are an undisputable manifestation of a society's respect or disrespect towards its immediate past. Their inherent fixation towards the past is perhaps one of the reasons for the burial practices being so

"The Attitude of Islam towards Archaeology": Ein Vortrag in englischer Sprache von Prof. Dr. Gaballa Ali Gaballa (University of Cairo) am 18. Oktober, 18.15 Uhr im KWI, Essen Die Heiligenverehrung ist

da-Inschriften münden. Förderung und Laufzeit Das Vorhaben »The Proto-Sarada Project: Towards the edition of a new collection of administrative letters and documents from pre-modern South Asia«

seine Dissertation »The palaeoproteomic identification of Pleistocene hominin skeletal remains: towards a biological understanding of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition« ausgezeichnet. In dieser

geben. Bald werden sie in einem virtuellen Museum zu besichtigen sein, dank des EU-Projekts TARCHNA (Towards Archaeological Heritage Neuw Accessibility). Von der Ruhr-Universität in Bochum ist Dr. Cornelia

problem is the idea that Judaism is somehow incomparable to its fellow Græco-Roman religions; the move towards seeing Judaism and indigenous Greco-Roman religions of the Mediterranean as belonging to the same [...] Judaism is somehow isolationist in its community relations is anachronistic, and displays a bias towards the sources of late antiquity while not taking into account earlier evidence from the centuries both [...] behave very much as if they are ordinary Greeks or Romans; that is, they form associations focused towards their particular needs, pay dues to that organization, establish a building in which its members

zu Grundfragen der Musik, 51 (Bonn 1988) Lawson, G. (1986): Conservation versus Restoration: towards a handling and performance policy for excavated musical instruments, with special reference to microwear

Menagerie zum Tierpark. Berlin : Wagenbach. Holtorf, Cornelius und Van Reybrouck, David (2003) Towards an Archaeology of Zoos. International Zoo News 50, 207-215 sowie: www.zoonews.ws/IZN/325/IZN-325

abstract ideals of Roman military prowess that become associated with the tradition. This tendency toward an emphasis on the symbolism as opposed to the reality of the triumph can be observed in the way [...] a combination of the visual and social traditions connected with the Roman triumph may be a step towards comprehending the “unity of inherited culture” that, according to Nock, gives the imagery on sarcophagi

Similarly, proceeding from Vernant's remarks, we can indeed observe also a different Greek attitude toward the stone, consisting in the search for an immediate communication - and not a simple memory relationship [...] of the idea and practice of initiation in mystery religion and cults, as well as their interest toward the afterworld's life, are well-known, and the results of our enquiry about the stone is not in contrast [...] the stone, as we have seen, are maybe more useful to understand some aspects of the Greek attitude toward the death. Features and functions of the stone as mythical 'image' change according to different