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Review: DILLERY, J. – Clio’s Other Sons. Berossus and Manetho. A Discussion of the First Written Histories of Babylon and Egypt. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2015 (XXXVIII, 494). ISBN 978-0-472-07227-9.
Bibliotheca Orientalis. 2018. Vol. 75. No. 1-2. P. 105–117.
Ivan Ladynin, Alexander Nemirovsky
The review gives a critical analysis of a recent book by the American Classicist John Dillery (University of Virginia) on the fragment of the Greek works by Ancient Oriental historians Manetho and Berossus
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Khurshudyan V., Plungian Vladimir, Stepanyants Maxim, Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2026 No. 5 P. 81–98
This study examines the range of strategies used to encode future time reference in Standard EasternArmenian, situating them within the broader context of other Modern Armenian varieties. Illustrative data are drawn from Standard Western Armenian, the Hadrut dialect, and the Hamshen dialect. Adopting a semantic approach, we employ the term “future time reference” to delimit ...
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Zhivlov M., Journal of Language Relationship 2025 Vol. 23 No. 3-4 P. 344–374
The article continues the series of publications focused on the reassessment of the controversial Hokan hypothesis. In this paper, the traditional comparative method is applied to the reflexes of Proto-Hokan obstruents and glottal stop. The obtained results are compared to Terrence Kaufman’s (1989) reconstruction of Proto-Hokan. ...
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Soloshcheva M., Российское китаеведение 2026 Vol. 14 No. 1 P. 6–23
This article examines the conceptualization of Chinese soft power and the implementation
of the PRC’s soft power strategy in Africa. First introduced into academic
discourse by American political scientist Joseph Nye in 1990, the concept was subsequently
adopted and critically re-evaluated by Chinese political theorists, most notably
Wang Huning, Yan Xuetong, Yang Shengping and Zhang Guozuo. The term has ...
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Веретёнов В. А., Технологос 2023 № 2 С. 115–123
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Loesov S., Häberl C., Бромирская А. С., Journal of Semitic Studies 2026 Vol. 71 No. 2 P. 765–812
This contribution presents three excerpts from a Modern Western Aramaic interview collected in December 2020 in Maaloula, Syria. In the interview, the narrator relates his own biographical details, the legendary life of Thecla, and a personal account of a miraculous healing. The local traditions concerning Thecla feature distinctive motifs, including the miraculous opening of the ...
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Верняев И. И., Уральский исторический вестник 2026 Т. 92 № 3 С. 24–33
This article explores the factors driving the regional differentiation of judicial activity in the post-reform Russian Empire. The historiography is currently divided between two poles: the paradigm of legal dualism, which postulates the alienation of rural and non-Russian (inorodtsy) populations from the Crown courts, and the opposing thesis of mass grassroots legalism, large- ly verified ...
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Chronopoulos D., Вестник Омского университета. Серия: Исторические науки 2027 № 1
В 1863 г. в России отметили тысячелетие славянской письменности. Имперские власти и церковные деятели осознавали общеславянский характер праздника и его важность для «славянского вопроса». В общественной дискуссии фигуры Кирилла и Мефодия были мобилизованы для осмысления ключевых вопросов — от народного просвещения до обострившегося в связи с восстанием «Польского вопроса». Парадоксальным образом обращение к «общеславянскому» прошлому ...
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Pochekaev R. Y., Тутаев И. В., Христианское чтение 2026 № 3 С. 254–269
The article presents an attempt to clarify the general trends and analyze some specific examples of how the form and content of canon law documents in the 13th-15th centuries were affected by the fact that Russian lands were under the rule of the Golden Horde khans. The discussion covers such aspects as the types of ...
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Stoyanov R., Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 2026 Vol. 32 No. 1 P. 1–13
This study examines the fragment of an architectural block adorned with vegetal ornamentation which was discovered at the ancient settlement of Kepoi, situated in the Asiatic Bosporus on the northern coast of the Black Sea (fig. 1). The block’s façade features a spiraling vegetal motif rendered in high relief with exceptional detail (fig. 2). The ...
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Ivantchik A., Зайцев А. В., Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 2026 Vol. 86 No. 1 P. 141–152
This article publishes the inscriptions preserved on the funerary stele from Parion, discussed in the preceding article. The stele was used twice, and the Greek inscription, carved at the same time as the stele was created in the late second – early first century BC, was partly erased when it was re-used. It was reconstructed ...
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Istanbul: Ege Yayınları, 2025.
This volume presents the results of the first season of a Turkish–Russian–French research project at Parion, one of the most important Greek poleis on the southern shore of the Propontis, in the northern Troad. Archaeological excavations were carried out in July and August 2021 as part of an international project devoted to the multidisciplinary study ...
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Данилочкина К. С., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2026 Т. 1 № 30 С. 537–546
The article examines the issue of naming the wooden writing tablets from the Roman fort Vindolanda (late 1st - first quarter of the 2nd century AD), which represent a unique corpus of epistolary and documentary sources for the history of Roman Britain. Since their discovery in the 1970s, over a thousand specimens have been found, ...
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Chermoshentseva K., Человек: образ и сущность. Гуманитарные аспекты 2026 Т. - № 2(66) С. 227–243
The paper focuses on the system of metaphorical images used in modern English-language memoir narratives in prenatal and postnatal discourse. It reveals a set of social representations of pregnancy and childbirth, which act as a modeling factor for the formation of metaphorical images. The purpose of the study is to demonstrate the decisive role of ...
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Никитенко Д. Ю., RHEMA. РЕМА 2026 № 1 С. 188–207
This study explores a fragment of the accentual system of the Pskov dialect, with data obtained from both a corpus and fieldwork. The focus is on a-stem nouns (1st declension), with the accent types and stress patterns described. The accent types of nouns are presented in tables, while the stress patterns are given in a dictionary format, allowing for a combined approach to describing the dialect’s accentual system. Special attention is paid to stress placement in the accusativus singularis form of a number of words, which in this case ...
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Щавелев А. С., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2026 Т. 17 № 6(164) Статья 3
The present study considers a suite of insignia recovered from the large burial mound C‐74 (Serg‐1900) within the Gnezdovo archaeological complex, dated to the 10th century. The interment was performed in situ according to the cremation‐in‐boat rite. The richness of the grave assemblage, notably the presence of several paired high‐status items (two sets of horse ...
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Воробьёва О. А., Достоевский и мировая культура. Филологический журнал 2026 № 3 С. 230–246
The article examines the history of the creation of the radio play
Babulyenka, directed in 1968 by N.S. Sukhotskaya based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Gambler. An analysis of archival materials preserved in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI), including the typescript of the script, Sukhotskaya’s directorial notes, the working notes of F. G. ...
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Poddiakov A., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026. No. 7437658.
Clarity of knowledge and reasoning is necessary in many cases. Yet vagueness in scientific thinking related to surprise, curiosity, "ability to engage with not-knowing" (de Freitas) and abductive reasoning is also a crucially important source of scientific creativity which supplements combinatorial logic when dealing with the already known. Starting from studies by C. S. Peirce ...
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Ladynin I. A., Немировский А. А., Банщикова А. А. et al., М.: Издательство «Альма Матер», 2026.
В коллективной монографии подробно анализируются источники, связанные с предысторией, ходом и последствиями малоизвестного эпизода истории древнего Египта и Ближнего Востока – узурпации власти в Египте военачальником Амасисом у царя XXVI династии Априя (570-567 гг. до н.э.) и вмешательства в их противостояние вавилонского царя Навуходоносора II (567 г. до н.э.). Рассматривается значимость этого эпизода в восприятии ...
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Kudriavtseva E., / РЦИС. Серия № 0148-756-286. 2026.
The content of the work is the system is a system for identifying four types of written speech structures. A set of 11 calculated parameters, statistical standards, and semantic characteristics allows for the identification of a text's structure as the result of a specific cognitive schema (scene, event, story, evaluation). The method has been verified ...
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Vorchik A., / SSRN. Серия Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
This work is devoted to a theoretical explanation of the Easterlin paradox, according to which long-term economic growth does not make average level of people's happiness increasing. By happiness, we mean the intensity of emotions people experience while comparing their new income with its expected value, or the target income with its original value. In the first case, ...
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Ladynin I. A., В кн.: Сборник статей к юбилею Алексея Ивановича Солопова.: Р.Валент, 2025. С. 235–247.
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In the poem *Argonautica* by Apollonius of Rhodes, there is the following passage (IV. 253-290): Argus speaks of the route for the Argonauts’ return home, discovered by “priests… those who left Tritonian Thebes,” at a time when the “sacred race of the Danaans” was still unknown ...
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Крол А. А., Кузнецов Д. А., Ladynin I. A., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2026 № 1 С. 244–261
The publication presents a new translation and commentary of the Quban Stela of Ramesses II (Musée des beaux-arts Grenoble, Collection égyptienne, inv. 1937, 1969, 3565). This monument dates to the beginning of his reign (ca. 1287 BC); it was found near the ruins of the fortress of Baki, close to the Nubian village of Kuban. The composers of the ...
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Ladynin I. A., Дашкина А. Р., Проблемы истории, филологии, культуры 2026 № 1(91) С. 24–37
The article examines two aspects of the integration of Nubia (with particular attention to Lower Nubia) into the statehood of ancient Egypt during early antiquity (up to the end of the 2nd millennium BC). During the First and Second Intermediate Periods, Nubia demonstrates the adoption of Egyptian traditions of royal power, incorporating its territory into ...
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Ladynin I. A., Вестник древней истории 2024 Т. 84 № 1 С. 5–26
The article analyses a set of Classical evidence reflecting the Egyptian conquest of Bactria or its attempt (Diod. I. 46–47; Tac. Ann. II. 60. 3; Strabo XVII. 1. 46), a statement of Manetho of Sebennytos on the vast conquests of king Sethos-Ramesses (I) (Manetho. Frg. 50 = Ios. C.Ap. I. 15. § 98–102), and the ...
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