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Notre Dame’s Fire Reveals a Major Surprise Hidden in Its Architecture 20 March 2023 By Carly Cassella (Aziz Ary Neto/Getty Images) For all the damage that the 2019 Notre Dame fire wrought, it presented archaeologists in Paris with a unique opportunity to peer into through the landmark’s history. Parts of the famous cathedral […]
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Architecture of the Floating (Or Sinking) City: How Was Venice Built?
January 24th, 2023 
Awake Goy The romantic city of Venice is known by many names, including the floating city, the city of canals and even the Queen of the Adriatic. This city of water was built on dozens of tiny islands located in the Venetian Lagoon, a wetland bay of the Adriatic Sea, interconnected by bridges and canals. If you’re […]
Africa to fortify the architecture of peace and security on the continent
November 24th, 2022 Awake Goy In recent decades, the issue of ensuring the security of African states has become particularly acute. This is as a matter of fact, due to the numerous problems that have accumulated on the continent, including high levels of poverty, the dissatisfaction of the population of several countries with the policies of the authorities, territorial claims, […]
We Need To Build The Architecture Of Our Future
June 25th, 2022 Awake Goy In April 2022, the United Nations established the Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy, and Finance. This group is tracking the three major crises of food inflation, fuel inflation, and financial distress. Their second briefing, released on 8 June 2022, noted that, after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic: the world economy has been left in a […]
Saving Iraqi Mudhif Reed Architecture from Oblivion
June 18th, 2022 Awake Goy Take a look around someone’s house and you can learn a great deal about their way of life and their culture. Read more Section: News Ancient Places Asia History Ancient Traditions Read Later
Sticky Rice Mortar Used in Ancient Chinese Architecture
April 29th, 2022 Awake Goy Ancient Chinese culture has made great contributions to humanity. The so-called Four Great Inventions of China – the compass, gunpowder, paper, and printing – are still being used extensively today. Read more Section: Artifacts Ancient Technology News Read Later
Archaeoacoustics and Ancient Architecture: Megaliths, Music and the Mind
April 16th, 2022 Awake Goy Before introducing the Big Question, let’s ponder a minute. Isn’t it amazing that for hundreds of thousands of years, all of humankind lived the same way everywhere on Earth. Read more Section: Artifacts Ancient Technology News Ancient Places Asia Unexplained Phenomena Read Later
The Mysteries and Spectacular Architecture of Angkor Wat
March 25th, 2022 Awake Goy Angkor Wat is a fascinating temple complex in northwestern Cambodia, located in what was once the capital of the ancient Khmer Empire which presided over a vast kingdom in Southeast Asia. Read more Section: News Ancient Places Asia Read Later Source
The Wondrous Buddhist Rock-Cut Architecture of the Ajanta Caves
March 3rd, 2022 Awake Goy It was in 1819 when John Smith, a British army officer in pursuit of a tiger came across a cave near Ajanta village in India. More than thirty caves carved inside the rock of the mountainside and arranged in a horseshoe shape—the well-known Ajanta Caves—have now been discovered in that area. These Buddhist rock-cut caves are […]
German Artist Christian Wilberg Painted the Architecture and Landscape of Italy
January 8th, 2022 Awake Goy Christian Wilberg was a German painter. Wilberg was born in 1839 in Havelberg in the Margraviate of Brandenburg where he lived until 1861. He was originally a house painter before moving to Berlin where he studied painting at Eduard Pape’s atelier. After 18 months, Pape suggested to Wilberg that he should study further with Paul […]
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No Comments »Mycenaean Cult Of The Dead And Burial Architecture
December 28th, 2021 Awake Goy Tholos and the grave circles in the ancient citadel of Mycenae, located on a small hill, nestled between two larger hills on the fertile Argolid plain in the Peloponnese, Greece, exemplify a synergy of Bronze Age intellectual and artistic talents, invested in contemplating the nature of death and the possibilities of an Afterlife. The awareness […]
Forensic Architecture victory shows that Palestine censorship must be confronted
September 14th, 2021 Awake Goy Last month the investigative group Forensic Architecture pulled a show from the University of Manchester’s Whitworth Gallery after a statement of solidarity with Palestine was removed. “Forensic Architecture stands with Palestine,” read a statement in the group’s Cloud Studies exhibition. “We believe this liberation struggle is inseparable from other global struggles against racism, white supremacy, […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Architecture, Censorship, confronted, forensic, Palestine, shows, victory No Comments »The Architecture and Spiritual History of India’s Famous Barabar Caves
July 24th, 2021 Awake Goy The Barabar Caves are a group of rock-cut caves located in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. The Barabar Caves contain a total of seven caves, the oldest of which date to the Mauryan period. The caves from the Mauryan period are reckoned to be the oldest rock-cut caves in India. The Barabar Caves are […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Architecture, barabar, caves, famous, history, India, spiritual No Comments »Taq Kasra, Persian masterpiece of architecture in Iraq, to be restored
June 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy Taq Kasra, Persian masterpiece of architecture in Iraq, to be restored – Tehran%20Times TEHRAN – Iraq’s Minister of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities Hassan Nazim has said urgent restoration work is due to commence on Taq Kasra. Located near Baghdad, the ancient Persian masterpiece of architecture was partly collapsed last year, prompting criticism from many Iranian supporters of […]
Remnants of an ancient past: discover troglodyte architecture near capital Tehran
May 20th, 2021 Awake Goy Photo depicts an example of troglodyte architecture, which includes vertical shafts, rooms, and other interiors, dug by man into the southern face of Alborz mountain range in Eshtehard county, near Tehran, May 18, 2021. Iran is a haven for ancient troglodytic architecture which is almost forgotten in the face of modernity; today, fewer locals are […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: ancient, Architecture, capital, discover, remnants, Tehran, troglodyte No Comments »LiDAR Tech Unearths “Supertantalizing” Hidden Tikal Architecture
April 20th, 2021 Awake Goy Back in 2016, a group of scholars and researchers from the Foundation of Maya Cultural and Natural Heritage (PACUNAM) set out to study the rainforests of Guatemala using LiDAR remote-sensing technology in the hope of uncovering Tikal architecture and remains. Thanks to this superior technology, researchers have been able to make a fantastic new discovery […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Architecture, hidden, lidar, supertantalizing, tikal, unearths No Comments »Imam Mosque: a grand, sparkling jewel of Islamic architecture
February 9th, 2021 Awake Goy TEHRAN – At the southern end of the UNESCO-registered Imam (Naghsh-e Jahan) Square stands the big, grand, and imposing Imam Mosque in the touristic city of Isfahan, central Iran. Visitors to the mosque are mainly overwhelmed with good views of the main dome with its glorious profusion of turquoise-shaded tiles as one of the masterpices […]
Hellenistic Germania: The Art and Architecture of Leo Von Klenze
September 25th, 2020 Awake Goy Leo Von Klenze (1784-1864) by Franz Hanfstaengl (Album ‘Der Zeitgenossen’, Zeno Fotografie) Leo von Klenze (full name Franz Karl Leopold von Klenze) (ᛉ February 29, 1784 in Buchladen – ᛦ January 26, 1864 in Munich) was a German Neoclassicist architect, painter and writer. Court architect of Bavarian King Ludwig I with whom he had a […]
Baalbek: Jewel of Aryan Architecture in Ancient Lebanon
April 9th, 2018 Awake Goy In the post-Flood period., a mass migration of ancient Aryan tribes moved south from the Caucuses and into the plains of southern Turkey, Syria, Mesopotamia and into Lebanon, and across to Africa to settle in Egypt and Libya. Today, the populations of the earth are often perceived as the same today as they were thousands […]
Prehistoric Architecture
March 28th, 2018 Awake Goy By Sir Banister Fletcher (1946) …Ah, to build, to build, that is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and Sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, […]
