A conversation with a friend in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2007 evoked how much the idea of globalisation has permeated ideas of legitimacy in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Almost sharply, this friend said, ‘Don’t forget, the Prophet imagined Islam as global long before anyone was talking about globalisation.’ If being global has become the currency of neoliberal respect, ...

Tras una breve introducción al concepto de geografía histórica y a su aplicación los estudios del Próximo Oriente antiguo se presentan en este ensayo algunas reflexiones tipo histórico-geográfico acerca centros menores la región Umma el periodo protodinástico. Se analiza particular información conocida relación con Zabala, Ki’an, Dulum Kardaḫi época referencia, probando importancia aproximación...

Blackening was observed on the surfaces of Mesopotamian clay tablets from Umma, Dilbat, Larsa, Ur, Babylon, Uruk, Sippar, and Nippur produced between the Third Dynasty of Ur and the Early Achaemenid Dynasty. Portable X-ray fluorescence analysis revealed that manganese was concentrated on the blackened surfaces. Rod-shaped materials with a length of 100 200 nm and a width of 30 nm were observed ...