He listed the territories he passed through in western and northern Arabia and in the Middle East, up to Palmyra and Mesopotamia. This text, assumed to date back to the third century AD (probably c .260–280), provides a unique picture of the political forces in the area and throws new...
Oman maintains a sophisticated network of modern highways connecting major cities, four international airports, and multiple seaports. The country's healthcare and education systems rank among the most advanced in the Middle East, with numerous public and private institutions serving the population. The...
Morocco occupies the northwestern corner of Africa, covering an area of 446,550 square kilometers. The country borders Algeria to the east, Western Sahara to the south, the Mediterranean Sea to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Its strategic location at the Strait of Gibraltar ...
in Jiangsu Province. Set on the shores of Lake Tai and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the city is full of prettycanalsand stone bridges; leading to its nickname, the ‘Venice of the East‘.
From 1200 BC to 500 AD, through the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, migrations brought people into Western Europe. The people who settled in the areas in and around modern-day France were called the Gauls. The Gauls, however, were not one state but rather a collection of tribes who share...
We explored the population genetic properties of SVs among five continental groups—Africa (AFR), the Americas (AMR), East Asia (EAS), Europe (EUR) and South Asia (SAS). The bulk of SVs occur at low frequency (65% exhibit VAF < 0.2%) consistent amongst individual SV classes (Extended ...
The USA is a big place. Really big. Within the wide-open spaces of the contiguous United States, as well as Alaska and the far-flung islands of Hawaii, there's just about every climate and ecosystem you can imagine; from temperate rainforests and pine-cl
This paper is a first presentation of a Chinese Map of the World or Kunyutu 坤輿圖 discovered in a Federal library in Berne in 2017. It focusses on the rendering of the 7000 characters contained within the map. The translation of the complete 112 text blocks on the map will be provided...
The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) contains populations of GABAergic interneurons that play different roles in cognition and emotion. Their local and long-range inputs are incompletely understood. We used monosynaptic rabies viral tracers in combination
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