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Aaradh Nepal and Francesco Perono Cacciafoco
During the Bronze Age, the inhabitants of regions of Crete, mainland Greece, and Cyprus inscribed their languages using, among other scripts, a writing system called Linear A. These symbols, mainly characterized by combinations of lines, have, since thei...
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Andreas N. Angelakis, Andrea G. Capodaglio, Cees W. Passchier, Mohammad Valipour, Jens Krasilnikoff, Vasileios A. Tzanakakis, Gül Sürmelihindi, Alper Baba, Rohitashw Kumar, Benoît Haut, Maria G. Roubelakis, Zhang Min and Nicholas Dercas
Contaminated water and poor sanitation are associated with disease transmission. Absent, inadequate, or improperly managed water resources and sanitation systems expose individuals to preventable health risks. Billions of people lack access to these basi...
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Triantafyllia G. Nikolaou, Ioannis Christodoulakos, Panagiotis G. Piperidis and Andreas N. Angelakis
In this article, several archaeological, historical and other aspects of aqueducts in Crete, Greece, since the prehistoric times until today, are reviewed and presented. In Crete, since the Minoan era, various water management techniques that are found i...
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José M. Abril and Raúl Periáñez
The reliability of the narrative of the Biblical Exodus has been subject of heated debate for decades. Recent archaeological studies seem to provide new insight of the exodus path, and although with a still controversial chronology, the effects of the Mi...
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Andreas N. Angelakis, Giovanni De Feo, Pietro Laureano and Anastasia Zourou
The aim of this study is to present water and wastewater technologies used during the Minoan (ca. 3200?1100 BC) and Etruscan (ca. 800?100 BC) civilizations. The basic technologies considered are: water harvesting and distribution systems, cisterns, groun...
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Giovanni De Feo, Andreas N. Angelakis, Georgios P. Antoniou, Fatma El-Gohary, Benoît Haut, Cees W. Passchier and Xiao Yun Zheng
The aim of this paper is to present the evolution of aqueduct technologies through the millennia, from prehistoric to medieval times. These hydraulic works were used by several civilizations to collect water from springs and to transport it to settlement...
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Larry Mays, George P. Antoniou and Andreas N. Angelakis
The use of water cisterns has been traced back to the Neolithic Age; this paper thus presents a brief historical development of water cisterns worldwide over the last 5500 years. This paper is not an exhaustive presentation of all that is known today abo...
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Konstantinos S. Voudouris, Yiannis Christodoulakos, Emmanouil Steiakakis and Andreas N. Angelakis
In ancient Hellas, water management began in the early Minoan Era (ca. 3200?1100 BC) and was related to the geomorphology, the geology, the topography, and the local climatic, hydrological, and socio-political conditions. Historical and archaeological ev...
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