Among the many Assyrian written sources and inscriptions some texts report the military expeditions of the kings of Assyria. These accounts, the so-called Itineraries texts, describe in details the different stops of the armies through territories outside the Assyrian heartland. With regard to the Zagros area, the reports mention different long and ruthless campaigns undertaken by some Assyrian...

The ChaldoAssyrians (also known as Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Syriacs) are the indigenous people of Mesopotamia and have a history spanning over 6700 years. Today's ChaldoAssyrians are the descendants of the ancient multiethnic Assyrian empire and one of the earliest civilizations emerging in Mesopotamia. Although the Assyrian empire ended in 612 B.C., history is replete with recorded details of...

For over forty years the dominant view in scholarship has been that Deuteronomy 13 is a composition of the seventh century B.C.E. Remarkable similarities of language and norms exist between the apostasy laws of Deuteronomy 13 and the disloyalty provisions set out in section 10 of the Vassal Treaty of Esarhaddon of 672 B.C.E. The claim has proven especially attractive in light of the wealth of h...

For a function from the unit interval to itself with constant slope and one discontinuity, the itineraries of the point of discontinuity are called the critical itineraries. These critical itineraries play a significant role in the study of β-expansions (with positive or negative β) and fractal transformations. A combinatorial characterization of the critical itineraries of such functions is pr...

The raison d'etre of the Airline Passenger Transportation System (APTS) is the rapid, affordable, and safe transportation of passengers (and cargo). Traditional APTS performance metrics, such as flight delays and cancellation rates, fail to account for the delays to passenger trips caused by cancelled flights, missed connections and diversions. Previous research estimated Passenger Trip Delays ...

For a function from the unit interval to itself with constant slope and one discontinuity, the itineraries of the point of discontinuity are called the critical itineraries. These critical itineraries play a significant role in the study of β-expansions (with positive or negative β) and fractal transformations. A combinatorial characterization of the critical itineraries of such functions is pr...

It is fun to travel but painful to arrange the trip. When travelers start off planning they need flights, accommodation and attractions. Which scattered across multiple websites on the internet? Traveler spends time scouting each of them for the best deals, and gets the attraction reviews from established planners in the market. It will be always good if traveler gives specified designations an...

One of the most interesting current challenges in the e-tourism field is to offer services that are able to suggest attractions or event itineraries that fit tourist’s needs and preferences. In this scenario, we defined a method for generating itineraries of intangible cultural heritage events (processions, special markets, festivals, and so on) based on a theoretical model and the transitive c...

The phenomenon of creating enemy images is timeless and universal. 1 In this activity, an abnormal " Other " is negatively juxtaposed in relation to a normal " Self " , not the least in political discourse. In various situations-notably ones that involve the topic of colonialism-a " subaltern " is constructed, that is an agent who is both inferior (thus " sub ") and different in an essence-base...