Topographical investigation and magnetometer prospection of the Agighiol tumulus, Tulcea County (4th century BC) by Zickgraf, B., Riese, T., Teleaga, E.

The healing hand: the role of women in ancient medicine by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“… In contrast with the struggle of 19th and 20th century women all over the world to be admitted to medical schools, women in ancient Greece and Rome were apparently increasingly at liberty to practise medicine from the 4th century BC onwards. The available evidence offers conclusive proof of this more tolerant attitude. …”
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La représentation des tueries de soldats en déroute dans le monde grec (VIe-IVe siècles) by Amarande Laffon

“…This study focuses on ancient representations of Greek hoplite battles between the 6th and the 4th century BC. It presents the literary motifs that contribute to attributing features typical of massacres to some killings of routed soldiers and justify their integration into a dedicated typology of massacres.…”
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Burial customs, the afterlife and the pollution of death in ancient Greece by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…This study investigates the views on disposing of the dead which were prevalent from the 8th to the 4th century BC in Greece, and in Attica in particular. …”
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Exploitation végétale des oasis d’Arabie by Charlène Bouchaud

“…The recent excavations of Madâ’in Sâlih, ancient Hegra, have revealed the existence of a city inhabited from the 4th century BC and occupied during the Nabataean, Roman and Late Antique periods before its abandonment around the beginning of the 7th century AD. …”
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(Re)discovering Street A in Nea Paphos, Cyprus. Results of Trial Trench III at Maloutena (season 2021) by Michał Michalik, Małgorzata Kajzer, Urszula Wicenciak, Jerzy Oleksiak, Kamila Niziołek, Ewdoksia Papuci-Władyka

“…More than 15000 pottery fragments representing a chronology ranging from the Late Classical (4th century BC) to the Byzantine period (7th century AD) were examined in their stratigraphic contexts in order to clarify the sequence observed during the excavations. …”
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Evaluating the Biodeterioration Enzymatic Activities of Fungal Contamination Isolated from Some Ancient Yemeni Mummies Preserved in the National Museum by Khalid Mohammed Naji, Qais Yusuf M. Abdullah, Aida Qaseem M. AL-Zaqri, Saeed M. Alghalibi

“…Sophisticated mummification using chemical preservation was prevalent in ancient Yemeni civilization as noted in the 4th century B.C. mummies of the National Museum of Yemen, Sana’a, used in this study. …”
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The evolution of hospitals from Antiquity to the Renaissance by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…One would expect to find the origin of the hospital in the modern sense of the word in Greece, the birthplace of rational medicine in the 4th century BC, but the Hippocratic doctors paid house-calls, and the temples of Asclepius were visited for incubation sleep and magico-religious treatment. …”
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Hippocrates: facts and fiction by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…The textual tradition and the composition of the socalled Corpus Hippocraticum, the collection of medical works written mainly in the 5th and 4th centuries BC (of which possibly only about five can be ascribed to Hippocrates himself) are discussed. …”
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