In a climate of rising religious fundamentalism, it is relevant and pertinent to examine the processes by which a " religious " site is created. My general premise is that historical narratives are negotiations, rather than simple renditions of fact, and thus are always reflective of their authors' contemporary politics. Within this framework, this essay explores the processes through which the...

From its Gate of the Sun to its Gate of the Moon, temples and palaces lined its spacious streets. Marbled columns and glittering statues dazzled visitors. Alexandria witnessed not only the romance of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra but also the genius of the greatest mathematicians and boasted the world‟s first and greatest public library, a library whose aim was to contain a copy of every book eve...

Today visitors often approach the massive pyramids, temples, and obelisks of the ancient Egyptians with wonder and disbelief. The huge blocks of stone used to create these architectural masterpieces were quarried and moved without the aid of modern technologies, and it is diffi cult for us to imagine how such feats of engineering could be accomplished without the aid of cranes, bulldozers, truc...

Cutting grain is a remarkable Ramesside ritual in the Theban temples during New Kingdom. Five scenes are found depicting king as harvester cutting before deities of fertility Kingdom Thebes. The was rarely represented and it performed only reigns Kings Ramesses II III. After reign King III, this no more attested temples. However, regained its importance once Ptolemaic Period. Grain crops were s...

Hieroglyphs dominated the landscape of the Egyptian civilisation. These elaborate symbols were ideal for inscriptions on the walls of majestic temples and monuments, and indeed the Greek word hieroglyphica means 'sacred carvings', but they were too fussy for day-to-day scribbling, so other scripts were evolved in Egypt in parallel. These were the 'hieratic' and 'demotic' scripts, which can crud...

Veneration of the planet Venus under the guise of the goddess Inanna is ubiquitous in the earliest temples yet excavated in Mesopotamia. At Uruk, the oldest urban site in the entire Near East, offerings to Inanna/Venus far outnumber those of any other deity. In strata conventionally dated to ca. 3000 BCE (Uruk IV-III), Inanna is already associated with various symbols that would become conspicu...

This paper is a brief survey of the role of temples and holy places in nurturing the surrounding flora and its habitat. Eightysix kinds of plants in temple yards and gardens of orissa have been enlisted where they are cultivated and preserved for different temple rituals. These plants are seen rarely in wild but are saved from extinction by their association with temple rituals and ceremonies.

The Problem: There has been an explosion of content on the Web. In the very near future, images, video and virtual reality will be available on demand much as text is now. Somehow an interested user must be able to find the images or video of interest. For example a user may wish to scan a travel documentary for images of distinct locations and objects, like “Buddhist temples”, “Gothic cathedra...

as parasitic in origin. They say that thinning of the hair, whether general or beginning on the crown or at the temples and forehead (alopecia pityrodes), can be produced by a microorganism. Seborrhoea oleosa is generally admitted to be at times physiological, but who is to say when the physiological limit ends. The only connection that seborrhoea oleosa has with disease of the skin is that it ...