Ancient Writing and Its Influence

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A Probabilistic Model of Ancient Egyptian Writing

This article investigates a probabilistic model to describe how signs form words in Ancient Egyptian writing. This applies to both hieroglyphic and hieratic texts. The model uses an intermediate layer of sign functions. Experiments are concerned with finding the most likely sequence of sign functions that relates a given sequence of signs and a given sequence of phonemes.

Ancient Iranian Urban Structure and its Situation in Contemporary City

Prorenin and its ancient receptor.

Prorenin, the precursor of renin, has for a long time been considered to be functionally inert, despite high circulating concentrations. Plasma levels of prorenin usually exceed renin levels and are even further increased under pathological conditions, such as in diabetes. First support of a functional significance of prorenin came from studies in transgenic rats, which overexpress a renin gene...

Vedic ritual as medium in ancient and pre-colonial South Asia: its expansion and survival between orality and writing

The earliest more or less datable events in South Asia’s cultural history, the deathof the Buddha and the composition of Pāṇini’s grammar – respectively five andfour centuries before the beginning of the common era – antedate with one to twocenturies the start of a slow and hesitant shift from orality to the writtentransmission of sacred and literary texts in South Asia. Wit...