Two purple textile dyes are referred to in ancient records: one had a blue hue and the other a red.1 The bluish purple was named tekhelet in biblical and Talmudic Hebrew and ‘hyacinthine purple’ by the Romans. The reddish variety was called argaman in the Hebrew and ‘Tyrian purple’ by the Romans. Archaeological findings in the Mediterranean area have indicated that the ancients utilised three s...

The Romans type IIA theory is the only known example of 10-dimensional maximal supergravity where (tensor) fields are explicitly massive. We provide an example of a non-relativistic anti-de Sitter NRadS 4 × S 6 background as a solution in massive type IIA. A compactification of which on S 6 gives immediately the prototype NRadS background in D = 4 which is proposed to be dual to 'cold atoms' or...

[The Romans] do not begin to use their weapons first in time of war, nor do they then put their hands first into motion, while they avoided so to do in times of peace; but as if their weapons did always cling to them, they have never any truce from warlike exercises; . . . nor would he be mistaken that should call those their exercises unbloody battles, and their battles bloody exercises.— Flav...

Dans la plupart de ses romans, Milan Kundera met en scène un va-et-vient constant entre le territoire tchèque et d’autres pays essentiellement l’Ouest, à travers les déplacements des personnages. Nous interrogeons ces flux d’im/migration centrifuge ou centripète (parfois ne dépassant pas stade du simple projet) qui semblent participer l’élaboration d’une poétique visant établir réseau communica...

The main aims of this research are the design and implementation of a multilayered and interactive geomatic map of the cultural heritage of Tuscia, one of the richest and most complex cultural areas of Italy, thanks to the presence of different civilizations, from Etruscans and Romans to the Middle Age. Its cultural heritage is very rich, valuable and above all diversified because including tan...

the study of the meaning is the oldest intellectual concerns of human over time and in various cultures and civilizations. the meaning have occupid the chiness and indian thinkers and philosophers of the greeks and romans during centuries. the arab and muslim linguists and others mostly shared in study of many issues related to meaning of the words. arab’s linguistic research has focus on deter...