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Flinders Petrie, 1906, Researches in Sinai O my god, 「rescue」 [me] 「from」 the interior of the mine. ’l「ḫlṣ」[n]「b」t「k」nqb Text 350 Steliform rock panel column ii, left column gives a picture of the situation of the miners." According to William Albright, in his book "The Proto-Sinaitic Inscriptions And Their Decipherment", the first inscriptions in the category now ...
African philosophy. African philosophy is the philosophical discourse produced in Africa or by indigenous Africans. African philosophers are found in the various academic fields of present philosophy, such as metaphysics, epistemology, moral philosophy, and political philosophy. [1]
Ancient Egyptian mathematics is the mathematics that was developed and used in Ancient Egypt c. 3000 to c. 300 BCE, from the Old Kingdom of Egypt until roughly the beginning of Hellenistic Egypt. The ancient Egyptians utilized a numeral system for counting and solving written mathematical problems, often involving multiplication and fractions .
Aztec was pictographic and ideographic proto-writing, augmented by phonetic rebuses. It also contained syllabic signs and logograms. There was no alphabet, but puns also contributed to recording sounds of the Aztec language. While some scholars have understood the system not to be considered a complete writing system, this is disputed by others.
The Phoenician alphabet [b] is a consonantal alphabet (or abjad) [2] used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia for most of the 1st millennium BCE. It was the first mature [clarification needed] alphabet, and attested in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found across the Mediterranean region. In the history of writing systems, the ...
This list of papyri from ancient Egypt includes some of the better known individual papyri written in hieroglyphs, hieratic, demotic or in ancient Greek. Excluded are papyri found abroad or containing Biblical texts which are listed in separate lists . The content descriptions are preceded by a letter in bold font, indicating the literary genre ...
Religious art. 9th century Byzantine mosaic of the Hagia Sophia showing the image of the Virgin and Child, one of the first post-iconoclastic mosaics. It is set against the original golden background of the 6th century. Religious art is a visual representation of religious ideologies and their relationship with humans.
