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Komar and Melamid Homepage: Most Wanted Paintings on the Web.

By surveying what people liked and disliked in their art, these artists made composites of the paintings most calculated to please variousnationalities. Americans express a strong preference for landscapes or similar outdoor scenes.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater

This remote architectural site is administered by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

Emergence of Agriculture & Ancient Civilizations

Mysteries of the Bible

Note seven lectures here on Jericho, mentioned in the Bible (Book of Joshua).

Articles on Jericho in various online encyclopedias

Encarta

Encyclopedia of the Orient

Emory University Art Museum contains a few items from the Jericho excavation.

Çatalhöyük

The official website for ongoing investigations of this Neolithic site in Anatolia, often transcribed as Çatal Hüyük. Maintained at Cambridge University, UK.

The World's First City

Oneline abstract of an article by by Orrin Shane and Mine Küçük, from Archaeology, Volume 51 Number 2 March/April 1998. Check the Allegheny library for this periodical.

Catal Huyuk

This page of visual material on Çatal Hüyük was set up for Elton Daniel's class at the University of Hawaii.

The Mysteries of Çatal Hüyük

This interactive page for younger adults is maintained by archeologist Louise Doughty and the Science Museum of Minnesota. Includes virtual tour of site.

For more information about the solstice:

• Find Equinoxes and Solstices for a particular year.
• Ancient Origins: Solstice
• OCRT Ontario Consultants for Religious Tolerance maintains pages on how various world religions observe these days:
  • Winter Solstice Celebrations
  • Spring Equinox Celebrations and
  • Summer Solstice

Ancient Astronomy of the Fertile Crescent

• Ancient Astronomy, decent material and good links page.
• Jane Sellar Death of Gods in Ancient Egypt. The beginning sections of her book on Egyptian astronomy can be found online.

On Calendars

This Infoplease page gathers together many calendar sites.

FAQ about calendars

Nicely put together explanations of Gregorian, Hebrew, Islamic, Mayan, and Chinese calendars

Earth Calendar, tries to collect lists of all holidays everywhere.

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