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High-Resolution 3D Structural Documentation of the Saqqara Pyramids, Egypt, Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Integrated Geomatics Techniques for Heritage Preservation

open access: yesRemote Sensing
Accurate 3D documentation of large and complex structures is essential for long-term stability assessment, structural monitoring, and conservation planning, particularly for heritage sites exposed to environmental and anthropogenic threats.
Abdelhamid Elbshbeshi   +2 more
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Rethinking 'cattle cults' in early Egypt: Towards a prehistoric perspective on the Narmer Palette [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The Narmer Palette occupies a key position in our understanding of the transition from Predynastic to Dynastic culture in Egypt. Previous interpretations have focused largely upon correspondences between its decorative content and later conventions of ...
Wengrow, D
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Džedkareův pyramidový komplex: nové doklady o konci 5. dynastie | Djedkare’s pyramid complex: new evidence on the late Fifth Dynasty [PDF]

open access: yesPražské Egyptologické Studie, 2019
The pyramid complex of King Djedkare in South Saqqara is a key monument for our understanding of the history of the late Fifth and early Sixth Dynasties and of the social and religious transformations of that period.
Mohamed Megahed
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Dirt, purity, and spatial control: anthropological perspectives on Ancient Egyptian Society and Culture in the Middle Kingdom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The concepts of purity and pollution were central to the maintenance of social boundaries in ancient Egyptian culture. Anthropological approaches, in particular the work of Mary Douglas, are useful in examining their impact on social structure and ...
Maitland, Margaret
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Mobile spectroscopic instrumentation in archaeometry research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Mobile instrumentation is of growing importance to archaeometry research. Equipment is utilized in the field or at museums, thus avoiding transportation or risk of damage to valuable artifacts.
Donais, MK, Vandenabeele, Peter
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Danzas natales en las tumbas del Reino Antiguo [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
En algunas tumbas de particulares del Reino Antiguo figuran escenas de baile por parejas cuya interpretación, pese a que varios autores se hayan ocupado de estudiarlas, todavía ofrece notables dificultades por lo escueto de su desarrollo y la oscuridad ...
Borrego Gallardo, Francisco L.
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Credibility, civility, and the archaeological dig house in mid-1950’s Egypt [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This article argues that forms of civility governing who possessed the credibility to carry out archaeological fieldwork in Egypt changed during the post-Second World War era of decolonization.
Carruthers, William
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The Transitional Type of Tomb at Saqqara North and Abusir South [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The recent discoveries of the Czech mission show clearly that Abusir formed with Saqqara a single geographical unit in ancient Egypt and that the modern separation of them is outdated. Abusir seems to have played the crucial role as the last area into which the necropolis expanded after exhausting the space occuppied by the Archaic Cemetery of North ...
openaire  

Emigdiano Blues: The California Indigenous Pigment Palette and an In Situ Analysis of an Exotic Colour [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The Native inhabitants of South Central California produced rock art containing red, orange, black, white, green and blue colours using a range of mineral and organic materials.
Bedford, Clare   +2 more
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International Conference. 20th Century New Towns. Archetypes and Uncertainties [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Producción CientíficaThe paper aims to revalue and to compare two urban phenomena of growth and change during the second half of the 20th century: the Mat Building and the Gated City.
Rincón Borrego, Iván Israel
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