I criticize recent applications of the "cosmogram" concept to ancient Maya architecture and cities. Although cosmograms-graphic representations of aspects of the cosmos-are known from Late Postclassic ...

Thanks to their loud, brash, and nocturnal nature, rock concerts are often held in dark bars and nightclubs designed to withstand the abuse of rowdy fans and guitar-smashing rockers. But as musicians ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study builds on the premise that local knowledge of limestone—and its workable characteristics—was foundational to landscape inhabitation ...

Washington D.C. has earned a reputation for iconic architecture. Emerging from the L'Enfant and McMillan Plans, Washington’s cityscape includes wide streets and low-rise buildings that sprawl out from ...

DURING the final days of the Red Army’s fierce battle for Berlin, Yuri Valentinovich Knorosov, a Soviet artillery soldier, found boxes of books in front of the Prussian State Library. Clearly, the ...