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The Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires has published an annotated text corpus of some 6,000 Babylonian texts from the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. The texts have been ...
The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite sites represent one of the largest groups of texts from the ancient Near East ... Currently the corpus consists of almost 400,000 ...
The "'Book of the Dead' denotes the relatively large corpus of mortuary texts ... scroll is identical to another." The ancient Egyptians called these texts the "Book of Coming Forth by Day ...
These ancient peoples believed that “events ... sky and would match their observations with the academic corpus of celestial-omen texts," George and his colleague Junko Taniguchi wrote in ...
Xunzi, the first intelligent tool of its kind in China, features a vast corpus of more than 2 billion words from ancient texts, including the Siku Quanshu (The Complete Library in the Four ...
Ancient Near Eastern texts have never been studied in this way ... to discussion around the universality of emotions. The ...
Now scientists have identified the compounds in the balms used to mummify the organs of an ancient Egyptian noblewoman ... beakers and bowls inscribed with texts providing instructions on how ...