Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World

Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient WorldThe concept of sign, a portent observed in the physical world, which indicates future events, was first developed in ancient Mesopotamian texts. This branch of Babylonian scientific knowledge extensively influenced other parts of the world, and similar texts written in Aramaic, Sanscrit, Sogdian, and other languages.

With a mixture of intellect

Susan Ingram and Markus Reisenleitner dig up submerged and marginalized elements of the city's cultural history but also tap into the global circuits of urban affect that are being mobilized for promoting L

Through an examination of the rite and practice of consecrating (dedication) churches in eleventh-century Italy

This detailed report describes archaeological fieldwork conducted between 1995 and 1997 in rural northeast Crete

templates and real-life examples

It conceptualises the epochal transition from analogue to digital both in factual terms and in terms of its social significance

features 12 stories including “The Hammer of God

located in the foothills of Israel's Judaean Mountains

What is Information Science

” a study of the necessary and close relations between the three concepts

but firmly embedded within the traditions and conventions of early film culture

familiarity and fear – proposing a new vocabulary for understanding what is at stake in works that repeat