Recent advances in archaeology, chronobiology, and history of science have made it possible to decipher hitherto obscure passages related to planets in the Indian books of the third millennium BC. A brief summary of this knowledge is presented. It is argued that the period of Mercury was obtained near the end of the Vedic age in India. This was celebrated in terms of the famous myth of Vishnu s...

The Peloponnesian war and the crisis of police system end 5th – beginning 4th century BC became historical context stage chronotope for Aristophanes’ comedies. article explores peculiarities formation modern «Lysistrata» receptions, in particular cinematography journalism. premises «Lysistrata’s phenomenon» emergence their interconnections with reinterpretation ancient heritage are examined. In...

Recent findings of archaeological research in the Vathy gulf area, Astypalaia Island, indicate its continuous habitation since prehistoric times, most importantly transitional period from Final Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (late 4th/early 3rd millennium BC). The evaluation stone artefacts using non-invasive analytical methods (Near Infrared Spectroscopy—NIR), combination with mineral-petrograp...

Studies of ancient Mesopotamian cities have long focused on their institutions. Here, instead, the authors draw recent investigations at third-millennium BC site Lagash (modern Tell al-Hiba, Iraq) to explore urban density, economy and sustainability one largest centres region. Drawing excavation, environmental remote-sensing data, adopt a multi-scalar approach, revealing dense occupation, with ...

Abstract Lacking well-dated fifth millennium Mesolithic evidence and based on a consensus that late Britain was isolated from the continent, discussion of Mesolithic–Neolithic transition has focused centuries around 4000 BC. This discourse over-simplified complex neolithisation processes. New, high-quality 460,000 lithics found at Bexhill, Sussex, SE England, helps to redress this. Here, microl...

Baligang is a Neolithic site on a northern tributary of the middle Yangtze and provides a long archaeobotanical sequence from the Seventh Millennium BC upto the First Millennium BC. It provides evidence for developments in rice and millet agriculture influenced by shifting cultural affiliation with the north (Yangshao and Longshan) and south (Qujialing and Shijiahe) between 4300 and 1800 BC. Th...