Κοινότητα Αναγνωστών Βιβλίων - readers.gr

Οι υπεύθυνες απαντήσεις της επιστήμης και η παρούσα κατάσταση της έρευνας για την πρώτη αρχή του ελληνικού πολιτισμού. Πότε ξεκινά ο ελληνικός πολιτισμός; Πώς μπορούμε να ορίσουμε μεθοδολογικά την αφετηρία του και να την εντοπίσουμε στον χρόνο; Σε ποιούς χρόνους και σε ποιές διαδικασίες μπορεί να αναχθεί η προέλευση του ελληνισμού των ιστορικών χρόνων; Το κυριότερο: πού μπορούμε να βρούμε, ως μέσοι Έλληνες αναγνώστες, υπεύθυνες απαντήσεις σε ερωτήματα τόσο σημαντικά και ευαίσθητα, μακριά από επικίνδυνες υπεραπλουστεύσεις και ακραίες ιδεοληψίες, από μυθομανείς "ερευνητές"...

The extraordinary feats of conquest of Cyrus the Great and Alexander the Great have left a lasting imprint in the annals of world history. Successive Persian and Greek rule over vast stretches of territory from the Indus to the eastern Mediterranean also created an international environment in which people, commodities, technological innovations, as well as intellectual, political, and artistic ideas could circulate across the ancient world unhindered by ethno-cultural and territorial barriers, bringing about cross-fertilization between East and West. These broad patterns o...

Archaeomagnetism and palaeomagnetism are fascinating specialized studies because both are applicate to or interact with such a wide range of problems in geophysics, geology, palaeoclimatology and archaelogy. Once the geomagnetic field's strength and direction is measured from an ancient pottery or lake sediment sample, use can be made of these measurments, amognst others, for the reconstruction of the field's varations -the secular varation- in the past. [...] A brief introduction to the geomagnetic field's genesisand mechanisms is presented, as well as measuring techniqu...

The present volume is complementary to volume Ia, entitled "Inscriptions from Palaestina Tertia: The Greek Inscriptions from Ghor es-Safi (Byzantine Zoom)" and published in 2005, which contained 321 inscribed funerary stelae from this area (and another 20 bearing only symbols). Vol. Ib includes 66 new inscriptions from the Ghor es-Safi area (Byzantine Zoora), also one from Khirbet Qazone and 13 from Feinan (Byzantine Phaeno). The vast majority of the Ghor es-Safi epigraphic material (64 inscriptions) originates from the An-Naq' cemetery, a burial site since Early Bronze Age...

The subject of the study is three Roman provincial coin hoards, which were unearthed during excavations conducted by the Univercity of Thessalonike at the site of Dion in Macedonia in the years 1998, 1999 and 2000, respectively. Their concealment in the same area, as well as their very similar contents and burial date, indicate that the three finds are clearly related nad they are therefore discussed here as a whole. Their interest lies both in the secure archaeological context from which they derive and in the large number of coins they include, something that is very unu...

A story with heroes from the sculpture collection of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.

Gonur was the most important city in the kingdom of Margiana in Central Asia, founded by Indo-Iranian tribes whose religion, Iranian paganism, formed the basis for the ancient eastern religion of Zoroastrism. The cemetery of Gonur, which was excavated by Victor Sarianidi, yielded about 3,000 tombs, dating from the end of the 3rd to the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC. This book contains the results of the excavations, anthropological observations based on the skeletons found, and a large number and wide variety of finds: bronzes and pottery, stone and bone artefac...

This utterance of an art historian is not forwarded for rhetoric reasons. It states the basic characteristic of the term found in the epicenter of the current volume: the dual character of the term "landscape" which signifies a place, as it exists, and at the same time it signifies the essence of a place, in the way that this place is represented in the form of art, literature, sound and dealing with the landscape in its tangible dimension, as a subject of scientific approach in terms of town planning, archeology, geography, geology or otherwise. Bibliography also considers...