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2023
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Creators of Modern China: 100 Lives from Empire to Republic 1796-1912
Creators of Modern China: 100 Lives from Empire to Republic (1796–1912) is the first book to be published on the most influential – yet often little-known – women and men of 19th-century China, a knowledge of whose lives, ambitions and achievements helps us understand modern-day China, its domestic challenges, political...Harrison-Hall, Jessica ; Lovell, Julia
China and 19th-century
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2019
Book chapter
From Salamis to Bloomsbury: Transporting the Bull’s Head Capital to the British Museum
An account of the transportation of the famous marble bull's head capital discovered in the 1890 excavations at Salamis to the British Museum.Kiely, Thomas
archaeology, Cyprus, and Salamis
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2021
Book chapter
The visual representation of ghosts in Early Modern Japan
An examination of representations of ghosts in early modern Japan, including paintings, woodblock prints and books, kabuki theatre and martial ghosts.Buckland, Rosina
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2018
Book chapter
Beyond the boundaries of the Periplus: the Persian Gulf route in the supply to Myos Hormos and Berenike
This article compares the quantity of Parthian and Sassanian pottery found at the Egyptian Red Sea ports of Myos Hormos and Berenike. It demonstrates greater interconnections during the Sassanian period than the Parthian, correlating to the rise in international importance of the Sassanian empire.Tomber, Roberta
Parthian pottery, Myos Hormos, Red Sea, Sassanian pottery, Berenike, and Persian Gulf
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2023
Book chapter
Interpersonal violence in the Late Pleistocene: a comprehensive reanalysis of the Nile Valley cemetery of Jebel Sahaba
The Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene period are punctuated by major climatic changes whose effects on human populations remain poorly understood. In the Nile Valley, possible refuge areas during the periods of high climatic constraints, hyper-arid environmental conditions are documented until the onset of the Holocene. Dated to the terminal...Crevecoeur, Isabelle ; Dias-Meirinho, Marie-Hélène ; Zazzo, Antoine ; Antoine, Daniel ; Bon, Francis
