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A comparative study of ruination, the process by which monuments, architectural sites, and urban centers decay into ruin over time. as a result of a complex social process largely contingent on changing imperial control.
A critical study of the role played by architecture and texts in promoting political and religious ideologies in the ancient world. It explains a palace as an element in royal propaganda seeking to influence social concepts about kingship, and a text about a temple as influencing social concepts about the relationship between God and human beings.
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Explores the development of tombs as a cultural phenomenon in ancient Egypt and examines what tombs reveal about ancient Egyptian culture and Egyptians' belief in the afterlife.
A comparative study of ruination, the process by which monuments, architectural sites, and urban centers decay into ruin over time. as a result of a complex social process largely contingent on changing imperial control.
Urban development in Uruk and Iran -- The temples in the plains -- The invention of writing -- The Sumerians and their contemporaries -- The early dynastic period and the death-pits at Ur -- Tepe Hissar III and the new dynasties of Babylonia.
A critical study of the role played by architecture and texts in promoting political and religious ideologies in the ancient world. It explains a palace as an element in royal propaganda seeking to influence social concepts about kingship, and a text about a temple as influencing social concepts about the relationship between God and human beings.
Outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology, as well as the legacy of Sumer to the ancient and modern world.
Primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of China, arranged chronologically. v.1: From earliest times to 1600; V.2: From 1600 through the twentieth century.
Teotihuacan, known for its monumental architecture and dense settlement, became an urban center around 100 BC and a regional state over the next few centuries, dominating much of the Basin of Mexico and beyond until its collapse around AD 650.