Museums have expanded beyond their initial role in preserving artefacts as memory
intuitions, playing an educational role and being tourist attractions. They had to adapt and …

Few images are as evocative as the silhouette of the Arab dhow as, under full sail, it tacks to
windward on glittering waters of Red Sea before moving across the face of the rising or …

This article presents the results of a project to 3D laser scan and digitally model 14
watercraft from the Qatar Museums collection, comprising a range of regional vessels: most …

A hazard zoning map is the most essential tool during the crisis management cycle's
prevention and risk reduction phase. In this study, a geographic information system (GIS) is …

Vernacular sewn boats from southern Iran and Kerala, India, in the collection of Qatar
Museums are documented and their construction described. The Iranian baggāra s are …

Tracing the development journey of the Arabian Gulf region with a forward-looking
perspective, this book describes how a combination of good fortune, creative …

Coming into force in 2009, the UNESCO 2001 Convention on the Protection of the
Underwater Cultural Heritage has grown in reputation as the leading international …

The great diversification of the archaeological, historical and ethnographic data has
determined a complexity of classification criteria for cataloging within the standards of the …

This chapter gives an overview about the small watercrafts, used in the countries along the
Western Indian Ocean from the nineteenth century until the oil-caused development …

This thesis explore the wide and complex definition of the space named as house in an
indigenous community, the Nahuas, located in the Zongolica Mountain Range, Mexico. It will …