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Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhalt -- Quellen -- Literatur -- Zeichen und Abkürzungen -- I. Aus den Büchern des Mani -- II. Briefe des Mani -- III. Aus den ,,Kephalaia des Lehrers" -- IV. Äußerungen ...

Die Ausgrabungen in Haithabu Band 18

Der Band 9 präsentiert die Ergebnisse der Grabungsaktivitäten 2018 und 2019 des im Frühjahr 2018 wieder aufgenommenen Gadara Region Project. Die seit 2018 in Zir??a durchgeführten Grabungs- und For...

The Archaeology of Peasantry in Roman Spain

The Biological, Demographic, and Social Consequences of Living in Cities

Monarchy and Power in Ancient Macedonia

In the Amduat, the night-journey of the Egyptian Sungod is divided into twelve hours, each of them containing an enormous amount of insight into the human psyche. The entire Amduat could be called ...

Egypt's New Kingdom emerged from a period of regionalisation, when local communities had developed according to different trajectories that gave rise to diverse socio-cultural transformations. Dyna...

Between Modulations and Transpositions

I-VI -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Facsimile of the Jerusalem Palimpsest of Euripides -- PLATES 1-71 -- 3. THE COLLATION -- 4. APPENDIX A: The relationship of ? to Mss. ABMLPV -- ...

The Mamluk Sultanate represents an extremely interesting case study to examine social, economic and cultural developments in the transition into the rapidly changing modern world. On the one hand, ...

It was about two thousand years ago the Roman historian Tacitus reported the Germanics venerated Mercury above all. He meant a Germanic God he equated with Mercury. Because Tacitus didn't denominat...

Over the last few years, archaeologists have been finding more and more evidence for the existence of a civilisation on the Balkan peninsula which, between the 6th and 4th millennia BCE, was using ...

The partial skeleton of Homo erectus found in Kenya by Alan Walker, Richard Leakey, and others is truly one of the great discoveries in paleoanthropology, after the world's best paleoanthropologist...

Hardly any other scripture from the time of the Roman Empire of about two thousand years ago has stirred up so much excited attention as the "Germania" of Tacitus. Only from this ethnographic essay...