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Text and Image: Proceedings of the 61e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Geneva and Bern, 22-26 June 2015.  

Edited by: Attinger, Pascal; Cavigneaux, Antoine; Mittermayer, Catherine; Novàk, Mirko (2018). Leuven, Belgium: Peeters.

Cuneiform Archives and Libraries

1986  |  PIHANS Volume 57 Papers read at the 30e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Leiden, 4-8 July 1983 K.R. Veenhof

Le temple et le culte

1975  |  PIHANS Volume 37 Compte rendu de la vingtième Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale organisée à Leiden du 3 au 7 juillet 1972

Compte rendu de la troisième Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale

1954  |  NINO Volume 1 Organisée à Leiden du 28 juin au 4 juillet 1952 par le Nederlandsch Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten

La revue russe Нумизматика и эпиграфика

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La revue russe  Нумизматика и эпиграфика / Numizmatika i jepigrafika  [Numismatique et épigraphie] aborde la numismatique et l’épigraphie antique, mais aussi plus récente, notamment médiévale. Une majorité d’articles sont consacrés à la mer Noire. Les anciens numéros n°1 à 15 de … Lire la suite →

Stellar corpse reveals clues to missing stardust

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Everything around you – your desk, your laptop, your coffee cup – in fact, even you – is made of stardust, the stuff forged in the fiery furnaces of stars that died before our sun was born. Probing the space surrounding a mysterious stellar corpse, scientists at the University of Arizona have made a discovery that could help solve a long-standing mystery: Where does stardust come from? The Butterfly Nebula, also known as the Twin Jet...

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Astronomers using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have employed a revolutionary method to detect dark matter in galaxy clusters. The method allows astronomers to "see" the distribution of dark matter more accurately than any other method used to date and it could possibly be used to explore the ultimate nature of dark matter. The results were published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Two...

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Beyond the black hole singularity

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Our first glimpses into the physics that exist near the center of a black hole are being made possible using "loop quantum gravity"--a theory that uses quantum mechanics to extend gravitational physics beyond Einstein's theory of general relativity. Loop quantum gravity, originated at Penn State and subsequently developed by a large number of scientists worldwide, is opening up a new paradigm in modern physics. The theory has emerged...

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Tiny fish known to survive where most marine life could not, may no longer be able to thrive under diminishing oxygen levels. Krill is one of the species determined unable to handle further ocean deoxygenation. They're very important in the diets of fishes, squids and whales [Credit: Stephani Gordon, Open Boat Films]A new study published in Science Advances finds just the slightest change in oxygen level could have tremendous...

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Earlier this year, the United Nations announced some much-needed, positive news about the environment: The ozone layer, which shields the Earth from the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation, and which was severely depleted by decades of human-derived, ozone-destroying chemicals, is on the road to recovery. MIT researchers have back-tracked chloroform in East Asia using AGAGE measurements and 3-dimensional  atmospheric transport...

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Genetic study reveals how citrus became the Med's favorite squeeze

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Genetic detective work has illuminated the important role of Jewish culture in the widespread adoption of citrus fruit by early Mediterranean societies. Buddha's Hands - citron study highlights historic path of domestication [Credit: Mathulack Photography]The fascinating find came to light in an investigation into a bizarre acidless mutation which makes citrus juice 1000 times less acidic. John Innes Centre researchers used genetic...

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Spectacular flying reptiles soared over Britain's tropical Jurassic past

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Spectacular flying reptiles armed with long teeth and claws which once dominated the skies have been rediscovered, thanks a palaeontology student's PhD research. Well armed Klobiodon: Flying reptiles, including the newly discovered Klobiodon rochei, have been put together from fragments found in fossil-rich Stonesfield, in Oxfordshire [Credit: Mark Witton]Dr Michael O'Sullivan, at the University of Portsmouth, has uncovered evidence...

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Newborn insects trapped in amber show first evidence of how to crack an egg

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Fossilised newborns, egg shells, and egg bursters preserved together in amber provide the first direct evidence of how insects hatched in deep time, according to a new article published in the journal Palaeontology. Four complete Tragychrysa ovoruptora newborns preserved together with egg shell remains and one visible egg burster (right inset) [Credit: Palaeontology, 2018]One of the earliest and toughest trials that all organisms...

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The idiosyncratic mammalian diversification after extinction of the dinosaurs

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Mass extinction typically conjures up a picture of a meteor falling to Earth and decimating the dinosaurs along with everything else. However, this is not exactly what happened. Different groups of living beings were affected differently by the various mass extinctions that have occurred during the planet's history. Origination, extinction and diversification rates for the three mammalian clades in North America. Dotted lines denote...

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Genomic analyses can reveal the geographic origins of indigenous Aboriginal Australian remains currently held in museums, a new study published in Science Advances reports. Critically, this could allow these remains to be returned to their original communities - a result Aboriginal Australians have fought to achieve for decades. The tooth of Kaakutja [Credit: Dr. Joanne Wright]According to the authors, their study has significant...

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Spanish police recover hundreds of plundered artefacts

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Police in Spain recovered hundreds of looted archaeological items, including a prehistoric axe mold and a medieval seal, that were stolen from sites in the Tietar Valley more than three decades ago, authorities announced this week. Credit: Guardia CivilIn addition to great historic value, the Spanish Civil Guard said the 257 antiquities, which span from prehistory to the 15th century, are worth an estimated US$350,000. (adsbygoogle =...

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3rd century Buddha sculpture unearthed in Guntur

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Archaeologist and Buddhist scholar Emani Sivanagi Reddy has discovered an ancient Buddhist sculpture of ‘Naga Muchalinda’ in Old Guntur, a city within the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region. The sculpture cements Old Guntur’s status as a Buddhist site of importance, according to E. Sivanagi Reddy [Credit: The Hindu]The sculpture is believed to date back to the 3rd Century and is carved out of a limestone rock. Mr. Reddy unearthed the...

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Recently, 47 heritage sites and more than 70 artefacts were found at the middle and lower reaches of the Keriya River in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. 47 heritage sites and more than 70 artefacts were found at the middle and lower reaches of the Keriya River in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region [Credit: Li Xiao/China Daily]The discoveries include rare "wooden corpses", exquisite jade sceptres,...

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A new ancient DNA study shows that 14th century plague outbreaks might have resulted from repeated introductions of Yersinia pestis to Europe. Commercial trade routes, including the fur trade routes, would have contributed to the rapid spread of plague in whole Europe during the Middle Ages. Around 30 per cent of the European population died from plague between 1347 and 1353. Illustration by Pieart dou Tielt [Credit: WikiCommons]The...

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While examining a skull from an ancient burial ground in a pre-Columbian village in Panama, Nicole Smith-Guzmán, bioarchaeologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), was surprised to discover an example of surfers' ear: a small, bony bump in the ear canal common among surfers, kayakers and free divers in cold climates. After inspecting more skulls, she concluded that a select group of male divers--perhaps looking for...

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D-shaped Wari ceremonial structure unveiled in Lambayeque region

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A D-shaped ceremonial structure of the Wari Culture, which dates back to the Middle Horizon (A.D. 600-1000), has been unearthed at Huaca Santa Rosa complex in the northern province of Chiclayo. Credit: AndinaAs is known, the Wari Culture flourished in the heart of the Andes, currently known as Ayacucho region. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The first report of Wari's presence in the country's northern coast was a...

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Traces of possible pre-Roman theatre discovered in Pompeii

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Pompeii may have had a theatre already at the time of the arrival of the Samnites in the fourth century BC, Superintendent Massimo Osanna said Thursday after the discovery of a concave area next to the second-century BC theatre that was preserved by the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius. The new digs at the famed archaeological site have "raised this hypothesis", he said. Credit: ANSAThere are archaeological remains in Pompeii for Greeks,...

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