Dense urbanism and economic multi-centrism at third-millennium BC Lagash

Craft Specialization at Shahdad: Pottery Production during the third millennium BC

Many potteries have been discovered from excavations and a surface survey at Shahdad, but few works have beendone to examine craft specialization in pottery production at this important site. Different types of potteries, some ofwhich bearing potter marks demonstrate that craftsmen of the site had involved in manufacturing of centralized potteryproduction. A number of kilns and many waste of po...

Knowledge of Planets in the Third Millennium BC

Recent advances in archaeology, chronobiology, and history of science have made it possible to decipher hitherto obscure passages related to planets in the Indian books of the third millennium BC. A brief summary of this knowledge is presented. It is argued that the period of Mercury was obtained near the end of the Vedic age in India. This was celebrated in terms of the famous myth of Vishnu s...

Session title: BECOMING EUROPEAN? THE TRANSFORMATION OF THIRD MILLENNIUM EUROPE – AND THE TRAJECTORY INTO THE SECOND MILLENNIUM BC

gir3-gen-na and ∑ulgi’s “Library”: Liver Omen Texts in the Third Millennium BC (I)

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An Investigation into the Form of Bronze and Pottery Wares of the First Millennium BC, Preserved at the Samāvi Collection

By studying works of art remained from the past, various fields of study such as cultural, anthropological and artistic domains can be understood more clearly. These works can be found in national or private museums and examined in detail. A relativrly large collection of such ancient works has been compiled by Javād Samāvi (1954-2015), which includes vessels and artifacts from the prehistoric ...