Written sources indicate that by the third century BCE Abusir el-Meleq was at the centre of a wider region that comprised the northern part of the Herakleopolites province, and had close ties with the Fayum and the Memphite provinces, involving the transport of wheat, cattle-breeding, bee...
A recent study of ancient and modern elephants has come up with the unexpected conclusion that the African elephant is pided into two distinct (不同的) species.The discovery was made by researchers at York and Harvard universities when they were examining the genetic relationship between the ancie...
Generally, the staples were various grains, often used in a sort of porridge known as puls, and breads made from a species of wheat known as frumentum. There was no such thing as pasta in ancient Rome! Panem et puls were the go-tos! Beans and lentils were also staples, and research ...
The history of aDNA research The first use of ancient DNA (aDNA) dates back to 1984, where dried muscle tissue from an extinct species was sequenced from museum specimens for the first time6. Since then, aDNA studies have allowed for a unique look back in time, into the genomic content...
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The name of a vegetable substance was characterized by the determinative for herbaceous plants, a species of tree by the silhouette of a sycamore, and a woody material by a branch. The combination of two or three determinatives increased the degree of semantic precision of the written word. ...
The evolution of the flowering plant genomes has been intensively studied since the completion of the genome sequence for several angiosperm species. Lineage-specific whole-genome duplications greatly contributed to the expansion of plant genomes and gene families (for examples, see [3–9]), with ...
In addition, the Egyptians had a great interest in, and knowledge of, most species of mammals, birds, reptiles, and fish in their environment. Most Egyptians were probably descended from settlers who moved to the Nile valley in prehistoric times, with population increase coming through natural ...
It has expanded known geographical distributions of cereal crop species and documented a wide number of uses, including ritual purposes, as a subsistence supplement, as a source of animal fodder, as well as a major productive focus. Of great interest is the variable timing of cereal adoptions ...
of a wider region that comprised the northern part of the Herakleopolites province, and had close ties with the Fayum and the Memphite provinces, involving the transport of wheat, cattle-breeding, bee-keeping and quarrying42. In the early Roman Period, the site appears to have been the ...