The LA3M Laboratory of Aix Marseille University (France), in cooperation with the Institute Archaeology and Ethnography Armenian Academy, represented on ground by Regional Museum Shirak, has carried out, from 2009 to 2016, an archaeological survey early Christian medieval site Yereruyk. project was aimed at a multidisciplinary approach complex, combining armenology, history art architecture, bu...

Historic Cairo has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979. It more than 600 historic structures, which require extensive studies to sustain their cultural, religious, and economic values. The main aim of this paper is undertake dynamic investigation tests for the dome Fatima Khatun, mausoleum in dating back 13th century consisting mainly bricks stones. challenge was that structure difficu...

A mausoleum is a monument, funeral building that included chamber where the remains of dead were placed. The Turkic peoples have built mausoleums over graves their ancestors for centuries. Mausoleums considered afterlife home dead. erected structures make it possible to determine social status people buried in or which class they belonged. After all, known huge famous people, consisting several...

mosque is among the most important edifices in islamic architecture, which has a significant role in the cultural, social, and religious life of the muslims. since mosque is god’s house and a place for whispering supplications to him, the muslim rulers have attempted to construct or reconstruct mosques. they have benefited from the help of the artists and calligraphers for the physical and spir...

since the ancient times, burial practices have displayed certain characteristics among different iranian ethnic groups and regions were influenced by the local religious orientations, traditions and environments, and are regarded as part of the spiritual culture of any given population. indeed, religious beliefs play the main role in this diversity. because of the empire’s long endurance and va...

This article analyses the architectural complexes of industrial forecourts that emerged in USSR between late 1920s and early 1940s their cultural symbolic role. The author evaluates phenomenon pre-factory entrance area a global context, showing organisation contact zone factory city had been used Russian tradition eighteenth – nineteenth centuries and, more recently, US Western Europe twentieth...