Second Report on the Publication and Conservation of the Tomb of Ramesses III in the Valley of the Kings (KV 11)

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-244
Author(s):  
Anke Weber ◽  
Judith Bunbury ◽  
Klara Dietze ◽  
Willem Hovestreydt ◽  
Dora Petrova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Site Management ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Conservation Treatment ◽  
Current State ◽  
Field School ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
A Site ◽  
Wall Decoration ◽  
Sedimentation Processes

The Ramesses III (KV 11) Publication and Conservation Project is currently developing a site management, conservation and publication strategy for the severely damaged tomb of pharaoh Ramesses III in order to prevent further deterioration and to preserve this cultural heritage site for future generations. Along with first urgent measures of conservation, a geo-archaeological survey of KV 11 and its surroundings, as well as a geomatic and photogrammetric survey of the tomb itself, were carried out. The detailed recording of the current state of the architecture and wall decoration allowed for further reconstruction of scenes and texts. Moreover, an archaeological sondage in the burial chamber revealed additional information about the ooding and sedimentation processes. A field school with students of Luxor University offered training in digital recording methods and epigraphy, geo-archaeological survey and mapping methodologies, and conservation treatment and assessment. The following article outlines preliminary results in the fields of geology, conservation, recording, reconstruction, and excavation.

scholarly journals The West Wall of the Portico of Obelisks in Hatshepsut's Temple in 2018 and 2019: conservation and studies

2019 ◽  
pp. 343-357
Author(s):  
Ewa Józefowicz
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Conservation Treatment ◽  
West Wall ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Wall Decoration

The longest, west wall of the South Lower Portico (Portico of Obelisks) of the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari has been reassessed in terms of its current state, compared to the original documentation by Edouard Naville, as an opening step to the author’s research project organized within the frame of the larger University of Warsaw Temple of Hatshepsut research program. A considerable number of blocks from the wall, including unpublished fragments, was tracked down in storage in the various temple blockyards and storerooms. About two-thirds of the wall decoration underwent conservation treatment in the spring of 2018 and 2019 seasons. The paper discusses the author’s progress in this research.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE LATE BRONZE AGE CHEKANOVSKY LOG-1 SETTLEMENT IN ALTAI FOOTLAND IN AUTUMN 2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 278-282
Author(s):  
Savko I. ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Anthropogenic Impact ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
General Description ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
Current State ◽  
Object Lifting ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
The Right

The article is devoted to the results of the survey of the archaeological heritage site “Chekanovsky Log-1 settlement” located on the right bank of the Alei river which currently belongs to the northern coastline of the Gilevsky reservoir in the Tretyakovsky district of the Altai Territory. During the exploration, the archaeological complex was examined for destruction, an eye plan was drawn up, and a general description of the current state of the monument was made. On the eroded part of the object, lifting material was collected, which was ceramics of the Late Bronze Age, presumably related to the Sargarin-Alekseevsk culture, as well as a fragment of a grater or grain grater. Based on the results of the measures taken, it is possible to draw a conclusion about the emergency state of the object, which is supported by the erosion of the surf line due to the activity of the reservoir. Significant anthropogenic impact is associated with the use of its area as a place for recreation and agricultural needs. Keywords: foothill Altai, Lower Bronze Age, Sargarin-Alekseevskaya culture, archaeological monitoring

The Reconstruction Project of Illumination Devices at the Krasnoselskaya Station of the Moscow Metro

2019 ◽  
pp. 59-66
Author(s):  
Ksenia I. Nechaeva
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Metro Station ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Passenger Transportation ◽  
Fluorescent Lamps ◽  
Current State ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Lighting Environment ◽  
Incandescent Lamps

The current state of the Moscow Metro station of the first priority that became operational in 1935 does not allow it to be called a cultural heritage site. This is due to the fact that lighting modernisation carried out by the Moscow Metro was based on fluorescent lamps. Such lamps are more energy efficient compared to incandescent lamps, which were used in original lighting devices specified in the Station Lighting Project developed by architects and designers. However, they significantly changed the station appearance, transforming the originally designed station with entire well visible architectural tectonics?1 from the standpoint of lighting into a simple, flat, unremarkable, and little loaded station of the Moscow Metro./br> This paper describes a method of lighting reconstruction at Krasnoselskaya station by means of original lighting devices that meet modern standards and requirements for cultural heritage sites. The historical analysis on the development of the station lighting environment was conducted during its operation in order to understand what kind of station was conceived by its architects, what changes occurred with its lighting over time, and how it influenced the station appearance and safety of passenger transportation.

CONTEXTUALIZING PALIMPSEST OF COLLECTIVE MEMORY IN AN URBAN HERITAGE SITE: Case Study of Chahar Bagh, Shiraz - Iran

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Mahmoudi Farahani ◽  
Marzieh Setayesh ◽  
Leila Shokrollahi
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Active Part ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Urban Heritage ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Historical Sites ◽  
A Site ◽  
Historical Centre

A landscape or site, which has been inhabited for long, consists of layers of history. This history is sometimes reserved in forms of small physical remnants, monuments, memorials, names or collective memories of destruction and reconstruction. In this sense, a site/landscape can be presumed as what Derrida refers to as a “palimpsest”. A palimpsest whose character is identified in a duality between the existing layers of meaning accumulated through time, and the act of erasing them to make room for the new to appear. In this study, the spatial collective memory of the Chahar Bagh site which is located in the historical centre of Shiraz will be investigated as a contextualized palimpsest, with various projects adjacent one another; each conceptualized and constructed within various historical settings; while the site as a heritage is still an active part of the city’s cultural life. Through analysing the different layers of meaning corresponding to these adjacent projects, a number of principals for reading the complexities of similar historical sites can be driven.

scholarly journals CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ON RESPONSIBLE HERITAGE SITE MANAGEMENT: THE CASE OF LUXOR CITY, EGYPT

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Eman Shokry Hesham ◽  
Inken Baller
Keyword(s):  
De Novo ◽  
Site Management ◽  
Heritage Site

Este texto tem como objetivo estimular uma conscientização crítica em relação ao desenvolvimento da gestão de sítios patrimoniais, especialmente no caso de sítios arqueológicos e das comunidades vizinhas no Egito. Até onde a gestão de sítios patrimoniais age de forma responsável em relação as comunidades locais? Para a identidade destas comunidades? E para os turistas? Este texto usa a ferramenta de avaliação do impacto do patrimônio desenvolvido por ICOMOS, para analisar os sistemas de gestão e a influencia do sítio do patrimônio mundial da UNESCO “Tebas antiga e sua necrópole” sobre a cidade moderna de Luxor, no Egito. Esta ferramenta propõe às autoridades locais como nacionais um conjunto de recomendações destinadas a desenvolver planos de ação para salvar a historia viva localizada ao redor do sitio. Os resultados da análise sugerem meios de melhorar esta ferramenta aumentando as estratégias de mitigação dos impactos ligados ao turismo assim como definindo de novo as variáveis dos sítios arqueológicos egípcios de modo a desenvolver modelos mais responsáveis com respeito à identidade das comunidades locais e a conscientização dos visitantes.

scholarly journals The Process of Adopting Organic Agriculture Technology by Rice Farmers in the Sri Rejeki Farmers Group, Godean, Sleman

2021 ◽  
Vol 232 ◽  
pp. 01039
Author(s):  
Indardi ◽  
Nurul Anggita Rahmawati ◽  
Siti Yusi Rusimah
Keyword(s):  
Organic Farming ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Agricultural Technology ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Rice Farmers ◽  
Field School ◽  
Evaluation Stage ◽  
Field Schools ◽  
Trial Phase

The research objective was to describe the adoption process in the application of organic agricultural technology. The research was conducted in Brongkol, Sidomulyo Village, Godean, Sleman. This research uses descriptive analysis, qualitative paradigm. Data were collected by indepth interviews and observations on farmers who have received guidance on organic farming technology through field schools until they are saturated with information (20 respondents). Research results, at the awareness stage respondents are familiar with information on organic farming technology some were long before, sometime before, during implementation, and there were farmers who knew some time after the field school. The interested stage, respondents seek additional information through their friends. The evaluation stage is the stage when respondents begin to seriously assess. The process of the length of evaluation conducted by farmers is quite diverse. In the trial phase, respondents applied it to their land, with various sizes. The adoption stage, generally respondents accept to apply technology, there is a small proportion who do not continue the adoption. It is important to do intensive counselling.

scholarly journals Seeing Eye to Eye? The presentation and understanding of interpretation at a New Zealand heritage site

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Elise Caddigan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Visitor Satisfaction ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Perception Of Quality ◽  
A Site ◽  
International Visitors

<p>Old St Paul’s is an iconic New Zealand heritage site managed by Heritage New Zealand.¹ It is a site that tells both national and local stories and draws a wide range of international and domestic visitors. Key recommendations made by the New Zealand Ministry of Tourism in their 2010 and 2015 strategies were that the country is no longer automatically perceived as ‘authentic’² by international visitors, and that heritage in New Zealand should be striving to deliver engaging, educational and rich cultural and social experiences.  Using Old St. Paul’s as a case study, this research asks if New Zealand heritage sites are providing exhibitions, interpretation and stories that successfully communicate the site management’s presentation goals to visitors. This relationship is evaluated through the exhibitions and interpretation used by site management, and compared with visitor understanding and their experience of these.  This research uses interviews and visitor surveys to gauge the management/visitor relationship at Old St. Paul’s. An in-depth interview with the site’s manager is analysed and presented comparatively against the results gained from conducting visitor surveys. This research provides an investigation into contemporary heritage practice in New Zealand and offers a pilot study for future development in the heritage sector. Furthermore, it is suggested that heritage sites could adopt similar summative practices to those used in the museum sector in order to monitor visitor satisfaction and the perception of quality.</p>

scholarly journals Vegetation Conditions in Sacred Compounds at Myanmar’s Bagan Cultural Heritage Site

Heritage ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 2745-2762
Author(s):  
Aung ◽  
Shibata
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Alien Species ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
The Other ◽  
Site Management ◽  
Canopy Coverage ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
The World ◽  
A Priority

Scrub vegetation encroaches into the proximity of many monuments at Myanmar’s Bagan Cultural Heritage Site, as can be seen at many other monuments on the world. The extensiveness of scrub vegetation can interfere with the integrity of the cultural landscape when ignored by site management. The current study examined how significant the occurrence of scrub vegetation might be, quantifying the canopy coverage with relative occupancy of other components in the sacred compounds. The sacred compounds in Bagan enclose religious monuments in environments classified as farmland, monastic residences, accessways, shrub-hosting areas, and scrub vegetation. The coverage of scrub vegetation was more than a quarter of the area of sacred compounds, whereas that of shrub-hosting patches was about half. The other components occupied less than one-fifth of the area. The associated occurrence of scrub vegetation indicated the invasion of alien species from the drier hinterland to the riverside of Ayeyarwady. While such a situation reveals site management as a priority, the presence of cultivated farmland in the vicinity of monuments represented suppression of weedy growth that may later facilitate the occurrence of scrub-type plants. This study suggests cultivation as a reasonable practice for the integrity of the cultural landscape and safeguarding the monuments in Bagan.

The Dying Water Heritage of Sarkhej Roza

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-159
Author(s):  
Gargi Mishra ◽  
Prasenjit Shukla ◽  
Mona Iyer
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Disposal Site ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Importance ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Impact Of Urbanization ◽  
The Impact

Sarkhej Roza, a fifteenth century complex comprising of the mausoleum, mosque and cascade of natural and man-made lakes, and located in peri-urban Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, is presently a heritage site of national importance under the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). Originally, the Sarkhej lake was excavated to serve the religious purpose of ablution, recreation and climate conditioning that were quite functional until the late twentieth century before rapid urbanization in the catchment of its adjacent interconnected feeder Makarba lake took place. Unfettered development in the past two decades has encroached the common catchment of Makarba–Sarkhej lake cascade by almost 50 per cent. The then perennial sacred Sarkhej lake is now a drying sewage disposal site. Sarkhej Roza has received considerable attention for conserving built heritage aesthetically in the past. Since it is the duty of all stakeholders including ASI, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, Sarkhej Roza Committee, civil society and communities to work in harmony towards sustaining their natural heritage, this research has undertaken detailed site and stakeholder assessment to understand challenges faced by the lake and its precincts, and derived learnings from the stakeholder’s perspectives on the impact of urbanization on this water heritage. This was done in order to chart out the possibilities of reviving the Markarba–Sarkhej lake cascade before it is too late.

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