ghorban tower as an architectural monument is one of the outstanding resting- place of islamic era in hamadan city which has not been studied properly. previous studies on the tower concerning its architectural features or its historical background showed that the tower may be a place where a dignified religious man named khajeh hafez abol'ala hamadani berried inside in saljuk era and afte...

The paper analyzes inventories of the late 15th–17th centuries from four major Russian monasteries: St Cyril’s Belozersk, Solovetsky monastery, Joseph-Volokolamsk and Holy Trinity – Sergius monastery. These list monasteries’ property for its safekeeping. monastic libraries contain valuable information about system book keeping development bibliography in Old Rus’. They also provide some clues a...

This paper reports the results of integrated geophysical surveys performed inside Monastery St Chiara in Nardó southern Italy. Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) investigations were carried out to find tomb Sister D’Amato, whose location has been lost over centuries. Isabella D'Amato was a charismatic holy figure. She died 1693. buried monastery but her b...

The Archive of St. Petersburg Institute Science the Russian Academy Sciences in fund Antoniev-Siya Monastery has preserved a collection peasant acts 16th century. Its value lies fact that some cases participants transaction themselves acted as scribes. This makes it possible to assess degree literacy and writing skills those persons for whom was not familiar, even more so, main occupation. We c...