Recently completed excavations at the site of El Palenque in Mexico's Valley of Oaxaca have recovered the well-preserved remains of a palace complex dated by associated radiocarbon samples and ceramics to the Late Formative period or Late Monte Albán I phase (300-100 BC), the period of archaic state emergence in the region. The El Palenque palace exhibits certain architectural and organizationa...

It is probable that the sanitarians of the future will declare that we, the sanitary pioneers of the nineteenth century, were little more than unclean barbarians, unable to master the first principles of scavenging, when they read that, despite all our affectation of learned dogmatism, and our pretence that our rude art is an exact science, a preventable fever took from our midst the best-belov...

nazok kari, one of the woodwork art, is of arts that functional and artistic instruments has made from well paint woods by eleganceand precision.the evidences and documents indicated that orosisazi (sash making art) and, consequently, the nazok kariwas expanded in sanandaj city from safavidperiod. due to reasons such as lack of professional craftsmen and high cost, thesash making art (orsisazi)...

The rapidly growing world energy use has already raised concerns over energy resources and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Since the global contribution from residential buildings towards energy consumption, has steadily increased between 20% and 40% and as large openings have considerable energy and heat loss in dwellings, this paper establishes a coefficient of heat loss and air infiltration ...