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THE TOMB OF IPI: 3D DOCUMENTATION IN A MIDDLE KINGDOM THEBAN NECROPOLIS (EGYPT, 2000 BCE) [PDF]
Due to the multiplicity of tombs in the area and the work of early archaeologists in Deir el-Bahari, the necropolis resembles a Swiss cheese. In addition, most of these monuments and their remains (coffin fragments, human remains, subsidiary structures ...
E. Echeverría +3 more
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Abstract The aim of the study was to investigate the offence characteristics and motivations for revenge filicides. Revenge filicide is an act where one parent kills their own offspring for retribution to hurt and upset the other parent. The cases of 20 revenge filicide murderers (14 male and six female) were analysed to determine the motivations and ...
Melanie Moen, Christiaan Bezuidenhout
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Riley in Cairo: British Art and Egypt in the 1980s
In the early 1980s, Bridget Riley produced a series of paintings distinguished by their use of the same group of colours, said to have been inspired by the vividly preserved painted tombs that she encountered during a visit to Egypt in the winter of 1979–80.
Richard Johns
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The building projects and the Histories of Gregory of Tours
This article offers a fresh perspective on the life and works of the sixth‐century bishop Gregory of Tours by analysing Gregory’s magnum opus, the Histories, alongside a frequently overlooked aspect of his episcopal career: his restoration of the cathedral church of Tours and St Martin’s basilica following their devastation by fire in the time of his ...
John Merrington
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THE POZO MORO RELIEFS (CHINCHILLA, SPAIN): A MEDITERRANEAN HERO BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
Summary At Pozo Moro, archaeologists discovered the oldest series of architectural and sculptural remains currently known in Iberian culture. It is traditionally assumed that they were part of a single ten‐meters‐high tower that was built – and immediately collapsed – in the late sixth century BC, some fifty years before an Iberian necropolis ...
Jorge García Cardiel +1 more
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What an artist saw. Tracing the local iconographic tradition for the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari [PDF]
An unusual iconographic motif—a fringed piece of linen—depicted in the Chapel of Hatshepsut, part of the queen’s temple at Deir el-Bahari, is examined in this paper as an illustration of the interest, well attested in Hatshepsut’s reign, in past artistic
Anastasiia Stupko-Lubczynska
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Scenes of the God Osiris in the New kingdom`s private tombs at Theban Necropolis (Analytical and comparative study) [PDF]
Osiris is considered one of the most famous and important ancient Egyptian deities, around whom the basic beliefs revolved around the other world. He is one of the oldest gods of the dead.
Mansour Elnobi +3 more
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The Valley of the Kings (KV) is a UNESCO world heritage site with more than thirty tombs that have been opened. Since the first tombs were constructed, at least 24 historical flash flood events have been identified, each of which has contributed to the ...
Ahmed Sallam +3 more
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Clay funerary figurines from tombs MMA 1151 and MMA 1152 in Sheikh Abd el-Gurna [PDF]
A significant number of clay ushebtis comes from two Middle Kingdom tombs MMA 1151 and 1152 investigated by a Polish team in Western Thebes. The funerary figurines belong to a later phase of tomb reuse in the first millennium BC.
Marta Kaczanowicz
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When the Tomb Owner offers to Parents and Relatives in Theban Private Tombs. [PDF]
The New Kingdom's private tombs in Thebes contain some scenes that represent the tomb owner presenting offerings to parents, brothers, grandparents, viziers and others. This research study this topic through some scenes to resolve its ambiguity, as it is known that the tomb owner, as deceased on his tomb, is supposed to be the receiver of offerings ...
Abdel-Azem Soliman, Haitham Abdel-Hafeth
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