around 575BCE. The gate is located at the end of one of the world’s first streets‚ Processional Way. In addition‚ through the Processional Way‚ the gate also guarded the northern entrance to the city of Babylon. The gate is made of mud brick‚ surfaced with glazed clay bricks of a very deep blue color. However‚ the gate is decorated and inlaid yellow and colorfully glazed brickwork depicting lions and dragons‚ palm trees‚ and geometric designs. In addition‚ the gate is known to lead into the city of
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Pigs‚ the first two pigs set out and end up making their houses out of unstable materials that‚ in The Three Little Pigs‚ the fox‚ and in The Story of The Three Little Pigs‚ the wolf‚ destroyed. However‚ the third little pig builds his house out of bricks and is able to resist and eventually vanquish the wolf and fox. At the surface these stories appear to be trying to teach young children the value of hard work. But a more complex subliminal message exists as well. When The Three Little Pigs‚ and
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Serpentine Sackler Gallery Serpentine Sackler Gallery‚ Zaha Hadid‚ September 26‚ 2013. The Serpentine Sackler Gallery is a structure that was also designed by Zaha Hadid. Part of the building used to be a gunpowder shop during the 1800’s‚ until Zaha Hadid restored it and added extensions to the building. The building is located in London‚ United Kingdom and its used to exhibit many artworks and artifacts. The building has an area of over 1‚500 m2‚ with the whole site being 3‚400 m2. During the Process
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Conservation‚ Department of Conservation‚ Faculty of Archaeology‚ Cairo University‚ P.O. 12613 Giza‚ Egypt‚ marai79@hotmail.com ABSTRACT The early Christian cemetery in Egypt is located at Kharga Oasis in the western desert. The cemetery consists of 263 mud-brick chapels dating back to the 4th century AD. In the present study‚ micro-Raman analysis was used to study micro samples from the paint layers of the chapels murals. Raman spectra were collected in the near infra red excitation line (785nm) of a diode
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The gift of the River Nile Done by: Priscilla Gan‚ 1PE (14) Table of contents: Introduction -page 1 Its role in ancient Egypt -Economically -page 2 -Socially -page 3 -Culturally -page 5 -Politically -page 7 Bibliolography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile http://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/river-nile-facts.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Ancient Egyptians materials and technology
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The walls of Jericho For Christians‚ the Bible is the infallible word of God. For others‚ the Bible is a document written by men with many basic truths. For some‚ it is just a book of fairy tales to explain away unsolved mysteries. This paper will briefly describe the Bibles account of the battle of Jericho. It will then discuss four major pieces of archeological evidence found at the site of Jericho that accurately corroborates the Bible’s account of the Israelite siege that destroyed the city
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expensive tools like plows and animals to pull them. The reason so much is known about a people in a time shrouded in obscurity is because of the clay from the rivers. The Sumerians used clay to build their cities and houses. They used it to make bricks which they baked and built the city ziggurats with. Clay was used for tools and for pottery. Most importantly however‚ clay was used for writing. This was what set the Sumerians
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offering of gifts. A serdab was also inside the mastabas where the statue of ka (believed to be the soul of a person) was placed. An underground burial chamber completed the construction of the mastaba. These mastabas were originally built with mud brick‚ but as the culture progressed they were built with limestone. Eventually‚ the mastaba evolved into a much larger structure. This structure was a stacking of mastaba forms with a large mastaba at the base and decreasing in size as it extended vertically
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keep cool the gardens. The garden rose in close planted levels to create man-made mountain greenery. The gardens were supported by a detailed structure of stone pillars‚ brick walls‚ and palm tree trunk beams. These trunks were watertight. “Palm beams were placed over with reed and bitumen mats‚ as well as two layers of baked mud brick.” All of this was coated in a layer of lead. There were fourteen underground crypts and vaulted rooms. The structure was 400 feet by 400 feet. The gardens were as tall
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The Agricultural Revolution Ashley soderstrom Have you ever stopped to think about what life was thousands of years ago? The Agricultural Revolution was a stage in our history that brought us from nomads to farmers. Water‚ food‚ shelter‚ fire‚ tools‚ and society were the six most important elements that made up to the agricultural revolution. I will explain to you about all six of these things. Water was arguably the most important element of these six. It was used for many things such
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