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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"tomb"”.
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Constructing and consuming "Heritage" : Humayun's Tomb in popular perception
… associations were constructed around Humayun's Tomb that established it as the most important political and spiritual site in the city during the sixteenth century. After an initial phase of importance, the tomb began to slip into physical decrepitude and neglect. Though the tomb underwent …
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The glint of gold: Press coverage of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb
Press coverage of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, through articles published in the London Times and New York Times from November 30, 1922 to January 31, 1923, will be analyzed. A contract between the excavators and the London Times provided the newspaper with exclusive reports and …
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Leonardo’s Tomb: Exhibitions of Early Flight Technology at the Deutsches Museum, Science Museum and Smithsonian, 1903 – 2003
This thesis is an account of the aeronautical collections of three museums, the Science Museum, the Deutsches Museum and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, as they were developed and displayed between 1903 and 2003. This thesis is arranged into four main chapters, each with a series of …
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Outrageous women: a comparison of five passages within the canonical passion and empty tomb narratives emphasizing the role of women
… texts within the canonical passion and empty tomb narratives. One of the issues that will be explored concerns the historicity and significance of the canonical empty tomb tradition, in which women are portrayed as the primary witnesses to the empty tomb and the resurrection. By tracing the …
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Objects for the Dead, Practices of the Living: Chamber tombs, burial assemblages, and social dynamics at Ialysos on Rhodes and in the islands of the south-east Aegean
… is known to us mostly through numerous chamber tomb sites dated between the 15th and 11th century BC (the Late Bronze Age III period). These sites, and, by extension, the people who used them, have long been considered as belonging to the so-called ‘Mycenaean culture’, which is said to have …
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It's a kind of magic: exploring the role of the living in effecting food and drink offerings in private mortuary cults of late Old Kingdom Egypt
… of these by the living to the dead at the tomb formed a key part of the mortuary cult. Egyptological scholarship commonly proposes that once the cult ceased, and the temporary, perishable offerings along with it, a permanent, ‘magical’ supply was provided via image, text, and object …
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Creating Virginia’s War Memorial Carillon in the Shadow of the Civil War
… debates about Virginia’s War Memorial Library, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and Carillon, this thesis reconstructs the sentiments and historical legacy that shaped the multitude of decisions leading to the creation of Virginia’s World War memorial. Virginia seriously considered two other …
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Henry VII : a study of visual display in life and death
… more richly dead, in the monument of his tomb, than he did alive'. The aim of this research is to demonstrate that Henry was not a colourless king and that he was highly aware of the power of visual display, with an astute understanding of its impact. This awareness culminated in the …
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Potential output and sources of economic growth: Korea 1962-1968
… San Domenico, elements of the Siena Pulpit, the tomb of Adrian V, the Annibaldi Tomb, the Perugia Fountain, the statue of Charles of Anjou, the De Braye Tomb (including a new reconstruction), the tomb of Honorius IV, the Presepe of Sta. Maria Maggiore, the ciboria of S. Paolo fuori le mura and …
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Arnolfo di Cambio: sculpture
… San Domenico, elements of the Siena Pulpit, the tomb of Adrian V, the Annibaldi Tomb, the Perugia Fountain, the statue of Charles of Anjou, the De Braye Tomb (including a new reconstruction), the tomb of Honorius IV, the Presepe of Sta. Maria Maggiore, the ciboria of S. Paolo fuori le mura and …
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"SED NEQUE SILENTIO PRETEREUNDUM": AN ANALYSIS OF THE MIRACLES OF SAINT WILLIAM OF NORWICH
… suggest about the pilgrims who visited his tomb. Using disability theory, this thesis analyzes eighty medical miracles performed by the boy saint. I begin by categorizing and analyzing the miracles according to the impairments that the pilgrims suffered. Because the cures took place within …
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Mourning at Mount Vernon: Memory, Commemoration, and Thanatourism in the Creation of Nineteenth-Century American Identity
… is also the site of George Washington’s Tomb, I contend that travel to this location falls within the definitions of thanatourism developed by Tourism Studies to explore the motives of tourists who choose to visit places related to death and disasters. For nineteenth-century American …
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Protection Epitaphs: Material Connection Between Death and Magic in Ancient Rome
… Epitaphs, a physical object created to mark the tomb, are seen in antiquity and modern cultures. Protection epitaphs, a subset of these epitaphs, are a subculture within ancient Rome that incorporate a request for protection. These epitaphs share a common thread of death culture: care and respect …
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Minoan Funerary Practices During the Bronze Age: With a Study on the Introduction of Cremation to Crete
… the Bronze Age are very diverse in nature. Tomb architecture in the Early Minoan period is characterized by regional variations. In the Middle Minoan and Late Minoan periods the regional variations, present in the Early Minoan period, are not as palpable due to the increased trade within the …
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Landmarks of the Persian Renaissance : monumental funerary architecture in Iran and Central Asia in the tenth and eleventh centuries
… the monuments take two different forms: the tomb tower and the domed square. There are formal and functional differences and a different geographical distribution, with the earliest tomb towers concentrated in the inaccessible Alborz Mountains in northern Iran. This remote region had a very …
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The Song Cycles of Louis Aubert
… his journey takes him across the desert to her tomb, where she has been all along.
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Multiple interment loculi tombs at Tell Dothan -- burial behaviour as cultural process in the Late Bronze/Early Iron I Levant
… among the Late Bronze/Iron I Age Canaanite tomb plans rests on the understanding of the ‘foreign’ and the ‘local’ elements of interments of that period. When Diane Bolger, in her discussion of ancient Cypriot mortuary practices, noted the shift in the scholarly literature from the emphasis …
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