one of the most important sits of sasanian period in iran from which the royal hunting plaques were recovered has been chal tarkhan of eshgh abad. there was a sasanian palace containing a considerable number of stucco representing variety of subject pointing to a deep understanding of sasanian stucco art. in spite of the researchers made by e.g. thompson and kroger on this plaques yet, there ha...

The earliest Chinese hand scroll extant painting is the ‘Nushi zhen’ by Gu Kaizhi housed in the British Museum, which is now often considered to be a Tang Dynasty copy of the original. By compared with correlated literatures and images, the typical skill and styles in which the earliest Chinese figure painters of Jin Dynasty (AD 265-420) depicting costumes is opened out, as well as the typical ...

Abstract Chemical compositional data sets of archaeological artefacts are often analysed using standard statistical procedures. Adopting a different approach, we examine the major element oxides found in Parthian and Sasanian glazed pottery by identifying statistically important ratios conjunction with expert knowledge scientist during, rather than after, identification process. This results me...

Abstract Zhang Shi ?? (1133–80), a Confucian scholar of the Southern Song dynasty, has been considered as yielding to Zhu Xi's ?? (1130–1200) ideas in most cases, his own thought exhibiting no specific features. This essay is an attempt examine differences between and Shi's supreme pivot (taiji ??) nature (xing ?) theories. The features influence on neo-Confucianism dynasty should be reexamined...

Wu et al, Han, and Huang et al question our reconstruction of a large outburst flood and its possible relationship to China's Great Flood and the Xia dynasty. Here, we clarify misconceptions concerning geologic evidence of the flood, its timing and magnitude, and the complex social-cultural response. We also further discuss how this flood may be related to ancient accounts of the Great Flood an...

Vlad III The Impaler, also known as Dracula, descended from the dynasty of Basarab, the first rulers of independent Wallachia, in present Romania. Whether this dynasty is of Cuman (an admixed Turkic people that reached Wallachia from the East in the 11(th) century) or of local Romanian (Vlach) origin is debated among historians. Earlier studies have demonstrated the value of investigating the Y...

Yuan Dynasty was an era with austere political reality and thinking reality. As a result of despisement to ruling of different races, a large majority of scholars in Yuan Dynasty chose seclusion without other choice, but the “internal beauty” they pursued was amazingly unanimous, which was, without doubt, owing to the spirit of the mountains and forests. When they tried to find enjoyment in pai...

aqu (大曲) was a genre of entertainment music popular in China from the Han dynasty to the Song dynasty. While da (大) in Chinese means large or great, qu (曲) means a song, or more generally, a piece of music. As its name implies, a daqu was always a long, multisectional piece of music performed in a grand style uniting singing of poetic verses, instrumental playing, and dancing together, and the ...

OKAA 7 – Milan Aurore Motte PhD Student (Aspirante F.R.S.-FNRS) University of Liège – F.R.S.-FNRS Title: For your ka! How to give something as a present to the tomb owner? Abstract: The aim of this paper is to describe the variety of means in ‘daily life’ scenes in Old Kingdom private tombs for workers to speak to or to offer something to the tomb owner. Starting from the comment made by Detlef...

This overview of Sasanian stuccoes includes sites divided chronologically – without losing sight the regional premises. The iconographic repertoire found in hitherto had been then catalogued ornamental, plant, figural, animal, and monograms. Noteworthy is paragraph on transmission architectural decorations. Although just a few motifs influenced Byzantine decorative language, several were transm...