Greek Case-Study

by Dimitris Psychogyios and Nick Poulakis

Heritage2018, 1(1), 88-99; https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage1010007

Received: 5 June 2018 / Revised: 21 June 2018 / Accepted: 24 June 2018 / Published: 26 June 2018

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The recording, documentation and promotion of local cultural heritage has been the subject of significant research from scientists from various fields such as architecture, anthropology, history, folklore, ethnomusicology, and museology. This paper argues that digital technologies could have a catalytic role concerning the

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Open AccessArticleImplementing Sustainability in Retrofitting Heritage Buildings. Case Study: Villa Antoniadis, Alexandria, Egypt

by Ahmed M. R. Khalil, Naglaa Y. Hammouda and Khaled F. El-Deeb

Heritage2018, 1(1), 57-87; https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage1010006

Received: 30 March 2018 / Revised: 16 May 2018 / Accepted: 19 May 2018 / Published: 22 May 2018

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Sustainable design is believed to stand on the opposite side of heritage conservation. This view is supported by the fact that sustainable design requires invasive measures to implement new technologies and treatments that challenge the principle of minimum intervention in heritage conservation. Another

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Open AccessCase ReportConservation of a Wooden Tomb-Marker from the Jewish Cemetery of Algarrobos in Argentina

by Paula V. Alfieri, Rosana Lofeudo, Guadalupe Canosa, Fabian Iloro and Luis P. Traversa

Heritage2018, 1(1), 47-56; https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage1010005

Received: 2 March 2018 / Revised: 16 May 2018 / Accepted: 20 May 2018 / Published: 22 May 2018

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The state of conservation of some tombs in the Jewish Cemetery of Algarrobos in Colonia Mauricio, Buenos Aires, Argentina was evaluated. A lot of material was found, but only two tomb-markers were done on wood. They were in a state of serious deterioration,

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Open AccessEditorialHeritage—An Open Access Journal of Knowledge, Conservation, and Management of Cultural and Natural Heritage

by Francesco Soldovieri and Nicola Masini

Heritage2018, 1(1), 45-46; https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage1010004

Received: 7 May 2018 / Revised: 14 May 2018 / Accepted: 14 May 2018 / Published: 14 May 2018

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Over the last fifteen years, studies on cultural heritage (CH) have assumed a methodological, cultural, and scientific perspective, aimed at creating an area in which to carry out frontier research to be replicated in other domains [...] Full article 

Open AccessArticleBiological Profile Estimation Based on Footprints and Shoeprints from Bracara Augusta Figlinae (Brick Workshops)

by Luís Miguel Marado and Jorge Ribeiro

Heritage2018, 1(1), 33-44; https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage1010003

Received: 22 March 2018 / Revised: 8 May 2018 / Accepted: 9 May 2018 / Published: 14 May 2018

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Biological profile estimation is an important task of biological and forensic anthropologists. This includes sex, age, ancestry, and body morphology. In bioarchaeology, the biological profile is useful to analyze paleodemography, secular trends, paleopathology, and genetic processes, for example. Foot dimensions, footprints, and shoeprints

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Open AccessFeature PaperArticleA Spatial Pattern Analysis of Frontier Passes in China’s Northern Silk Road Region Using a Scale Optimization BLR Archaeological Predictive Model

by Xiaokun Zhu, Fulong Chen and Huadong Guo

Heritage2018, 1(1), 15-32; https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage1010002

Received: 5 February 2018 / Revised: 10 March 2018 / Accepted: 12 March 2018 / Published: 20 March 2018

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In China’s Northern Silk Road (CNSR) region, dozens of frontier passes built and fortified at critical intersections were exploited starting at approximately 114 B.C. to guarantee caravan safety. Understanding the pattern of these pass sites is helpful in understanding the defense and trading

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Open AccessFeature PaperArticleIntegrated Investigation of Built Heritage Monuments: The Case Study of Paphos Harbour Castle, Cyprus

by Vasiliki Lysandrou, Athos Agapiou, Manolis Ioannides, Nikolaos Kantiranis, Eleftherios Charalambous and Diofantos Hadjimitsis

Heritage2018, 1(1), 1-14; https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage1010001

Received: 25 February 2018 / Revised: 6 March 2018 / Accepted: 6 March 2018 / Published: 14 March 2018

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The state of preservation of built heritage monuments is often evaluated by means of several destructive techniques, which are mainly focused on the analysis of small parts of the monuments’ construction materials. The necessary sampling for the accomplishment of these destructive analyses is

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