Historie a kultura asijských zemí
2018
The main goal of this volume is to describe the history and culture of
civilizations which developed on an extensive territory, including the
Near East as well as some territories in Central and South Asia. Experts
from various scientific institutions in the Czech Republic as well as in
Slovakia who have long been involved in the study of the cultures on
this territory present here the results of their research projects which
are devoted to various aspects of the historical development. The main
topic of the majority of the projects is the study of the cultures of Asia
in the antiquity, but also some problems connected with the present
developments are mentioned as well.
Pavel Kral in his paper describes the development of settlement
patterns in the area of Mosul in northern Mesopotamia in the Early
Bronze period. Also the contribution by Kateřina Saskova is related to
the history of ancient Mesopotamia. The author thouroughly studies
the written sources that mention the treatment of the illness from
which the Assyrian king Asarhaddon (680–669 B.C.) suffered. Michal
Habaj evaluates a wide range of written sources pertaining to the
history of Scythians and tries to reconstruct the ways in which that
ethnic group is portrayed in the classical historiographic work by
Herodotus. On the other hand, the paper presented by David Rafael
Moulis is based primarily on the archaeological data. Its main goal is
to reconstruct the ritual offerings that were deposited under the floor
of various buildings in order to protect those buildings as well as their inhabitants. Other papers are devoted to more recent topics. Katarina
Somodiova studies the contemporary communities of Mandaeans
in Khuzistan (Iran) as well as in some European countries (Germany
and Denmark). The contribution by Simona Leva Jandova leads us to
the region of Southern India and describes the traditional Tamil tales
called Kuravanji. The region of Central Asia is represented by the study
performed by Tomas Retka who analyzes the linguistic situation in the
contemporary Republic of Tajikistan.
The texts of the individual papers were presented at the 16th
colloquium Orientalia Antiqua Nova which was organized by the
Department of Middle East Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy and
Arts of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen in April 2016. We
believe that the present publication will be useful to the wide scientific
public which is interested in the development of civilizations in Asia.
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