During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, architectural spaces of Sufi shrines in South Asia affected ideas, feelings, behavior shrine-based communities. Acting as/Being a medium between humans’ thinking, memory, feeling, their surroundings, architecture has capacity to invoke various emotions such as happiness sadness them. The intensity with which can influence human emotion at times be ...

Analysis of ancient residential groups has been hampered by not fully understanding their physical and social composition. Debate exists over whether these groups were occupied by single extended families or by several social units. The heterogeneity that exists within a series of more intensively excavated Late Classic residential groups at Caracol, Belize can be categorized to provide insight...

of motifs from pagan healing cults by the Christians, and it is good to have a further archaeological demonstration of the same point. This rivalry may go some way to explain the total destruction at Pergamum of all artistic representations of Asclepius of Pergamum, for which we have to rely on statues and coins from Thrace and the Black Sea region and on the late testimony of an Arabic scholar...