In the beginning of 2nd millennium BC, tradition burial mounds defined as kurgan tombs emerged on frontiers Transcaucasia and Northwest Iran, known plateaus Eastern Anatolia Region. Contrary to emergence these tombs, most settlements in region vanished. Political motivations may be reason for such a change, or claimed, people have left plains started animal husbandry due climate instabilities. ...

Evidence of human birth defects dating back over three thousand years is reported in archeological literature. Excavated ruins of ancient Babylon revealed detailed reports of infant defects.1 Achondroplastic dwarfs (failure to develop healthy cartilage at the ends of the long bones, resulting in a form of congenital dwarfism) have been unearthed in ancient Egyptian tombs. Pictures drawn on anci...

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Isis: Page 6 Two recent archaeological developments have brought Cleopatra into the news. They each concern tombs—her sister Arsinoe’s tomb and her own. A skull of a skeleton found early last century in ‘The Octagon’ a tomb in Ephesus in Turkey was recently reconstructed using measurements of the skeleton taken in the 1920s. The skull itself was lost in the 1940s. The reconstructed skull turned...

In this paper we would like to present our application for editing and visualizing huge point clouds. We also show how we used our application to build a model of the Domitilla Catacomb in Rome, which is the largest catacomb in Rome. It is an Early-Christian necropolis spanning 15 km of subterranean galleries. The catacomb contains tombs and community burials, where some of the tombs are painte...

The Valley of the Kings (arab. Wadi al Muluk; KV) situated on the West Bank near Luxor (Egypt) was the site for royal and elite burials during the New Kingdom (ca. 1500-1100 BC), with many tombs being reused in subsequent periods. In 2009, the scientific project "The University of Basel Kings' Valley Project" was launched. The main purpose of this transdisciplinary project is the clearance and ...

The Kofun period of the history Japan—between 3rd and 7th century AD—bears its name from construction huge, earth mound tombs called Kofun. Among them, largest have a keyhole shape are attributed to first, semi-legendary emperors. study orientation ancient is usually powerful tool better understand cognitive aspects religion power in societies. This has never been carried out Japan due very lar...