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TEMPLE AND SURYA IN OC EO CULTURE IN SOUTHERN VIETNAM
Tạp chí Khoa học Đại học Đà Lạt, 2019 Belief in the Surya of India was adopted into Oc Eo culture in Southern Vietnam from the 2nd century BC to the 7th century AD and existed until the end of Oc Eo culture from 7th century AD to 12th century AD.
Đặng Văn Thắng, Nguyễn Hữu Lý
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Chemistry of ancient materials of iron in India
Applied Surface Science Advances, 2023 India is acclaimed for its rich heritage of iron making at least since the protohistoric era. The ancient artisans were able to create iron artefacts possessing outstanding characteristics, which demonstrates the level of expertise they had attained in ...
Nityananda Agasti, Balaram Pani
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Approaching Skyscape Archaeology: A Note on Method and Fieldwork for the Case Study of Pompeii
Groma, 2021 The urban layout of Pompeii presents several orientations, possibly due to an uneven bare ground plateau. However, its main east-west axes have the same orientation of Herculaneum ones, suggesting that not only geomorphological constrains acted as ...
Ilaria Cristofaro, Michele Silani
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The sky from the high terrace. study on the orientation of the Ziqqurat in Ancient Mesopotamia [PDF]
, 2016 The ziqqurat is the symbol of the Mesopotamian sacred architecture in the western thought. This monument, standardized at the end of the III millennium BC by the kings of the Third Dynasty of Ur, has changed during the history of Mesopotamia its shape ...
NADALI, Davide, Polcaro, Andrea
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Archaeoastronomy in the Khmer heartland [PDF]
, 2016 The heartland of the Khmer empire is literally crowded by magnificent monuments built in the course of many centuries. These monuments include the world-famous state-temples, such as Angkor Wat, but also many other temples and huge water reservoirs ...
Magli, Giulio
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Plants, 2022 Taxodium hybrid Zhongshanshan has been widely planted in the Yangtze River Basin (YRB) for soil and carbon conservation, with quantities over 50 million. The objective of this study was to determine how T.
Qin Shi +8 more
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The influence of religious and cosmological beliefs on the solar architecture of the ancient world [PDF]
, 2014 In the earliest civilizations of the Ancient World, sun worship developed in parallel with an understanding of the movement of the stars. That was the origin of an architecture that expressed a number of religious and cosmological beliefs.
Fumadó Alsina, Joan Lluís +2 more
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A BIM APPROACH FOR THE ANALYSIS OF AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL MONUMENT [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2019 In 2010 an Italian team started new on-field investigations in the area of the Sun Temple of Niuserra, 6 km south of the pyramids of Giza. The archaeological research was planned to re-examine the monument after its discovery in 1898. The work was
A. Bosco +3 more
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The sea in Sumerian literature [PDF]
, 2020 Surveying the references to the sea in Sumerian literature, this paper discusses the general idea that the sea is underrepresented in Mesopotamian cultures of the third millennium BCE.
Lorenzo Verderame
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THE ROLE OF URBAN TOPOGRAPHY IN THE ORIENTATION OF GREEK TEMPLES: THE CASES OF AKRAGAS AND SELINUNTE [PDF]
, 2016 It is well known that the vast majority of the Greek temples of Sicily are oriented to the rising sun. However the factors which influenced the specific orientation of each temple or of each group of temples can be of various nature and no general key ...
Andrea Orlando +2 more
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