The influence of religious and cosmological beliefs on the solar architecture of the ancient world [PDF]
, 2014 In the earliest civilizations of the Ancient World, sun worship developed in parallel with an understanding of the movement of the stars. That was the origin of an architecture that expressed a number of religious and cosmological beliefs.
Fumadó Alsina, Joan Lluís +2 more
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Chemistry of ancient materials of iron in India
Applied Surface Science Advances, 2023 India is acclaimed for its rich heritage of iron making at least since the protohistoric era. The ancient artisans were able to create iron artefacts possessing outstanding characteristics, which demonstrates the level of expertise they had attained in ...
Nityananda Agasti, Balaram Pani
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The sky from the high terrace. study on the orientation of the Ziqqurat in Ancient Mesopotamia [PDF]
, 2016 The ziqqurat is the symbol of the Mesopotamian sacred architecture in the western thought. This monument, standardized at the end of the III millennium BC by the kings of the Third Dynasty of Ur, has changed during the history of Mesopotamia its shape ...
NADALI, Davide, Polcaro, Andrea
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Approaching Skyscape Archaeology: A Note on Method and Fieldwork for the Case Study of Pompeii
Groma, 2021 The urban layout of Pompeii presents several orientations, possibly due to an uneven bare ground plateau. However, its main east-west axes have the same orientation of Herculaneum ones, suggesting that not only geomorphological constrains acted as ...
Ilaria Cristofaro, Michele Silani
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A BIM APPROACH FOR THE ANALYSIS OF AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL MONUMENT [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2019 In 2010 an Italian team started new on-field investigations in the area of the Sun Temple of Niuserra, 6 km south of the pyramids of Giza. The archaeological research was planned to re-examine the monument after its discovery in 1898. The work was
A. Bosco +3 more
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Atypical Fibroxanthoma/Pleomorphic Dermal Sarcoma With Osseous Metaplasia: A Series of Three Cases. [PDF]
J Cutan PatholABSTRACT Atypical fibroxanthoma (AFX) and pleomorphic dermal sarcoma (PDS) are rare mesenchymal tumors typically arising on sun‐damaged skin of the head and neck in elderly patients. PDS is a more aggressive tumor but with similar demographics, cellular morphology, immunohistochemical features, and genetic findings.
Novice T, Xu Y, Brenn T, Bresler SC.
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New discoveries on astronomical orientation of Inca site in Ollantaytambo, Peru
Geoinformatics FCE CTU, 2015 This paper deals with astronomical orientation of Incas objects in Ollantaytambo, which is located about 35 km southeast from Machu Picchu, about 40 km northwest from Cusco, and lies in the Urubamba valley.
Karolína Hanzalová +2 more
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The sea in Sumerian literature [PDF]
, 2020 Surveying the references to the sea in Sumerian literature, this paper discusses the general idea that the sea is underrepresented in Mesopotamian cultures of the third millennium BCE.
Lorenzo Verderame
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THE ROLE OF URBAN TOPOGRAPHY IN THE ORIENTATION OF GREEK TEMPLES: THE CASES OF AKRAGAS AND SELINUNTE [PDF]
, 2016 It is well known that the vast majority of the Greek temples of Sicily are oriented to the rising sun. However the factors which influenced the specific orientation of each temple or of each group of temples can be of various nature and no general key ...
Andrea Orlando +2 more
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Theoretical reconstruction of the Solar Altar in the Hatshepsut Temple at Deir el-Bahari [PDF]
Polish 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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