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Theoretical reconstruction of the Solar Altar in the Hatshepsut Temple at Deir el-Bahari [PDF]
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]
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]
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.
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Water as Country on the Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, South Australia
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
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Stonehenge and Avebury: Megalithic shadow casting at the solstices at sunrise
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
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Whatever happened to municipal radicalism?
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
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New Light on the Relationship between the Montecitorio Obelisk and Ara Pacis of Augustus
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
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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
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Sun temple of Nyuserre in Abu Ghurab: Report of the 2017 season [PDF]
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
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
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