Sheikh Safi mausoleum includes a number of buildings of different periods, which Shah Tahmasb first turned them into a single complex. Later, Shah Abbas amended this complex and added important buildings to it. In general, the great importance of this historical monument is reflected in its relationship with the Safavid dynasty.  According to the travelogues and tourists and historians’ writin...

The shrines are monument of the deceased person which are constructed for respecting and honoring the memory of the deceased person and rely on spiritual concepts such as eternality, death etc. In this paper, attempt has been made to analyze architectural structure of Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa in Balkh, Afghanistan which was part of Iran in the Timurids period and Khorasan (one province in Iran...

We report on recent results with word-spotting (WS) in Hebrew historical texts, manuscript and printed. The advantage of such a retrieval system is that it works on images without any need for manual or computer transcription of the texts. The method allows for extremely rapid querying, while still maintaining high accuracy; thus, it should be considered as an important tool in historical textu...

a historical novel is a form of story-like narrative which is a combination of story and history. accordingly, we cannot easily comment whether, within this framework, it is the history that isbeing focused on by the author—as all the story’s elements are employed in the service of the historian—or history simplyplays an incidental role at the back stage of the story. the best exampleof the mix...

In this paper we present the research results of learning history using KASTALIA compared by the traditional teaching method using the school textbook in electronic format. KASTALIA is an educational hypermedia environment for learning archaic history and art. The special characteristics of the environment are the organization of the complex historical information, the context in which the hist...