The Architects of the Valencian Jesuit Foundations by David Miguel Navarro Catalán

“…The remarkable collection of buildings constructed by the Society of Jesus in the old Kingdom of Valencia was completed over the course of an extensive process that began in the 16th century. …”
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Riquelme versus pormollanca – Travestismo hispano-indígena en la frontera chilena del siglo XVIII by Ignacio Chuecas Saldías

“…This article aims to make a contribution to the conceptualization of a relevant phenomenon within the issue of border relations in colonial America (18th century): the fluidity involving ethnic identity exhibited by the Mapuche frontier actors in their relations with the criollo population of the old kingdom of Chile. As part of their strategies of social and economic positioning, individuals wandering from the spaces exempt from Spanish imperial power (“tierra adentro”) make use of complex mechanisms of cultural transvestism in order to secure their position in the colonial context. …”
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THE LAND TRANSPORT SYSTEM, TO AND FROM CONSTANTA, IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY by DOMINTE Paul

“…Overall, this progress transformed Constanta into one of the most modern and dynamic economic areas in the Romanian Old Kingdom, in the early 20th century.…”
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Alexandru Marghiloman and his Passions by Viorel GHEORGHE

“…Alexandru Marghiloman was one of the most important politicians of the Old Kingdom, famous for his wealth, for his customs considered extravagant, but also for the loyalty he had towards King Carol I. …”
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Instituția prefecturii în perioada interbelică (1923-1938). Proiecții legislative by Zoltán GYÖRKE

“…A major challenge that was facing Romanian society, political class and administration was the unification of the three different types of administration that resulted in the country following the First World War: the one existing in the Old Kingdom, the one existing in Transylvania and the one existing in Basarabia. …”
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Ha in Sheta by Andrzej Ćwiek

“…The role of the god Ha as a protector against hunger, rooted in the OldKingdom tradition and expressed also in the text of BD 178 in the Offering Chapel of Hatshepsut,is crucial in this respect.…”
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A Fragmentary Carrying Chair Scene in Salt Lake City, Utah by Edward Brovarski

“…Such chair carrying scenes in the Old Kingdom are generally accompanied by a porters’ ditty, a so-called Sänftenlied. …”
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Game-Boards and Gaming-Pieces in Funerary Contexts in the Northern European Iron Age by Helène Whittaker

“…For instance, in Egypt there was a clear association between the game known as Senet and burials from the time of the Old Kingdom (Pusch 1979; Piccione 1984). Dice are not uncommonly found in Greek, Etruscan, and Roman tombs (Vermeule 1979, 80; Pallottino 1955, fig. 95; Egidi 1983). …”
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Glossing the past: the Fifth Dynasty sun temples, Abu Ghurab and the satellite imagery by Massimiliano Nuzzolo, Patrizia Zanfagna

“…The sites of Abusir and Abu Ghurab, with their unique mingling of funerary and religious architecture, and the incredible heritage of written papyrus documents, represent a crucial area for the understanding of the historical, architectural and religious evolution of Old Kingdom Egypt. However, many of their topographical and archaeological features remain unclear, especially as regards the identification of the four missing sun temples, which are documented in textual sources of the time but have been never located. …”
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ASPEK GENETIK, OBJEKTIF DAN AFEKTIF DALAM PENERJEMAHAN by Donie Fadjar Kurniawan

“…Translation have been practiced and developed for approximately well over 5000 years as from the Egyptian Old Kingdom and the Greek philosophy. It is commonly said that translation refers to reproducing the closet natural equivalent message from source language into target language. …”
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Flints from the Road: on the Significance of two Enigmatic Stone Tools Found along the Darb el-Tawil by Heiko Riemer, Karin Kindermann

“…This route directly connecting the Dakhla Oasis with the Nile Valley has seen caravan transport during almost 4500 years from the Old Kingdom to the 20th century. The two flint objects are a rarity along this route but are also not well-known from archaeological sites elsewhere in Egypt. …”
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Immunological evidence of Plasmodium falciparum infection in an Egyptian child mummy from the Early Dynastic Period by Bianucci, R, Mattutino, G, Lallo, R, Charlier, P, Jouin-Spriet, H, Peluso, A, Higham, T, Torre, C, Massa, E

“…Atomic Mass Spectrometry radiocarbon dating indicated that the mummy belongs to the end of the Early Dynastic Period - beginning of the Old Kingdom. Whole body spiral CT scan and 3D reconstructions did not show evidence of congenital malformations or fractures. …”

The demons of the air and the water of the Nile: Saint Anthony the Great on the reason of the inundation by Tóth, P

“…Obviously, during the thousand-year history of Egypt, the inhabitants of the Nile valley has found several ways and methods to ensure and also to predict the future inundation of the river. So from the Old Kingdom onwards there was a considerable number of priests who were closely connected with the Nile, its observation and also with its religious cult. …”

Sleep, beds, and death in ancient Egypt. Studies on the bed as a female entity by Schutz, MY

“…Studies on the Bed as a Female Entity’ is to create a first overview of these pieces of furniture in the funerary context, from Predynastic times to the Roman Period—due to the constraints of this thesis, the focus was placed on the Pre- and Early-Dynastic Period and the Old Kingdom, i.e., the beginning of the bed’s occurrence in tombs, as well as the royal tombs of the New Kingdom due to its wealth of material, textual, pictorial, as well as archaeological. …”

Radiocarbon-based chronology for dynastic Egypt. by Bronk Ramsey, C, Dee, M, Rowland, J, Higham, T, Harris, S, Brock, F, Quiles, A, Wild, E, Marcus, E, Shortland, A

“…Our radiocarbon data indicate that the New Kingdom started between 1570 and 1544 B.C.E., and the reign of Djoser in the Old Kingdom started between 2691 and 2625 B.C.E.; both cases are earlier than some previous historical estimates.…”

Radiocarbon-based chronology for dynastic Egypt by Ramsey, C, Dee, M, Rowland, J, Higham, T, Harris, S, Brock, F, Quiles, A, Wild, E, Marcus, E, Shortland, A

“…Our radiocarbon data indicate that the New Kingdom started between 1570 and 1544 B.C.E., and the reign of Djoser in the Old Kingdom started between 2691 and 2625 B.C.E.; both cases are earlier than some previous historical estimates.…”

THE DECORATIVE SPACE OF AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PRIVATE TOMB AS A SIGN SYSTEM by Fedor I. Kulikov

“…This paper examines the decorative space of the Egyptian tomb of the Old Kingdom as a system of architectural and pictorial components. …”
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The Cultural and Nationalising Mission of Kindergarten Teachers in Southern Dobruja, 1914-1940 by Camelia ZAVARACHE

“…At the beginning of the 20th century, Romanian elites started to create and adjust them to nationalise Dobruja and Cadrilater, the two provinces integrated into the Old Kingdom. Both regions were ethnically diverse. In localities primarily inhabited by a minority population, the purpose of kindergartens was to spread the Romanian language and national culture. …”
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“AND THE IMAGE OF THE EMPEROR […] I HAVE TORN IT INTO A THOUSAND PIECES.” MENTAL FRONTIERS IN THE NĂSĂUD REGION AT THE END OF THE GREAT WAR by Claudia Septimia SABĂU

“…The First World War and the events concluding 1918, namely the unification of Transylvania with the old Kingdom of Romania, changed not only the geographical frontiers of the former Austrian-Hungarian province, but also the mental ones, which are less evident from the official documents of the era. …”
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Satellite-Aided Analysis of the Position of the Sun Temples and the Dynastic History of the Vth Egyptian Dynasty by Giulio Magli

“…The Sun Temples of the Vth dynasty are the most elusive Egyptian monuments of the Old Kingdom. Textual sources seem to refer to a different temple for each different pharaoh of the dynasty, but only two have been discovered at Abu Gurab, a few hundred meters north of the dynastic necropolis of Abusir. …”
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