discovered Monument 31 from the highland site of Chalcatzingo demonstrates for the first time that at least by the Middle Formative Period (900-500 B.C.), the Lazy-S motif, like its Classic Maya counterpart, was associated with both clouds and bloodletting. Although the Lazy-S motif figures prominently in the iconographic corpus at Chalcatzingo, until the analysis of Monument 31 no context exis...

This article analyzes the impact of Soviet memorials to Great Patriotic War in Poltava oblast (central Ukraine) on positioning new war post-Soviet urban landscape. Focusing two key factors (availability sites and their symbolic potency), shows that played an important role how Soviet–Afghan were positioned landscape independent Ukraine, this prepared ground for present-day discussions about mos...

This paper is focused on integration between laser scanning data, CAD modelling and photogrammetric data collected during the survey of one façade of the monument called “Quattro Canti” in the historic centre of Palermo. The investigation has been directed to the production of a 3D photorealistic model of the monument. The “Quattro Canti” monument is formed by four cylindrical façades facing th...

The Preah Vihear monument in Cambodia, located close to the border with Thailand, was one of the Khmer temples registered on the UNESCO World Heritage List as a Cultural Property in 2008. It consists of masonry buildings constructed of siliceous sandstone blocks. In this study, the construction sequence of its buildings was inferred from the chemical composition, magnetic susceptibility, and si...

Monument research and conservation requires in most cases an extensive documentation of the concerning object in a short time. With combined geodetic and photogrammetric methods the demanded map documents are of high quality and accuracy, especially in case of exact documentation true to scale. In view of the nature of the task and the financial frame, this requires the choice of adequate metho...

according to the non-physical aspects of conservation in the world today and intangible effects were considered serious. conservation process, but help to understand the purpose and effect of not reading, but perception is a matter of epistemological roots in philosophy and  in modern philosophy the process of understanding a monument-art conservation in connection with the audience is importan...

This paper is an attempt to identify Shahdra’s assets be served as a base for urban rejuvenation. The core objective study the historiography of Shahdra monument which categorized by its wonderful features architecture and artwork. site was initially dedicated Royal Garden named “Dilkushah Garden”. Afterwards, it converted into burial place currently, functioning recreational place. In twentiet...