The economic performance of India has often been equated with the slow growth rate of around 3.5 % never quite entering into the ‘take off’ stage of the Rostow's model. Some economists believed, as though the nation was destined for it. At the time of India's independence in the year 1947, the nation had a plethora of serious problems to face, viz. shortage of food-grains, poor infrastructure, ...

A typical characteristic of columns in Doric temples is entasis; a slight convexity in the body of a column. Often, and particularly in guide-books, it is suggested that entasis is intended to compensate for an illusion of concavity in columns with truly straight sides. We have investigated whether any such visual illusion exists, both in parallel sided and in tapering columns in a series of ex...

The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. For the famous Giza Pyramids, the Sphinx, and surrounding tombs and temples, just west of modern Cairo (3rd millennium BCE), the Giza Project at Harvard University is blending older traditional archives (dig photos, archaeological drawings, object metadata) with realistic...

A visually immersive display can make an educational game more effective, if concepts are embodied in an information-rich space and the interaction/perception design exploits the egocentric view that the display affords. For example, ancient Egyptian temples juxtapose language and symbol in an architecture meant to be understood from the inside. In this study, students, ages 11 through 14, play...