Abstract Although ancient Olympia is usually viewed as a Classical Greek site, most buildings that are visible nowadays were not there yet when Pindar celebrated famous victors or Peisistratos and Alcibiades won their races. More generally, even though new research has substantially improved our knowledge, the early history of site often still neglected in introductory presentations site. In th...

This article considers the relationship between architecture, bodies, and custodies in making of Indian urban monuments. Monuments are created through a combination design designation. In this I explore religious architecture that is dynamic iterative at which monumental designation was attempted quickly abandoned. align three issues: what monument looks like, does, how both function connect to...

Abstract This paper presents the research conducted on origin of white marble architecture basilica Ascalon (Israel). The is located in civic centre Roman city and it one relatively few known monumental buildings Palestine. various construction phases are dated from first century BC to third AD. As Israel has no sources marble, this explores that was used for several architectural elements such...

1Endocrine Research Centre, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Islamic Republic of Iran. 2Department of Disease Control and National Committee for the Control and Management of Diabetes, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. Received: 23/04/02; accepted: 06/01/03 SUMMARY Diabetes mellitus has become a monumental problem and a major heal...