The Sumerians may have said it best: “Food: That’s the thing! Drink: That’s the thing!” (Gordon 1959: 142). From bread and beer to wine and cheese, the people of the ancient Near East and North Africa developed a rich cuisine based on a set of crops and livestock domesticated in Southwest Asia, and a sophisticated technology of food preparation and preservation. This chapter traces the history ...

Ancient manuscripts are artifacts that indicate high intellectual abilities in old civilizations. The content is very valuable as well a means of communicating and expressing ideas can provide information about civilization past life. Javanese society one the communities who inherited ancient manuscripts. manuscript decorated with beautiful illuminations signify aesthetics creators. illuminatio...

Abstract Flood control initiated Chinese civilization. civilization has a long history, and ancestors invented “aquatic engineering technology” for flood water management, including the Fascine body, as early two thousand years ago. The body is structure used to protect bank prevent breaching of an ancient project. Excavation Shahe bridge ruins in Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province, China led discove...

Correspondence: Pedro Carrera-Bastos R. Gorgel do Amaral, No. 5, 1 e; Lisbon 1250-119, Portugal Tel +351 967 088 799 email [email protected] Abstract: It is increasingly recognized that certain fundamental changes in diet and lifestyle that occurred after the Neolithic Revolution, and especially after the Industrial Revolution and the Modern Age, are too recent, on an evolutionary ...

among the most important jewish encounters with other cultures and civilizations, the encounter with islamic culture was, in our view, the most important. this encounter was in some aspects like their encounter with the ancient civilization, but the impacts were more valuable and constructive. under islamic rule, the jews not only had a sense of security but also enjoyed a relatively satisfacto...

in this article , firstly a brief survey of iranian-british official political relations are considered . then , it would be studied cultural relations of two countries in the qajar era .role of the english in these relations are evaluated in sections . first , actors of the relations are noted i four groups in  cluding diplomats , military forces , tourists and other scholars and researchers ....

The chronological events associated with cannabis utilization are viewed perceptively as matters/issues that happened from the period “before Christ” (BC) or “anno domini” (AD, “in year of our Lord”) to present time. Cannabis is one oldest natural products known humanity worldwide and has been used by various civilizations, cultures, religions before birth Christ. Interestingly, it date potenti...

Ecological civilization city is the advanced stage and senior form of development human residential area and has the characteristics of harmony, sustainability and high efficiency, etc. Ecological civilization construction of the city is the concrete practice of Marxism ecological civilization in the contemporary society, and helps to improve the quality of the urban residents' life, propel the...

this issue of the journal deals with the heritage of ancient civilizations that have flourished and endured more or less in the important areas of the ancient east; among the central asian countries where they are called the great khorasan and transoxiana and house different ethnic groups with different customs and beliefs, unique nature, precious reserves. people of the land have gone through ...