Archaeometric Identification of a Perfume from Roman Times

Tumours and cancers in Graeco-Roman times.

In Graeco-Roman times all tumours (Greek: onkoi, abnormal swellings) were considered to be of inflammatory origin, the result of unfavourable humoural fluxes, and caused by an extravascular outpouring of fluid into tissue spaces. The neoplastic nature of tumours is a more recent concept, barely two centuries old. In Hippocratic literature tumours were mainly classified as karkinômata, phumata, ...

Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times

This most interesting monograph was presented as a thesis which formed part of the examination for the degree of M. D. of the University of Aberdeen, and it gained for its author "Highest Honours." The object of the book is to lay before the student of medical history an account of the various instruments with which the ancient Greeks and Roman surgeons prosecuted their craft. To understand any...

History of perfume

Script Identification – A Han & Roman Script Perspective

All Han-based scripts (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) possess similar visual characteristics. Hence system development for identification of Chinese, Japanese and Korean scripts from a single document page is quite challenging. It is noted that a Han-based document page might also have Roman script in them. A multi-script OCR system dealing with Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Roman scripts, dem...

Roman Portraiture and biometric identification

Damian Schofield Human Computer Interaction Dept. of Computer Science State University of New York [email protected] Katharina Lorenz Digital Humanities Centre Dept. of Classics University of Nottingham [email protected] Stephanie Davy-Jow Morsani College of Medicine Dept. of Radiology University of South Florida Matthew Anderson Human Computer Interaction Dept. of Compute...