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Auroral records found in historical archives and cosmogenic isotopes found in natural archives have served as sound proxies of coronal mass ejections and solar energetic particles (SEPs), respectively, for dates prior to the onset of... more
Arktos is the first book ever written on the archetype of the Poles: celestial and terrestrial, North and South. It is a hair-raising voyage through cosmology, occultism and conspiracy theory leads to startling revelations about the... more
THIS collection of documents represents the result of three years' gleaning in English and foreign libraries, carried on by no means continuously, and extending over no very wide field, Oxford, London, Cheltenham, Paris and Treves have... more
This study documents the history of epidemics in the ancient Near East, giving some examples from Mesopotamia, the Levant, and the Arabian Peninsula. It relies on the cuneiform scripts, the Sumerian and Akkadian languages, and other... more
This Master's Thesis was intended to review the primary and secondary Sources concerning the Relations of Assyria with the Near East between 934 and 610 B.C. The first part is a Guidebook of Neo-assyrian Primary Sources : the... more
Topics are- The Sphinx and the Pyramids of Gizeh, seen at sunset Khephren .The Mastaba of Khomtini in the Necropolis of Gizeh The Great Sphinx of Gizeh partially uncovered, and the F)Tamid of TetiniSnkhu, sitting before the funeral repast... more
This study presents a further investigation into the library of the so-called Haus des Beschwörungspriesters, also known as N4 library, the largest and richest Neo-Assyrian private library. The research is based mostly on colophons, and... more
Mythology of Babylon , Gilgamesh , Occult Society's , Tiamat destroyed by Marduk , gods in battle to Yahweh of Israelite and Phoenicians sailing to Cyprus and Egypt to exchange cuneiform ancient tablets and knowledge of Secret words of... more
A study of the archaeology of the so-called Nippur Library including the publication of a manuscript written by H.V. Geere and C.S. Fisher who helped excavate the Library in Season 4 at Nippur. Also included is a catalogue of just over... more
The book focuses on the Neo-Babylonian administrative letters dated to Nabopolassar and the first half of Nebuchadnezzar’s reigns (ca. 626–580 BCE); this is the formative phase of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. The 215 letters in the corpus... more
Paru dans Des contrées avestiques à Mahabad, via Bisotun. Études offertes en hommage à Pierre Lecoq, CPOR 2, Céline Redard (éd.), Neuchâtel, 2016, pp. 25-60. In the great inscription of Bisotun, King Darius, speaking in the first... more
The paper examines the cuneiform evidence from sixth-century Babylonia (and beyond) for information on the form and aims of Neo-Babylonian imperial rule over its western provinces. While new texts, which hitherto have not been considered... more
In this article I analyze rituals performed at the door of houses, temples, and cities, as well as the symbolism of the door and the use of doors' parts or materia in the rituals of the early Ist millenium BCE.
Grammatical analysis of the 2010 Ophel fragment of an Amarna letter implies that there was more than one variety of Babylonian being written in Late Bronze Age Jerusalem, and therefore more than one type of scribal training.
Trough this article we will try to look closely to the iconographyc program which the neoasirian soverign Sennacherib wanted to develop in its “Palace without Rival”. The many reliefs which Layard exposed, have shown not only a vivid... more
Οι σημιτικοί λαοί πίστευαν ότι το σύμπαν είναι μια σφαίρα, της οποίας το άνω και το κάτω ημισφαίριο χωρίζονταν από το επίπεδο πάνω στο οποίο βρισκόταν η γη. Η γη περιβαλλόταν από θάλασσα, που στα δυτικά έβρεχε την Ακτή του κάτω κόσμου... more
Assyrian, Han dynasty, and Roman law codes and structures considered as they relate to familial and societal well-being.
"Revista numismática Hécate" 3 (2016), pp. 237-239. ISSN 2386-8643
A revised version of the thesis has been published as Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 29: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501511912. Die überarbeitete Version der Dissertation wurde als Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 29... more
Tento článok vyšiel na HistoryLabe dňa 7. februára 2022. Celú verziu nájdete na: https://historylab.sk/starovek/preco-sa-prestal-pouzivat-klinopis/
The volume is available in open access: https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/25690. While usually concentrating on the decipherment and study of texts, cuneiform studies have, in recent years, paid more and more attention to the... more