this research that was made on 66 cyclones in wet periods of midwest of iran in a given period (1973-2003) shows that in intense wet periods, cyclogensis centers of mediterranean sea, sudan, red sea and mesopotamia were severely active and have been very effective in rainfall of study area. such systems in general, with respect to dominant synoptic patterns, enters into study area from three ma...

The phase and the ceramic materials that, in Southern Mesopotamia, go under label of “Uruk” (after toponym site southern Iraq) have traditionally been considered origin for development potter’s wheel Near East, according to a perspective that associated emergence wheel, “mass” production so-called bevelled-rim bowls first urbanization. According recent excavations studies it is now clear this w...

ARTICLES The Ecology of Early Food Production in Mesopotamia: K. V. Flannery Prehistoric farmers and herders exploited a series of adjacent but contrasting climatic zones. Crystallization and Molecular Folding: P. H. Lindenmeyer The properties of high polymers are very sensitive to the way molecules fold during crystallization. Meteorites and the Moon: H. C. Urey ..................................

World Literature, traditionally known as Comparative Literature, draws together literatures and cultures of a wide variety of countries and regions. Western and non-Western literary traditions are included in the curriculum, which emphasizes overall the junction – and not division of the past and present, ancient and modern. Ancient Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome – the roots of Classical Traditio...

The idea of the garden began in the ancient Near East, in concert with the origins and development of agriculture, urbanism, and imperialism. From the start, exotic flora and fauna played vital roles in the world's earliest transformations of the natural environment, creating physical and metaphysical gardens of far-reaching significance. This paper examines selected aspects of exotica in Mesop...

At the present time considerable alarm is felt in Europe, lest the plague now raging in Mesopotamia should find its ?way to the cities and repeat in them the history of 1665 in London. But though European cities have some highly cultivated pestilence grounds, ready to yield an abundant crop of death, they have not yet reached the destructive power of a Calcutta " bustee." And yet how complacent...