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Environmental Pressures at Dirre Sheikh Hussein Sanctuary

  • Habtamu Gizawu Tola and
  • Peter Brimblecombe

13 September 2022

Dirre Sheikh Hussein is a religious complex in Ethiopia that dates from the 12th century or earlier. An important focus for pilgrimage, it lies in an isolated part of Oromia State on poorly drained semi-arid lowlands. Significant architecturally and...

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15 July 2022

For centuries, in the eastern Indian subcontinent, areas now in Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Odisha, and Bihar, temporary polychrome terracruda (air-dried clay) figural images have been created for periodic pujas (rituals of worsh...