Archaeologists uncovered a Byzantine city in Egypt's Dakhla Oasis with a basilica, 200 written records, coins, and well-planned streets.
Photos-Miracle in the desert: Entire, intact ancient city hidden in Egypt uncovered - Egypt Independent
Deep within Egypt’s Western Desert, the sands of the Dakhla Oasis have just surrendered a remarkably preserved secret. An Egyptian archaeological mission has discovered an entire, intact residential city dating back to the Byzantine era. Constructed entirely of mud brick at the Ain El-Sabeel site, the sprawling settlement offers a rare, cinematic window into what …
Archaeologists uncover ancient Byzantine city in Egypt’s western desert
Well-preserved fourth-century quarters reveal details of daily life, urban development and economic activities
Ancient lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert
A remarkably well preserved 1,600-year-old city complete with a church, watchtowers and bustling streets has been unearthed beneath Egypt's Western Desert.
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The world's oldest complete piece of surviving music is the 3,400-year-old Hurrian cult hymn. The hymn was found inscribed on clay tablets excavated from the ancient city of Ugarit, in modern-day Syria. Sometime after the hymn was composed, the idea of using notation to record music was lost. Writing two millennia later, in the seventh century CE, the polymath Isidore of Seville stated that “unless [musical] sounds are held by the memory of man, they perish, because they cannot be written down.”
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For 1,000 years, a cult worshipped the hero of the Odyssey
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Neither Corpus Nor Edition: Building a Pipeline to Make Data Analysis Possible on Medieval Arabic Commentary Traditions
We have built a suite of tools in Python to proficiently analyze text reuse and intertextuality for a specific kind of set of medieval Arabic texts (commentaries) available in print. We take these printed editions, scan them, pre-process the images, give it to an OCR engine, clean the results, and store it in a data structure that mimics the explicit intertextual relation the texts have, and continue to perform data analysis on it. Digital approaches to medieval Arabic texts have either been at the micro-level in what has become known as a ‘digital edition’, i.e. the digital representation of one text, densely annotated, most commonly in TEI-XML, or it has been done at the macro-level in what is called a ‘digital corpus’, consisting of thousands of loosely encoded and sparsely annotated plain text files, accompanied by an entire infrastructure and high-performing software to perform broadly scoped queries. The micro-level generally is at the level of tens of thousands of words while the macro-level can be at the level of over a billion words. The micro-level is explicitly designed to be human readable first, while the macro-level is built to be machine readable first. At the micro-level, every little detail needs to be correct and in order, while at the macro-level a fairly large margin of error is still negligible as a mere rounding error. Amidst these levels we have been seeking a meso-level of digital analysis: neither edition nor corpus, but rather a group of texts at the level of hundreds of thousands to millions of words, with a small but perceptible margin of error, and a light but noticeable level of annotations, principally geared towards machine readability, but with ample opportunity for visual inspection and manual correction. In this paper we explain the rationale for our approach, the technical achievements it has led us to, and the results we so far obtained.
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