Mineralogical, petrological and radioactivity aspects of some building material from Egyptian Old Kingdom monuments

Journal of Cultural Heritage

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-13

  Liritzis, I ^a   Sideris, C ^b   Vafiadou, A ^a   Mitsis, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Carving; Casting; Dose rates; Egypt; Granite; Limestone; Luminescence dating; Mineralogy; Nummulite; Quartz single aliquot; Radioactivity; XRD; XRF

Indexed keywords

EID: 40249100300     PISSN: 12962074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.culher.2007.03.009     Document Type: Article

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