Seed clumps of Capparis spinosa L. together with shoots, leaves and fruits of Cannabis sativa L. were unearthed in the Yanghai Tombs, Turpan District in Xinjiang, China. This is the first time that plant remains of Capparis spinosa have been discovered in China and the eastern part of Central Asia. Based on the joint occurrence of Capparis spinosa and Cannabis sativa, and the pharmacological va...

This research intends to engage the notion of the biography of the object in the study of inscribed bronzes in early Western Zhou tombs. Different from the use-life cultural historical approach that focused on the changes to the morphological or functional characteristics of an object, a biographical approach seeks to understand the way objects become invested with meaning through social intera...

Abstract This paper focuses on the diagnosis of damage processes decorative Roman renders a group tombs in Porta Nocera necropolis ancient city Pompeii, Italy. Unprotected from various climatic events, keep deteriorating since they were first excavated 1954. Extensive on-site and laboratory diagnostics using non-destructive low-destructive techniques have been able to demonstrate that soluble s...

Lecce is a city located in the southern part of Apulia region (south Italy). Its subsoil rich remains superimposed ancient settlements from Messapian period (7th–3rd century BC) to Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. Cathedral one most important buildings town. It was built 12th transformed 16th 17th centuries. Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) surveys were carried out cathedral its...

In the swamp lands of Louisiana the dead are buried in tombs above ground rather than interred in the waterlogged earth. Observation of this reversal of the usual arrangements prompted TP Werblin to conceive the procedure of epikeratoyhakia in 1979.' In this keratorefractive technique, instead of attempting direct invasive modification of the corneal contour, a preshaped refractive lamella is s...

Abstract The choir of Saint Bavo’s Cathedral in Ghent boasts one the most prestigious ensembles Baroque funerary sculpture Low Countries: four magnificent episcopal tombs that reflect post-Tridentine élan Southern Netherlands and underline reinforced position bishops during Counter-Reformation. Dominated by a unifying black white colour scheme, these monuments form an ‘episcopal dynastic mausol...

Mountains and high ground are often venerated as special places. It is their enigmatic quality as high places, their prominence and permanence in both the mental and physical landscapes that draws us to them. In the Neolithic/Bronze Age mountain tops in Ireland were frequently used for ritual purposes, often indicated by the presence of various monuments such as passage tombs, cairns as well as...