near the Indus River. The Indus river valley civilization is an ancient civilization that began by the Indus river valley. Civilization is an advanced state of human society in which science‚ culture‚ industry and government have been reached. Excavations first started in 1921-1922 directed to a civilization that began about 4‚000-5‚000 years ago and research has given us a better picture of the Indus River Valley Civilization. Cultural exchange between the Indus River Civilization and Mesopotamia
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EGYPT AND THE PYRAMIDS Has it ever occurred to anyone who was the mastermind behind the great pyramids? Who could have built such a magnificent structure back then with such poor construction‚ transportation and organization. Well‚ I strongly advocate the concept of Egyptians building the Great Pyramids because there is plenty of evidence conveying
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Kouros represents youth‚ moral and physical beauty of the aristocratic culture of Archaic Greece. On the other hand‚ Aphrodite represents the Greek goddess of love and beauty. Kouros is a life-sized sculpture and hands clenched at the sides and one foot slightly forward. In contrast‚ Aphrodite is given larger than real-life scale. The Terracotta Statue of the Diadoumenos is a copy of a Greek bronze statue of 430 B.C. by Polykleitos. The pose of the famous statue of the Diadoumenos by Polykleitos
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Evaluation of Land-use Patterns in the Town of Jericho [online] http://scholar.najah.edu/publication/thesis/analysis-andevaluation-land-use-patterns-town-jericho (accessed 07/01/2010). Anfinset‚ N‚ 2006. Aspects of excavation‚ cooperation and management; The joint Palestinian-Norwegian excavation at Tell el-Mafjar‚ Jericho‚ in L Nigro & H Taha (eds.)‚ Tell es-Sultan / Jericho in the context of the Jordan Valley. Site Management‚ Conservation and Sustainable Development‚ ROSAPAT‚ 2‚ 61-82. Rome: Rome “La
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A. Soldiers Bodies Sarah Wagner‚ “The Making and Unmaking of an Unknown Soldier‚” Social Studies of Science‚ 43(5): 631-656‚ 2013. The article describes the military identification technology in the 1990s and the decision to remove the remains from the Vietnam crypt of the Tomb of Unknowns and the subsequent work on the previously unidentified remains in previous wars. It argues that naming the dead soldiers and returning their remains personalize the ideals of sacrifice and honor embodied in the
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displays the old editions of the Holy Koran. [pic] I- Gightis Gightis is just few distances away from Djorf and Médenine. The architecture style found in the excavation site of Gightis marks the influences of Greek‚ Egyptian and Punic. The remains that are found in the excavation site belong to the 2nd century. The excavation site features Roman baths‚ a
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Rome brought many architectural innovations to the world‚ and their art influenced art for many centuries. Roman art includes architecture‚ painting‚ sculpture and mosaic work. In this short Learning Journal I will discuss how did the purpose of the sculpture and painting of Rome differ. Roman sculpture was heavily influenced by Greek sculpture. In fact‚ many of the Roman sculptures were just copies of Greek sculptures. But the Roman sculpture was created to serve a purpose: namely‚ to impress
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One difference between the ancient and modern Olympic Games is that the ancient games were played within the context of a religious festival. One of the more intriguing true stories about ancient Greece and the Olympics of ancient Greece would have to be that during the Olympic Games‚ all fighting stopped. No matter how long or how fierce a battle had raged‚ every soldier in the battlefield put down his weapons and travelled to Olympia‚ there they would compete in athletic games designed to honour
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The Harappan Civilization some several thousand years ago there once thrived a civilization in the Indus Valley. Located in what ’s now Pakistan and western India‚ it was the earliest known urban culture of the Indian subcontinent. (1) The Indus Valley Civilization‚ as it is called‚ covered an area the size of western Europe. It was the largest of the four ancient civilizations of Egypt‚ Mesopotamia‚ India and China. However‚ of all these civilizations the least is known about the Indus Valley people
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consequence of Henry VII’s victory‚ Richard III’s remains received burial without pomp and were lost for more than five centuries. In 2012‚ an archaeological excavation was conducted on a city council car park on the site once occupied by Greyfriars‚ Leicester. The University of Leicester confirmed on 4 February 2013 that a skeleton found in the excavation was of Richard III.
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