The civilization of ancient Iraq was distinguished by its religious beliefs from inception until late periods. This reflected in different aspects life, including belief the influence spiritual forces, which are divided into forces good and evil. These were known since times developed over time with development Iraqi beliefs, they acquire first millennium BC. It takes an advanced position thoug...

In Pharaonic Egypt, efforts were made to drain used water in settlements and cities since the earliest times. houses of elite as well palaces pharaohs, however, there not only separate bathrooms, but even toilets; both are attested c. 2700 BC for first time, while such facilities represented lower class. Therefore, majority Egyptians cleaned themselves Nile, canals ponds. There no public baths ...

The economic viability of the companies is a more significant gap in rural tourism. quality standards can be new instrument to help consolidate businesses, because its positive direct and indirect effects: improve professionalism, increase size companies, protect architecture traditional culture, facilitate segments tourists smaller but higher value. However, interest businesspeople for marks w...

Historic structures are unparalleled jewels of the past embedded in built environment. They integrate present society with and future through its historic fabric existence over decades. The negligence due to economic dilemma our part world is one major reasons disappearance many such structures. Building condition assessment tool very useful decision making for that can be saved generations wit...

Cognitive psychology has demonstrated that the way knowledge is structured in memory determines the ability to retain, recall, and use it to solve problems. The method of loci (MOL) is a mnemonic device that relies on spatial relationships between “loci” (e.g., locations on a familiar route or rooms in a familiar building) to arrange and recollect memorial content. In the present study, we hypo...

A novel interactive technique for extraction of text characters from the images of stone inscriptions is introduced in this paper. It is designed particularly for on-site processing of inscription images acquired at various historic palaces, monuments, and temples. Its underlying principle is made of several robust character-analytic elements like HoG features, vowel diacritics, and location-bo...

This project is ongoing research focused on finding a method of reconstruction, using computational devices to build, represent and evaluate Palladio’s un-built villas in three-dimensions. The first of The Four Books of Architecture contains text and images explaining Palladio’s design and construction systems in the form of rules. These rules were written for masons and craftsmen of the 16th c...