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Construction of a Temple with Regard to the Rising Sun Ray
Light & Engineering, 2021Using the example of a number of cultural traditions, the author considers a construction of the temple structure along a rising sun ray. There are two main types of temples built according to the rising sun ray: the temples oriented towards the sunrise by their sanctuaries, and the temples oriented towards the sunrise by the entrance portal.
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A sun-shade temple of Princess Ankhesenpaaten in Memphis?
The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 2011Publication of the Amarna period block MRAH inv. 4491, part of a sloping balustrade perhaps from a sun-shade temple of Princess Ankhesenpaaten in Memphis. The inscription is noteworthy for containing a unique instance of the re-carving of the name of Aten from form IIa to either IIb or III. There follows an excursus on the Memphite ‘Horizon of Aten’.
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House of the Sun: The Inka Temple of Vilcanota
Latin American Antiquity, 1995Although the ceremonial center of Vilcanota was called the third most important temple in the Inka empire in the sixteenth century, its exact location and meaning have remained matters of conjecture. In this article I examine historical and archaeological information which demonstrates that the temple was located at the pass of La Raya.
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Original Anatomy of the Temple: Sun Temple Konark, India
International Journal of Architectural Heritage, 2021Anahita Joshi, Ankita Srivastava
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The Movement of Seals in the Temple of Two Suns
Amerasia Journal, 2006At the Cambodian New Year celebration my father wanders off alone to browse the tables of merchants, and shifts through plastic mailroom containers, hoping to stumble upon the latest imported Khmer movie or karaoke DVD he has yet to see. We are under the sweltering sun amongst hundreds of gatherers, next to a makeshift-Buddhist temple (an old two-story
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Decay of building stones: a mineralogical model for Konark Sun Temple, India
Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology, 1993Abstract The rapid decay of the famous sun temple at Konark is mainly due to the use of a highly weatherable khondalite rock as the construction material. A computer based weathering model indicates that the measured porosity of 7 to 8 0n weathered khondalite could have been produced if an original rock with 3 : 1 quartz to garnet weight ...
B. C. Raymahashay, S. Sharma
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Martanda Sun Temple, Exploring its Historical Aspects
Academia Letters, 2021Mohd Ashraf Dar, Shahid Qadoos Lone
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The Temple in Jerusalem: Using the Sun to date its Origins
Liber Annuus, 2011The evaluation of the Herodian Temple complex on the basis of building analysis allowed the position and orientation of the Solomonian Temple on the Holy Rock on the Temple Mount to be reconstructed. The examination of the orientation of the temple axis on the basis of astronomy led to the discovery that the Temple of Solomon was laid out on the axis ...
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