I hate to say this – considering I am striving for new ideas and insights – but these all seem to revolve around commemorating and memorialising ritual spaces. Now, given that rooms and actual homes could just be where someone lived, and the person therefore could be the key – you then have to ask…
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Watchers in the 21st Century: The Saudi Royal Family
Why choose the House of Saud? Well, they have money and power, are into building big things that last, control a religion and too many world leaders avoid criticizing them. First, their background: The family goes way back – to 1446 – and family members are all descendants of Mani’ ibn Rabi’a al-Muraydi. Possibly (I…
Origin Story: An Evolving Hypothesis
The major downside of archaeology is the availability of evidence is limited to what has been found, and what can be found. For times before writing is known to have existed, we cannot know what people thought, for instance, so we rely on experts to make assumptions and educated guesses. Religion features heavily in those…
Built to Last: The Pyramids
The Elders left us two very different things, which have lasted millennia. Pyramids of great size, so big that they should survive any cataclysm to some degree. And statues that might be telling us nothing more than that there were men around. The size of the pyramids means they will survive. The shape perhaps would…