Results 21 to 30 of about 359,240 (341)
PLoS ONE, 2019 Abydos is a large, complex archaeological site located approximately 500 km south of Cairo in Upper Egypt. The site has served as a cemetery for thousands of years and is where most of the Early Dynastic royal tombs are located. North Abydos includes the
Ahmed M. Abdel-Azeem +4 more
semanticscholar +1 more source
Style and Shape of Bolgar-Tatar Sepulchral Monuments: unity and uniqueness
Поволжская археология, 2023 The installing of sepulchral monuments is not an obligatory element of funeral culture in Islam. However, this phenomenon is widespread among the Tatar people. The tradition, which appeared in ancient times, still exists today. This article discusses the
Mukhametshin Dzhamil G.
doaj +1 more source
Evocative computing – creating meaningful lasting experiences in connecting with the past [PDF]
, 2013 We present an approach – evocative computing – that demonstrates how ‘at hand’ technologies can be ‘picked up’ and used by people to create meaningful and lasting experiences, through connecting and interacting with the past. The approach is instantiated
J. McCarthy +9 more
core +5 more sources
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Background: Cemeteries workers are deserving of attention because they are exposed to various psychosocial risks: these workers are subject to painful contacts and daily exposed to a work content linked to death experiences and the emotions associated ...
Lara Colombo, Federica Emanuel, M. Zito
semanticscholar +1 more source
Additional Observations on \u3ci\u3eTachypompilus Ferrugineus\u3c/i\u3e With Emphasis on Male Behavior (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) [PDF]
, 2017 An aggregation of 11 males and 5 females of Tachypompilus ferrugineus was studied during August and September 1989 at a 2 m-high cemetery monument i Syracuse, NY. Male perching behavior and male-male and male-female interactions are described.
Kurczewski, Frank E
core +2 more sources
A monumental cemetery built by eastern Africa’s first herders near Lake Turkana, Kenya
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018 Significance Archaeologists have long sought monumental architecture’s origins among societies that were becoming populous, sedentary, and territorial. In sub-Saharan Africa, however, dispersed pastoralists pioneered monumental construction.
E. Hildebrand +14 more
semanticscholar +1 more source
, 2013 Like most other ancient cities, Ephesus was surrounded by large-scale necropoleis. Except for a few examples, the typical burial sites were located in extramural burial areas outside the Hellenistic city-walls.Sanitary precautions and fear of defilement readily explain this law.
openaire +2 more sources
Safeguarding the House of the Dead: Configurations of Risk and Protection in the Urban Cemetery
, 2020 In Lima's pueblos jovenes?the vast informal settlements that surround the city?migrants who settled there also founded graveyards Cemeteries are a natural socio-spatial extension of the settlements and houses that urbanites constructed with their own ...
C. Klaufus
semanticscholar +1 more source
Khor Shambat, Early Khartoum, Neolithic, cemetery, graves, settlement, pottery, lithic inventory, archaeozoology [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2017 The locality of Khor Shambat in the Omdurman district of Khartoum was investigated in 2012. The site lies between two gorges draining water to the Nile Valley from the west.
Przemysław Bobrowski +3 more
doaj +1 more source
Lidded Jar from Grave No. 40 at Tell El-Murra Cemetery
Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2021 The goal of the article is to provide data about a lidded jar discovered in a Tell el-Murra (Nile Delta) grave from the Early Dynastic period. Through the publication of the morphological and technological analysis of the lidded vessel and the details ...
Magdalena Kazimierczak
doaj +1 more source