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Central Asia
Yuezhi Kucha Khotan Karashahr Tarim mummies Lop Nur Tarim Basin Taklamakan Desert Dzungarian Gate Silk Road Cities along the Silk Road Silk Road transmission of Buddhism Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves...
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Turkic Peoples – Name Etymology
The first known mention of the term Turk it was applied to a Turkic group was in reference to the Göktürks in the 6th century. A letter by Ishbara Qaghan to Emperor Wen of Sui in 585 described him as...
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The Kingdom of Gordyene
Hva som er urartu-hurriere, armenere, kurdere osv. er ikke lett å finne ut av. Det har pågått alle mulige slags blandinger opp gjennom tiden. Kanskje er det rett at Corduene kommer fra Gordiene, og...
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Finno-Uralic people and languages
The Permians are a branch of the Finno-Ugric peoples and include Komis and Udmurts, speakers of Permic languages. Formerly the name Bjarmians was also used to describe these peoples. The recent...
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Mitochondrial haplogroup N1a and the origin of European farmers
N1a Phylotree MtDNA haplogroups All mtDNA haplogroups found outside of Africa are descendants of either haplogroup N or its sibling haplogroup M. M and N are the signature haplogroups that define the...
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Ancient European admixture in the Americas, or ancient Amerindian admixture...
Learn about Y-DNA Haplogroup Q Native American Gene Flow – Europe?, Asia and the Americas Nature is about to publish a paper on the genome of a 24,000 year old South Siberian from the Mal’ta Upper...
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The glazed bricks from Bukan (Iran): new insights into Mannaean art
Mannaean studies as an independent field began with the discovery of Ziwiye in 1936 and the initiation of scientific excavations there (Boehmer 1964, 1988; Postgate 1989; Levine 1977). The...
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Manu – The First Man
Manu – The First Man Early man, tell me if you can, When did you come to Earth, Opened your eyes, And took your first steps, What era was that, Unknown, Unnamed, When the rising sun, Kissed your...
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China: The Four Barbarians
The four Barbarians The ancient Chinese classed their neighbors by compass direction as the Siyi “Four Barbarians”, comprising the Beidi, Nanman, Dongyi and Xirong. The four names, or combinations of...
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The cradle of nomadic civilization
Ordos bronze man Throughout the history, nomadic cultures have made important contributions to world civilization, including the sedentary civilization, through the processes of intercultural exchange...
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The cultures in the north of Caucasus
Origins, Homelands and Migrations: Situating the Kura-Araxes Early Transcaucasian ‘Culture’ within the History of Bronze Age Eurasia Kura-Araxes culture, Armenian Highlands Shengavit Settlement...
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Association in archaeology – the close relationship between objects or contexts
Archaeological association Associated finds or objects refers to a close relationship between two or more objects. Associated objects that can be proved to have been deposited at the same time,...
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Ethnic Germans: A Forgotten Genocide
- Organised persecution of ethnic Germans You virtually never read about it, nor do genocide scholars generally discuss it, or include it in their books. Yet, about 15,000,000 people were...
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Bright Blue eyes that shine in darkness! – Amazing crystal eyes that see what...
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Half man, half tree – extraordinary people
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Rabiz, more than a word, it’s a lifestyle
The Armenian word rabiz is perhaps an abbreviation of the Russian (Rabotniki Iskusstva, “Workers of Art”), a Soviet organization into which performers of folk music were once associated. It is a...
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Fatt mot – vi har vind i seilene!
- - - - - - - I meg er født godt og ondt, hvis man kan si det så enkelt. Jeg er spedalsk. Jeg jobber for det gode, men ødelegger for meg selv. Nok av de hendelsene jeg har vært igjennom har fått meg...
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Rest in peace, Mandela — a truly incredible man dedicated to justice, freedom...
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for...
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