However, there are no known year-names or other archaeological evidence verifying any of these later kings of Akkad or Uruk, apart from a single artifact referencing king Dudu of Akkad.

It has been suggested that the apparent variations in marine biodiversity may actually be an artifact, with abundance estimates directly related to quantity of rock available for sampling from different time periods.

* Gentlemen of Fortune, a kindergarten principal played by Evgeni Leonov pretends to be a criminal boss called the Professor ( who looks exactly like him ) in order to gain information about a stolen artifact from the Professor's two lackeys.

The Tome of Power artifact made a return from Heretic.

Archaeologists say the artifact is a 1st century Middle Eastern stone vessel, possibly from Antioch, Syria ( now Turkey ); its history can be traced to the 11th century, and it now rests atop an ornate stem and base, made in the Medieval era of alabaster, gold, and gemstones.

However, this is now known to be an artifact of long-branch attraction — they are derived groups and retain genes or organelles derived from mitochondria ( e. g., mitosomes and hydrogenosomes ).

Representations of the seven branched artifact have been found on tombs and monuments dating from the 1st century as a frequently used symbol of Judaism and the Jewish people.

" While on the station, Q gives hints to help the crew keep their station from being destroyed by an artifact that has been brought aboard it.

It is the energy of the sun, falling for the first time on the uncovered artifact, that triggers the signal that creatures from the Earth had taken the first step into space.

Alkon later qualifies this by writing, " It would be stretching our generosity to praise Madden for being the first to show a traveler arriving from the future ", but also says that Madden " deserves recognition as the first to toy with the rich idea of time-travel in the form of an artifact sent backwards from the future to be discovered in the present.

The current ASD classification is to some extent an artifact of how autism was discovered, and may not reflect the true nature of the spectrum ; methodological problems have beset Asperger syndrome as a valid diagnosis from the outset.

* Lithic core, in archaeology, a stone artifact left over from toolmaking

This is a historical artifact from when the superior trial court in common law jurisdictions was called the " supreme court " ( which still exists in some jurisdictions, such as Australia ).

This is used as a plot element in the episode Time's Arrow where Data's head ( an artifact excavated on Earth from the late 19th century ) is reattached to his body after nearly 500 years.

In general, it relies on the facts that creating a forgery indistinguishable from a genuine artifact requires expert knowledge, that mistakes are easily made, and that the amount of effort required to do so is considerably greater than the amount of profit that can be gained from the forgery.

External records have their own problems of forgery and perjury, and are also vulnerable to being separated from the artifact and lost.

While political propaganda or personal emphasis may have somewhat distorted the historical accuracy of the story, the Bayeux tapestry presents a unique visual document of medieval arms, apparel, and other objects unlike any other artifact surviving from this period.

" It is not known how this Russian Orthodox artifact from Kodiak, Alaska made its way to a Catholic mission in Southern California.

palantíri ) is a magical artifact from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy legendarium.

An artifact from this time is an experimental film Ensslin participated in entitled Das Abonnement ( The Subscription ).< ref >

* The season 4 episode of Warehouse 13, Endless Wonder, featured a bowl carved from the ruins of the Colossus as the main artifact of the episode.

An image ( from ) is an artifact that depicts or records visual perception, for example a two-dimensional picture, that has a similar appearance to some subject – usually a physical object or a person, thus providing a depiction of it.

He is hired by J ' onn J ' onzz to investigate Vandal Savage's company, which is searching for a Martian artifact.

Its paper seems to be ancient, and the influential Mayanist Michael D. Coe believed the artifact to be genuine ; but other eminent Mayanists such as J. E. S.

Similar to the view of Leopold Kronecker that " God made the integers ; all else is the work of man ," musicians drawn to the alphorn and other instruments that sound the natural harmonics, such as the natural horn, consider the notes of the natural harmonic series — particularly the 7th and 11th harmonics — to be God's Notes, the remainder of the chromatic scale enabled by keys, valves, slides and other methods of changing the qualities of the simple open pipe being an artifact of mere mortals.

It is a unique narrative that effectively links the domination of the soul to contemporaneous advances in the field of Egyptology such as the 1894 excavation of the Narmer Palette, an ancient artifact used for situating the rebus within hermeneutics.

Parfitt had this artifact radio-carbon dated to about 1350, which coincided with the sudden end of the Great Zimbabwe civilization.

A museum should carefully monitor the condition of collections to determine when an artifact requires conservation work and the services of a qualified conservator.

The image to the right was discovered in Sudan, which is the contemporary name for the territory of Nubia during the period in which the artifact was made, during the 4th century BC.

It is likely to be an artifact of the flourishing culture of Meroë, successors to the culture of Kush, because of the use of Egyptian hieroglyphs and cartouches.

Larger vacuoles encircling neurons, vessels, and glia are a possible processing artifact.

The idea of an artifact made conscious is an ancient theme of mythology, appearing for example in the Greek myth of Pygmalion, who carved a statue that was magically brought to life, and in medieval Jewish stories of the Golem, a magically animated homunculus built of clay.

From the source assignment of the artifact further investigations can be made into the site of manufacture.

It had been the capital of Wessex under Alfred the Great, and boasted the Winchester Round Table, an artifact constructed in the 13th century but widely believed to be the original by Malory's time.

* Use-centered design, which focuses on the goals and tasks associated with the use of the artifact, rather than focusing on the end user.

* User-centered design, which focuses on the needs, wants, and limitations of the end user of the designed artifact.

Dolphins are among the most intelligent animals, and their often friendly appearance, an artifact of the " smile " of their mouthline, and seemingly playful attitude have made them very popular in human culture.

In both the book and movie 2001, astronaut and scientist David Bowman is on a mission to track the source of an alien artifact found on the moon, which leads to a moon around the planet Jupiter ( in the novel, Saturn ); the story takes place in the year 2001.

Both Skaro and the Imperial Dalek mothership are apparently destroyed ( in the future ) when the Seventh Doctor tricks Davros into using the Time Lord artifact known as the Hand of Omega which makes Skaro's Sun go supernova.

According to a controversial theory, the Parthians may have had knowledge of electroplating, based on the 1936 discovery of the Baghdad Battery, which resembles a galvanic cell, though it is uncertain whether the artifact was electrical in nature.

This is the only known surviving artifact of Eleanor's.

In many cases, it is unknown whether a particular " disease " has one, several, or no underlying biological causes, with controversy arising over whether some diseases are merely an artifact of the attempt to construct a unified classification scheme, rather than a " real " disease.

On the follow-up album Discovery, the logo became a small glowing artifact on top of a treasure chest.

Similarly, finite-duration functions can be represented as a Fourier series, with no actual loss of information except that the periodicity of the inverse transform is a mere artifact.

The next day, a young man named Takuya Fujita is detained after stealing an ancient artifact.

Primary issues concerning the existence and cause of climate change include the reasons for the increase in global average air temperature, whether the warming trend is unprecedented or within normal climatic variations, whether humankind has contributed significantly to it, and whether the increase is wholly or partially an artifact of poor measurements.