All humans, past and future, are forced to grapple with the abstract phenomenon of passing ending time, as well ideas about such eternity finality. Death especially is a confrontation passing, ending, irreversibility, unpredictability over which humans have little no power. In response threat time death, employ coping mechanisms, common perhaps universal example anthropomorphization. Fashioning...

Contemporary changes in historical culture associated with various states of modernity actualize the problem foundations and prerequisites historicism as a principle thinking characteristic modern societies. The ancient background consists primarily advanced concepts time eternity , which contain potential variability understanding historicity philosophy culture. At same time, world remained on...

This article explores how our thinking about time shapes epistemological and ontological understandings of the world. It considers idea modernity as constituted by ancient/modern binary through an examination Montesquieu’s Benjamin Constant’s development this in relation to their commerce, law nations conquest, political rule freedom context European colonial empire. Modernity demarcates a brea...

Aimed at ancient architectures which own the characteristics of huge data quantity, fine-grained and high-precise, a 3D fine management and visualization method for ancient architectures based on the integration of 2D and 3D GIS is proposed. Firstly, after analysing various data types and characters of digital ancient architectures, main problems and key technologies existing in the 2D and 3D d...