Cultural encounters often result in the borrowing of words between communities involved. This words, turn, preserve precious clues about nature and characteristics interactions underlying their transfer, can thus be a (but overlooked) source socio-historical information. The present paper aims at showing how Egyptian borrowings Levantine languages used as an additional evidence to explore socio...

Societal Impact Statement Grapevine is a major horticultural crop that has been intertwined with human culture for Millennia. The Levant was an important center of the ancient winemaking industry until collapse Byzantine Empire. Consequently, identity grapevine varieties considered lost. Here, we study domestication history Levantine samples using whole‐genome sequencing data and show some are ...

Abstract. The Cyprus Coastal Ocean Forecasting and Observing System (CYCOFOS) has been producing operational flow forecasts of the northeastern Levantine Basin since 2002 and has been substantially improved in 2005. CYCOFOS uses the POM flow model, and recently, within the frame of the MFSTEP project, the flow model was upgraded to use the hourly SKIRON atmospheric forcing, and its resolution w...

although the zarzian was first identified in the 1920s, it has not been until recently that detailed investigations of it have been undertaken. in contrast to the intensive research on the epipaleolithic period in the levant, the zarzian in the zagros area is less well known, although it shares some similarities (as well as differences) with the levantine epipaleolithic including trajectories o...

Most of the available resources of colloquial Arabic speech are transcribed without diacritics. Those diacritics provide short vowels and other pronunciation information and by omitting them a considerable amount of ambiguity is introduced. In this paper, we propose the use of an automatic diacritisation method as front-end for training of automatic speech recognition systems of colloquial Arab...