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The subject of this article is the discovery a lead amulet with an engraved Latin inscription. It was found in Rękawczyn (the eastern part Greater Poland) 2018 during research conducted by District Museum Konin. This artefact first and so far only find its kind Polish context. identified comparing it to similar finds from Germany Bohemia 11th-13th centuries that bear apotropaic inscriptions. te...

Since 2000 the Institute of Methodologies for the Environmental Analysis (National Council of Research, Tito, Italy) installed a geophysical monitoring network able to detect geoelectric, geochemic and seismometric parameters in seismic areas of southern Italy. During this period a very large data-base of geophysical time series has been organized and it is actually available to assess robust s...