The successful application of the Liangzhu Ancient City Site as a World Heritage indicates that five thousand years Chinese civilization has been widely recognized internationally. In post-world heritage era, Ruins Park should take development tourism an important way to protect and inherit culture. On this basis, article explores path for international Park, mainly discussing from aspects crea...

How are they related to each other? This chapter seeks to answer these questions. Answering the first is simple. Obviously, the current world order cannot be fully understood without taking ‚globalization‛ into consideration. The effects of Globalization reach every corner of the world in different scope and degree. Why is ‚civilization‛ important? It is important because civilization incorpora...

Historically, in ancient civilization, man had already imagined changes in the morphology, structure and function of the human body. Egyptian and Greco-Roman mythology provided examples of the metamorphoses sung by Homer and Ovid, symbolic incarnations of the “comedie humaine” with its strength, weakness, vices and virtues. The liver has been the noble organ, the organ of life from time immemor...

During colonization in the 16th century both the Spanish and indigenous population underwent a dramatic cultural change. Puebla, Mexico is a unique city to discover the layers of identity because a different approach the Spanish decided to pursue to build its society. As Mexico’s first industrialized city, it is also the first Mexican city that was not built upon existing indigenous civilizatio...

BACKGROUND The origin of the Etruscan civilization (Etruria, Central Italy) is a long-standing subject of debate among scholars from different disciplines. The bulk of the information has been reconstructed from ancient texts and archaeological findings and, in the last few years, through the analysis of uniparental genetic markers. METHODS By meta-analyzing genome-wide data from The 1000 Gen...

Identifying general patterns of colonization and radiation in island faunas is often hindered by past human-caused extinctions. The insular Caribbean is one of the only complex oceanic-type island systems colonized by land mammals, but has witnessed the globally highest level of mammalian extinction during the Holocene. Using ancient DNA analysis, we reconstruct the evolutionary history of one ...

The recent recovery of ancient DNA from a growing number of human samples shows that mitochondrial DNA haplogroup I was introduced to Europe after the end of the Last Glacial Maximum. This paper provides a spatio-temporal analysis of the various subhaplogroups of mitochondrial DNA I. The study suggests that haplogroup I diversified into haplogroups I1, I2’3, I4 and I5 at specific regions in Eur...

Just as modern nation-states struggle to manage the cultural and economic impacts of migration, ancient civilizations dealt with similar external pressures and set policies to regulate people's movements. In one of the earliest urban societies, the Indus Civilization, mechanisms linking city populations to hinterland groups remain enigmatic in the absence of written documents. However, isotopic...

Hair has always played an important role in the history of mankind. Egyptian hieroglyphics are testimony of the paramount importance of hair for this ancient civilization, not only because of the visual effect, but also because of the erotic symbolism connected with hair. For the ancient Romans hair was not only a question of fashion but was used as a symbol of beauty, virility, class and intel...

The roots of modern science and history of urinary stone disease go back to the Ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamia. Hippocrates defined the symptoms of bladder stones. The first recorded details of "perineal lithotomy" were those of Cornelius Celsus. Ancient Arabic medicine was based mainly on classical Greco-Roman works. Interestingly, the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 forbade physicians from ...