The recent acquisitions of archaeological findings of bamboo slips inmany institutions inChina provide us a good significance for the study of development of mathematics in Ancient China. These includes the Tsinghua University (arithmetic table, dated from the Warring States period), the YueluAcademy (bamboo slips of the book “mathematics”, QinDynasty), the BeijingUniversity (bamboo slips of ma...

The history of silk in the Near East begins in Syria in the Roman period, with cloth and yarn of the Han dynasty imported from China. Some of the cloth may well have been the delicate Chinese gauze, because during the first two centuries A.D. Roman writers were scandalized by its transparency, saying that the wearers were clothed only to be unclothed. Other types, damasks and embroidered silks,...

The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army focuses on Emperor Qin Shihuang and the grand empire he created during his rule from 221 to 210 B.C.E. The exhibition at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, originally shown in a larger version at the British Museum in 2007/2008, displays about 100 objects, primarily from the Qin dynasty (221–206 B.C.E.), and examines them within their historical and ar...

Mankind spends a third of it's lifetime sleeping. Sleep deficiency can cause several psychological and physical complications as well as death if prolonged over extended periods. Therefore, sleep is a substantial part of life and essential to the preservation of human-life. In modern society, human-beings are having more difficulty with sleep than ever before. Consequently, the need for medical...

The MULINEM (The Medieval Urban Landscape in Northeastern Mesopotamia) project is aiming to investigate a Late Sasanian and Islamic urban network in the land of Erbil, historic province of Hidyab (Adiabene) that is located in the northern Iraq. The research of the hierarchical urban network in a defined area belongs to approaches rarely used in the study of the Islamic urbanism. The project foc...

It has been suggested that population growth dynamics may be revealed by the geographic distribution and the physical structure of ancient bridges. Yet, this relationship has not been empirically verified. In this study, we applied the archaeological records for ancient bridges to reveal the population growth dynamics in the lower Yangtze River Basin in late imperial China. We investigated 89 a...

Introduction The ancient Chinese believed that after a person died, he would take a journey to the next life. He needed all the things he had in his earth life: food, clothes, money, entertainment, household items, and protection from evil spirits for his journey to the afterlife. The family would prepare a tomb for the dead person and fill it with all these things. This was how they honored th...

there are some evidences on elamite seals that show iranian people had enough knowledge to construct small dome on cylindrical spaces like silo in the third millennium bc. but the foundations of large dome over square spaces were formed in the parthian period. bazeh-hur dome chamber with the corners of wood in khorasan province is the most ancient dome from the sasanian dynasty. since the sasan...

Born in 1368 A.D., after the fall of Yuan dynasty, Great Ming Dynasty, which ruled until 1644, was last Chinese dynasty by a member Han ethnic group. Throughout China’s population doubled, and trade, art, technology, architecture reached new heights. However, Dynasty collapsed its capital fallen to rebel army led Li Zicheng. This collapse caused several long-term causes embedded structure, had ...

Abstract The Liao Dynasty was a minority regime established by the Khitan on grasslands of northern China. To promote and spread cultural knowledge Dynasty, an intelligent question-and-answer system is constructed based graph in historical field Dynasty. In traditional question answering system, quality answers not high due to incomplete data distinctive vocabulary. solve this problem, combinat...