The main interest of this essay is the analysis of the document from the State Archive in Venice (file: Capi del Consiglio de' Dieci: Lettere di Rettori e di altre cariche) which is connected with the episode from 1748 when the inhabitants of the village žrnove on the island of Korčula in Croatia opened tombs on the local cemetery in the fear of the vampires treating. This essay try to show som...

The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. For the famous Giza Pyramids, the Sphinx, and surrounding tombs and temples, just west of modern Cairo (3rd millennium BCE), the Giza Project at Harvard University is blending older traditional archives (dig photos, archaeological drawings, object metadata) with realistic...

UNLABELLED As biomedical data accumulates, the need to store, share and organize it grows. Consequently, the number of Internet-accessible databases has been rapidly growing on an annual basis. Bioinformatics regularly publishes descriptions of biomedically relevant databases, Nucleic Acids Research has published an annual database issue since 1996 and now a new open-access journal, DATABASE ...

Spinal osteophytic changes are known to be affected by differences in age, sex, population, and mechanical stress. We examined Joseon skeletons (n=87) to obtain vertebral osteophytosis data on a pre-modern Korean population. The mean osteophytic value (MOV) of vertebrae increased in the cervical-thoracic-lumbar order. More severe osteophytosis was found in the vertebrae (C5, T9, T10, and L4) fa...

Through an investigation of two recently discovered paper sheets the Incantation Wish-Fulfillment from Silla kingdom, this reveals that early Korea had more diverse forms dhāraṇī practices than previously assumed. analyses these incantation sheets, contributes toward filling gap in our current understanding material practice pertaining to medieval East Asia. Previously, all known traces dhāraṇī...

Cultural traces under forests are one of the main problems affecting identification archaeological sites in densely forested areas, so it is full challenges to discover ancient tombs buried dense vegetation. The covered can be identified by studying time-series features vegetation covering on multi-time series remote sensing images because deep underground have long-term space structures, which...

The first painted tombs in Etruria date to about 675–650 BC, as attested by a few examples at Veii and Caere, which pre-date those of Tarquinia (mainly sixth–third centuries BC). At first glance, tomb painting has no obvious connection with the Early Iron Age or Villanovan period (tenth/ninth–eighth centuries BC), when burial in shaft or trench graves predominated. Nevertheless, some links can ...

Pet mummies are the kind of mummy that resonates most closely with us now. From the Old Kingdom (c. 2663-2195 BC) onward, Egyptians are pictured in their tombs with their beloved pets, thus ensuring their continued joint existence in the Afterlife. Occasionally the pets would even have their names carved above their image, providing further insurance for their eternal life. This was particularl...

David”, Bib 85 (2004) 245-254. () The subclause “(buried) with his ancestors” is not included in the burial notices for David (1 Kgs 2,10), Solomon (11,43), or Abijam (15,8). () B.O. LONG, 1 Kings with an Introduction to Historical Literature (FOTL 9; Grand Rapids, MI 1984) 22-28; see also K.-J. ILLMAN, Old Testament Formulas about Death (Åbo 1979) 37-48. () So R. WEILL, La cité de David. Compt...