An important cultural heritage is located in the Chinese providence of Sichuan: about 1000 years ago, Buddhist stone inscriptions have been carved into rock – the Stone Sutras. Archiving the current state of the inscriptions, their transcription and translation into digital assets, their interpretation and provision to the public and scientific community are of a major interest to an interdisci...

The archaeological site at Burnum is the subject of scientific research conducted since 2003 in the area of the ancient agglomeration by the members of the Chair of Ancient Archaeology of the Department of Archaeology of the University of Zadar, accompanied by partners--Krka National Park, City Museum of Drnis and Laboratory of Archaeological and Topographic Survey of the Department of Archaeol...

Recognition of ancient Tamil hand written characters from inscriptions is difficult. Ancient Tamil characters are different from current century’s Tamil character. This paper concentrates on the century identification of ancient Tamil characters and converting them into current century’s form using MATLAB. In this paper, a method for recognizing Tamil characters from stone inscriptions, called ...

In the rongorongo script we encounter many anthropomorphic glyphs with an enlarged body and a hole in the belly. Based primarily on structural evidence present in parallel passages, it is argued that hollow-belly glyphs are in fact a compact form of two normal-belly single anthropomorphic glyphs. The scriptural evolution from two single-body glyphs into one double-body glyph was gradual and its...

Runic echoes permeate saga literature; the runes of divine origin, rúnar reginkunnar, of the Sparlösa and Noleby stones recur in Hávamál, while the evocative Swedish Skarpåker runestone (Jör› skal rifna ok upphiminn) or the Danish Ribe stick (Jör› bi› ek uar›a ok upphiminn) are strongly reminiscent of Germanic poetry (cf. Jansson 1987: 140f.). References to elves and trolls, and even invocation...

in the architecture of iranian traditional houses, the ornamentations available in the inscriptions of houses entrance portal express the identity of architects and personality of houses owners and are rooted in their religious and national beliefs and faiths. the main hypothesis of this research is changing the physique and application of religious contents in compliance with the thoughts and ...