First, a note on the discovery of a shroud in a hewn cave tomb of the Hinnom Valley by the Old City of Jerusalem. 1 The remnants show a plain (tabby) weave in wool. Carbon-14 dating by Douglas Donahue of Arizona University (who again stands by his erroneous date for the Holy Shroud) gives a date for the first half of the 1 st century AD. So far this fits approximately the evidence in situ. But ...

Archaeological wood in ancient tombs is found usually with extensive degradation, limiting what can be learned about the diet, environment, health, and cultural practices of the tomb builders and occupants. Within Tumulus Midas Mound at Gordion, Turkey, thought to be the tomb of the Phrygian King Midas of the 8th century B.C., we applied a stable nitrogen isotope test to infer the paleodiet of ...

Trolley Lines (end of route) 11 Historic Sites Betsy Ross House........................................30 Bishop White House.....................................54 Carpenter's Hall...........................................51 Christ Church Cemetery...............................24 City Tavern....................................................56 Congress Hall.......................................

the theory of urban ecology is based on explaining urban spatial structure, studying and describing the reciprocal relationship between human societies in the urban areas and the environment, as well as analyzing the circumstances of urban population segregation and production of everyday life spaces. to study and explain urban ecological structure of mashhad, the case study of the article, we ...

This article examines the history of a small Greek church on island Corfu and attempts to explain how it grew into an important pilgrimage shrine for Latin pilgrims travelling Jerusalem. It also reviews legends, miracle stories devotional practices that developed around site discusses these within context pilgrims’ experience during their voyage Holy Land. The argues in fourteenth fifteenth cen...

the holy shrine of imam rezaas is one of the most important places in iran in terms of religious and public beliefs. huge volumes of pilgrims travel to the mentioned place, so the appropriated environmental and furniture design to increase the visitors' satisfaction is inevitable. in this regards, the main objective of this study is to identify an appropriated design for public water taps ...

mashhad city is the third and one of the most important city tours in the world and that is why many people visit this place of pilgrimage each year. the reason that mashhad is put in third place and has many visitors and travelers is that imam rezas' (as) holly shrine is located in the aforementioned city. it is essential to take action in order to supply and increase the satisfaction of ...