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Doctrinal Impact on the Function of Funerary Architecture in Fatimid Egypt

open access: yesJournal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hospitality, 2014
The arrival of the Fatimid conquerors to Egypt was a turning point which brought forth a radical impact on both political and religious sides of life. Coming from quite a different doctrinal background, the Fatimids had a predominating aim to spread their beliefs between the Egyptian populace.
Radwa Omar
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Main characteristics of burial complexes of Central Kazakhstan in the Late Bronze Age [PDF]

open access: yesВестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2023
The main factual basis of the research comprised the materials of 25 necropoleis of the Late Bronze Age examined in the Karaganda and Ulytau regions of Central Kazakhstan. The total number of the investigated burials amounts to 167 individual structures.
Kukushkin I.A.
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The Medieval Muslim Cemeteries of Tigray (Ethiopia)

open access: yesRevue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2023
The discovery (or rediscovery) and the archaeological excavation of the medieval Muslim cemetery of Bilet (Tigray, Ethiopia) in 2018, made it possible to study for the first time in the northern highlands of Ethiopia, the funerary architecture and burial
Simon Dorso, Anna Lagaron
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Small Houses of the Dead: A Model of Collective Funerary Activity in the Chalcolithic Tombs of Southwestern Iberia. La Orden-Seminario Site (Huelva, Spain)

open access: yesOpen Archaeology, 2023
This study analyses the funerary activity of small collective tombs with a limited number of individuals in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula during the Copper Age.
Linares-Catela José Antonio   +1 more
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Water and architecture. Power and poetry in Keushu

open access: yesDearq, 2022
The relationship between water and the built environment at the anthropic lagoon of Keushu in northern Peru, evinces, on one hand, the characteristics behind funerary architecture and their symbolic dimension bound to the landscape, and on the other, the
Daniel Alberto Vargas Torres
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Enclosures of Death in the Early Iron Age

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2021
This article focuses on the study of the Early Iron Age necropolis of Esfola, taking into account the burial rituals of the site (the architecture, the funerary objects and the human skeletal analyses are dealt with in the context of ‘burial ritual ...
Linda Melo, Ana Maria Silva
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Les Reliades au Puy-en-Velay (Haute-Loire) : un édicule funéraire en matériaux périssables du début du iie s. apr. J.-C.

open access: yesGallia, 2018
During a rescue excavation carried out in 2012 on the site of Les Reliades in Le Puy-en-Velay (Haute-Loire), a small funerary monument built on wooden poles dated to the second century was unearthed.
Bertrand Bonaventure, Marie-Josée Ancel
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Images of Music and Musicians as Indicators of Status, Wealth and Political Power on Roman Funerary Monuments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Untersuchungen bildlicher Darstellungen von Musikinstrumenten sowie Musikantinnen und Musikanten haben ergeben, dass sie in Grabkontexten benutzt wurden, um auf den Wohlstand sowie den politischen oder sozialen Status der verstorbenen Person oder ihrer ...
Alexandrescu, Cristina-Georgeta
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