Burial monuments and structures

and your commitment towards green burials. One of the big needs in Minnesota is to have more green cemeteries that are committed to our ecology - and to help promote the green burial concept. On a high level, a green funeral and burial is: So, basically, to create a "green" cemetery you need to follow these steps:: Establish a cemetery, following the local rules and regulations for creating a cemetery. Make the cemetery "green" in accordance with green burial regulations and certification guidelines

AP English Free Response Answer #1 Monuments placed in public spaces such as parks and museums give people the ability to be transported to the past, able to witness and experience events that have had large effects on the course of history. In the creation of a memorial or monument, a variety of factors and options must be taken into account in order for the monument to achieve its intended purpose. One must determine whether the monument is placed in a desirable location, is historically accurate

Monuments such as the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and San Vitale in Ravenna, perform a great importance in Byzantine and Islamic architecture. Both of these structures did not exclusively represent the main place of worship, but most importantly as a symbol of achievement and growth within the current times of construction. Starting in 524, under the influence of Orthodox bishop Ecclesius, the development of San Vitale was to represent the achievements of the emperor Justinian. Julius Argentarius

In this statue, Pepy II is dressed exhibiting his highness, wearing his royal kilt and headdress but he is scaled down to the size of a child. He was seated on his mother’s lap. This is significant of his inheritance of sovereignty at an early age, while paying homage to the queen, as she is portrayed wearing a vulture-skin headdress (linking her to the goddess Nekhbet and proclaiming her of royal blood). Since Pepy II inherited the governance at age six, Queen Merye-ankhes ruled on his behalf until

Edifices to the Gods and Social Perception of A Nation Extraordinary constructions of monuments seem to have been the staple for the ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilization yet their purposes proved somewhat different. For the Sumerian civilization, the construction of the ancient monuments served a multiple purpose as social, economic and religious centers and in the latter half of the third millennium B.C.E. the Ur-based civilization focused on building schemes for their administrative,

The Indian mounds built of earth are very impressive landmarks and important remains of native people. There are many reasons why Native Indians build the mounds. One of them was a platform for villages, and place for seasonal gathering, or political gathering. It was also place to bury the important members of the local tribal groups (like Boys, Pharr, and Byum). Mounds were also used as location of major regional trade festivals. There is also theory that the mounds were used as a conventional

Celts were people of the Iron Age of medieval times. The exact locations of where the Celts were hard to find at the time. They were a cult that had different spots throughout the country. The Celtic language was not known very well through a wide spread. The language was difficult and only spoken with the other cult members. Later on the Celts were invaded and they lost the place they lived in and those who they loved. The cities and people they lost was in high numbers. Even though the Celts were

that the people of Ur worshiped was the Nanna or the Moon God. As mentioned above, the city of Ur was divided into two areas, namely, common district and the sacred place. The sacred place has a large monument or massive brickwork which is called the temple of Sin or the god of the moon. This monument was erected by the king of Ur about 4000 years ago. The temple was made in a series of platforms, one platform on top of another. The people of Ur assumed that the God lived at the third platform. In

just people native to the area. There are remains of a metal worker that4 lived in Germany around 3000 BCE and a little boy from the Mediterranean that was buried around 5000 BCE. This suggests that people may have pilgrimaged here as a place for burial. It seems that the neolithic people that built Stone Henge had a vast knowledge of astronomy, architecture, and engineering. It is largely believed that this colossal site was primarily used for religious ceremonies that took taking place with astronomical

crops. Ancient Egypt is an example of one of these early river valley civilizations, as it developed as a result of the Nile River. These river valley civilizations shared a quite a number of similarities, one of the being the construction of large structures as a show of wealth or way of appeasing gods and the development of unique building strategies. Out of the development of Ancient Egypt, the key features that arose from its civilization