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| Sculptures carved out of the surface of a block of stone |
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| Sculptures carved out of a block of stone so deeply that they appear to stand independently |
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| Early 20th century style of painting, popular in Germany, which aimed to use color and theme to express the growing social and political tensions of the times. |
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| Paintings of religious or holy figures |
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| style from a specific period of art |
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| Style specific to a region only |
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| Study of human society by recovering and analyzing found artifacts (finding old crap and making links to the past) |
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| Large stone used for architectural purposes |
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| Simple Constructions method using a lintel, header, or architecture, as the horizontal member of a building |
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| A system of writing, common in the ancient Near East, using characters made up of wedge shapes |
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| Sumerian Religious Structure made of bricks built to form terraces - a place of religious and civil activities |
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| Having the form of a vault but constructed on the principle of a corbel arch |
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| Tunnel Composed of a series of arches |
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| Intersection of two barrel vaults |
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| Vault with supporting rib structures |
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| A system of writing in which the characters consist of realistic or stylized pictures of actual objects, animals, or human beings (in whole or part) |
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| an early Egyptian tomb with a flat rectangular shape |
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| A burial container for a human body typically made from some form of stone and often ornamented both on the lid and the side panels. From the Greek words for flesh (sarx) and to consume (phagein) |
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| Small sealed room housing the Ka statue of the diseased |
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| An upright stone slab decorated with relief carvings and frequently used as a grave mark |
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| A large burial complex. Literally means "City of the dead" |
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| A monumental entrance to an Egyptian temple |
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