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Bordering on Asian paintings: dye analysis of textile borders and mount elements to complement research on Asian pictorial art
Mount components and textile borders represent important elements of Asian paintings. However, they are often side-lined or not considered an integral part of the original piece, as they may be later additions or may have been replaced during historic conservation or mounting interventions. Nevertheless, evidence is sometimes present that textile...Tamburini, Diego ; Dyer, Joanne ; Heady, Teresa ; Derham, Alice ; Kim-Marandet, Meejung …
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On the Antiquity of Cancer: Evidence for Metastatic Carcinoma in a Young Man from Ancient Nubia (c. 1200BC)
Cancer, one of the world's leading causes of death today, remains almost absent relative to other pathological conditions, in the archaeological record, giving rise to the conclusion that the disease is mainly a product of modern living and increased longevity. This paper presents a male, young-adult individual from the archaeological...Binder, Michaela ; Roberts, Charlotte ; Spencer, Neal ; Antoine, Daniel ; Cartwright, Caroline
Cancer and ancient Nubia
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Interactive visualization of 3d scanned mummies at public venues
Article revealing how a full-body virtual autopsy of an ancient Egyptian mummy showed museum visitors he was likely murdered.Ynnerman, Anders ; Rydell, Thomas ; Antoine, Daniel ; Hughes, David ; Persson, Anders …
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Britain and the archaeology of Cyprus I. The long 19th century
The first part of a two-part survey of British contributions to the archaeology of Cyprus from the 18th century to the present day.Kiely, Thomas ; Ulbrich, Anja
Cyprus and archaeology
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Excavations at Kition-Bamboula 1879. Finds in the British Museum
A full account of the 1879 excavations at the site of Kition-Bamboula in Cyprus and the finds that were subsequently given to the British Museum.Kiely, Thomas ; Fourrier, Sabine
Cyprus and archaeology
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The archaeological interests of Samuel Brown, Government Engineer, and his circle of acquaintances in late 19th century Cyprus
An overview of the archaeological interests of Samuel Brown, a government engineer and private collector of Cypriote artefacts in late 19th-century Cyprus.Kiely, Thomas ; Merrillees, Robert
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Charles Newton and the archaeology of Cyprus
An article discussing Charles Newton's role in the development of Cypriot archaeology in the 19th centuryKiely, Thomas
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Four unpublished marble sculptures of Hellenistic date from Cyprus in the British Museum
A study of four previously unpublished marble statues of Hellenistic date from Cyprus in the British MuseumHiggs, Peter ; Kiely, Thomas
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Paleoenvironmental surveys at Naukratis and the Canopic branch of the Nile
Thirty-five auger cores (covering an area of c. 1 km2) were undertaken at the ancient site of Naukratis in the Nile Delta, an important trading port from c. 620 BCE until 650 CE, supplemented by an Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) profile. These data inform on the location and navigability of...Pennington, Benjamin T. ; Thomas, Ross I.
Naukratis, Auger, Canopic, Paleolandscape, Nile, Channel geometry, and Navigation
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(Re)sources: Origins of metals in Late Period Egypt
Metal trade and access to raw materials during the Late Bronze Age—roughly covering the New Kingdom in Egypt—have received substantial attention from past and present scholarship. Despite copper and lead remaining essential commodities afterwards, our knowledge about their supply during the Iron Age and later periods, in contrast, remains limited,...Masson-Berghoff, Aurélia ; Pernicka, Ernst ; Hook, Duncan ; Meek, Andrew
faience, Late Period, lead isotopes, metal, and Egypt