Throughout most recorded history, human societies have used various types of cemeteries for burial purposes; this theme points to humanity’s need to construct a meaning behind death and reflect life into the places where the dead are interred. Whether the bodies of the deceased are placed in the ground, within elaborate tombs, or simply in the presence of ancient or contemporary monuments, thei...

Over the years, the Egyptian temples at Luxor city have been intensely investigated, but most of these studies just focused on the classical sides of the archaeological and historical descriptions. Many of the environmental problems are the inevitable results of the unplanned urban crawling around the monuments temples. This paper aims at assessing the environmental changes around some temples ...

The historical monuments of the ‘City Temples’ (Kathmandu) represent an intrinsic component Nepal’s cultural heritage. 2015 devastating Gorkha earthquake, besides human casualties, has led to a widespread demolition or partial damage at UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including ones in Durbar squares. This study, through integrated material characterization masonry binders, used four case from Han...

Conservation involves the conservation and preservation of museum objects and historical monuments utilizing compositional and structural information obtained from modern analytical techniques. The conservation of oil paintings requires an understanding of the individual structure of each work of art. This often involves the need for 1) correct identification of the pigments used by the artist,...

1. The Concept of Landscape: Past and Present 1.1 Perceptions of the Landscape and their Reflection in the Arts 1.2 Contemporary Views of the Landscape in Philosophy and the Natural Sciences 1.3 The Landscape Phenomenon in Contemporary Archaeology and Anthropology 2. Sites and Monuments in the Context of Landscape 2.1 The Birth of Interest: Founding Fathers 2.2 New Impulses: Crawford and his Di...

The use of robotic systems, especially multi-rotor aerial vehicles, in the documentation historical buildings and cultural heritage monuments has become common recent years. However, teleoperated systems have significant limitations encouraging ongoing development autonomous unmanned vehicles (UAVs). platforms provide a more accurate safe measurement distant difficult to access areas than their...

The article is devoted to the analysis of complex monumental sculptures pre-revolutionary St Petersburg in terms their influence on construction mass ideas about history Russia. list monuments created and installed since beginning 18th century until 1917 has been compiled basis reference books researches. describes circumstances installation some significant monuments, interpretation objects hi...

the deeper we go into the history of architecture, the less physical evidences are found; ceilings are collapsed, walls are fallen and the foundations are faded out over the time. however, there is no trace of some of these buildings, but they are not completely destroyed and they have been surviving in written documentations. the period of ghaznavid empire (997-11860) encompasses one of the mo...

The present study intends to shed light on 25 lifelikeness layers in Imam Jome’eh House (Khaneh Emam Jome’eh) in Isfahan as one of the prominent historical monuments dating back to Qajar dynasty. The present study intends to shed light on 25 lifelikeness layers in Imam Jome’eh House (Khaneh Emam Jome’eh) in Isfahan as one of the prominent historical monuments dating back to Qajar dynasty. The l...