Sheramy D. Bundrick article titled: Athenian Eye Cups in Context is extremely insightful when it comes to terms of Athenian eye cups in the late sixth and early fifth century B.C.E.‚ in addition to how it plays a role in exports and market selling. There are numerous types of Athenian pottery‚ eye cups are a unique and a perplexing topic that still has uncertainties when determining the functions and designs. Some of the main points brought up by Bundrick are: questioning if eye cups are purposed
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pushing it out through its gills‚ to stop it drying out‚ the lungfish issues a special mucus form its skin covering itself in a thick layer that hardens to form a waterproof cocoon. Only a single hole is left for breathing. Bided into this mud sarcophagus‚ the lungfish slows its metabolism to one sixtieth of its original rate relying on its muscles and body fat as a source of food and water. It becomes just another piece of harden mud. And lungfish have even been known to end up as an accidental
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Religion between the two civilizations varied because of different ideas of worshiping. One similarity that the two share is the belief of multiple deities‚ otherwise known as polytheism. The Ancient Mesopotamians prayed to gods such as Enlil (Supreme deity and god of air)‚ Enki (God of water and underworld)‚ and Shamash (god of law and sun). One of the most prominent gods throughout all four Mesopotamian empires was An/Anu‚ one of the three supreme deities and the god of heaven. The Egyptians also
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On the 26th of April in 1986 one of the worst nuclear disasters in history occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine. The number 4 reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear power plant ended up exploding after several errors that occurred during a scheduled safety systems test. The explosions released large amounts of radioactive materials into the sky and it was spread over great distances by wind streams. The repercussions of the disaster are only now being better understood today.
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transferred into art and drove the movement towards creating the ultimate civilization. A great period in the arts began during the classical period as made evident in the expanding style that was used. A piece of sculpture known as “Hermes with Infant Dionysus by Praxiteles(350BC) touches on the sentiment of Greek interest in mythology and can be used as a piece to measure stylistic changes against. This sculpture addresses that Greek worship of gods as prevalent in the period and represents one of many
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Greece: Bronze Age Society – Minoan Society (b) Explain what relevant evidence reveals about Minoan religious beliefs and practices. Most of our sources about Minoan society come from Linear A and B together with depictions in frescoes and on coins and the discovery of evidence found in shrines‚ caves‚ palaces and villas. It is from this evidence that we learn about Minoan religious beliefs and practices‚ including places of religious worship and sacrifices‚ the gods and goddesses that the
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of the unknown soldier was in France‚ near the battle at Vimy Ridge‚ marked by a tombstone that read “Known unto God”. The remains of an unidentified soldier were returned to Canada to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier‚ a specially designed sarcophagus directly in front of the National War Memorial in Ottawa‚ the National Capital. 2. The remains of soldiers that fought in WWI and who were not identified were buried near Vimy Ridge which was the site of Canada’s biggest victory in 1917 and
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offers a clean energy alternative that frees us from the shackles of fossil fuel dependence. On the other‚ it summons images of disaster: quake-ruptured Japanese power plants belching radioactive steam‚ the dead zone surrounding Chernobyl’s concrete sarcophagus. But what happens inside a nuclear power plant to bring such marvel and misery into being? Imagine following a volt of electricity back through the wall socket‚ all the way through miles of power lines to the nuclear reactor that generated it.
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Early Christian art spans from the first to fifth centuries followed by the vast era of Byzantine art from the fifth century to the 16th century in Eastern Europe. Much of the art during this period had a religious context or enacted a religious purpose. The paintings and mosaics were meant to remind worshippers of their God‚ and the architecture was meant to serve both functional and aesthetic purposes. When Constantine I issued the Edict of Milan in 313 and moved the center of the Roman’s empire
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protection‚ help on preserving Maat and discretion. That is why when a person that fulfills the requirements of rituals‚ dies‚ his/her body is prepared for eternity with a great respect. Tamutnefret’s coffin is a 1.92 meters long multi-coffin sarcophagus with different variety of details handled on. The multi-coffins were prepared for people in upper class and could be up to 8 coffins as in Tutankhamun’s. The number of coffins increase with the importance of the dead person to the society. Tamutnefret
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