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Theoretical reconstruction of the Solar Altar in the Hatshepsut Temple at Deir el-Bahari [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2017
In a recent article Andrzej Ćwiek (2015) criticized on ideological grounds one of the hypotheses concerning the reconstruction of the Solar Altar in the Complex of the Sun Cult of the Temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari. The theoretical reconstruction
Teresa Dziedzic
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The solar altar in the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari:architecture and ideology [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2016
In a recent article Teresa Dziedzic presented a theoretical reconstruction of the solar altarin the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, with two obelisks standing on the top of it.
Andrzej Ćwiek
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Out There No One Has a Right to Die. [PDF]

open access: yesBioethics
ABSTRACT The eventual goal of space exploration is to colonize exoplanets and their moons outside our solar system. This is a dangerous and immoral endeavour. The extraterrestrial life forms encountered would be hostile, vulnerable or both, and the descendants of the original pioneers would be involuntarily exposed to hazardous conditions and ...
Häyry M.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Water as Country on the Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, South Australia

open access: yesOceania, Volume 93, Issue 3, Page 246-258, November 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT Anangu, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people living in the north‐western areas of South Australia, conceptualize changes in the surface of land as evincing the presence of Ancestral power. Rain is one such catalyst of change, though it is by no means a certainty on the Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands.
Diana Young
wiley   +1 more source

Stonehenge and Avebury: Megalithic shadow casting at the solstices at sunrise

open access: yesJournal of Lithic Studies, 2017
The paper examines how specific megaliths at Stonehenge and Avebury were positioned relative to others and to particular sunrises such as to produce watchable effects arising from solar movement and resulting lithic shadows.
G. Terence Meaden
doaj   +1 more source

Whatever happened to municipal radicalism?

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 603-618, September 2023., 2023
Short Abstract What can the municipal state do to radically transform urban economies? Community wealth building, cooperative development and foundational economy approaches are fast gaining traction in municipalities across the UK, an entrepreneurial reinvention of 1980s municipal radicalism.
Matthew Thompson
wiley   +1 more source

New Light on the Relationship between the Montecitorio Obelisk and Ara Pacis of Augustus

open access: yesStudies in Digital Heritage, 2017
The article takes as its point of departure recent work (Frischer forthcoming) critiquing the theory of Edmund Buchner about the relationship of the gnomonical instrument known as the Horologium Augusti and the Ara Pacis Augustae.
Bernard Frischer
doaj   +1 more source

Un basurero romano en Madrid

open access: yesEspacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie I, Prehistoria y Arqueología, 1997
Basurero de época romana fiallado en el solar del Colegio Mayor N- Sra. de África. Los materiales se depositaron en un mismo momento cronológico y constituyen un importante lote de cerámicas de época romana: térra sigillata hispánica, térra sigillata ...
Carmen Guiral Pelegrín
doaj   +1 more source

Sun temple of Nyuserre in Abu Ghurab: Report of the 2017 season [PDF]

open access: yesPražské Egyptologické Studie, 2018
The article presents the results of the 2017 archaeological season in the sun temple of Nyuserre in Abu Ghurab. The works especially focused on three areas, namely the central obelisk, the alabaster altar, and the accumulation of limestone blocks in the ...
Massimiliano Nuzzolo   +7 more
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CULTURAL FUSION IN LATE BRONZE AGE GOLDWORK: DIADEMS AND MOUTH‐PIECES FROM HALA SULTAN TEKKE, CYPRUS

open access: yesOxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 151-179, May 2026.
Summary This study investigates recently discovered gold diadems and mouth‐pieces from seven chamber tombs and one shaft tomb at the Late Bronze Age cemetery of Hala Sultan Tekke, dating from the fifteenth to the thirteenth centuries BC. The chamber tombs, all containing multi‐generational burials, yielded a variety of ornaments, which are analysed in ...
Peter M. Fischer
wiley   +1 more source

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