Sentences with phrase «dujiangyan ancient city»

The ancient city's culinary scene, Travel + Leisure reports, features food that incorporates noodles, fresh meat, seafood and herbs.

A sprawling ancient city on the banks of the Ganges, Patna is noisy and congested city and is used as a transport hub.

«There are few places in the world with as much significant history as Jerusalem, and having the chance to show the ancient city through its food was an honor.»

The only currency in the history of mankind that had actual intrinsic value was when people traded barley in the markets of the ancient city of Ur.

The group also took the ancient city and Assad - regime stronghold of Palmyra, in Syria.

According to the documentary film «Saving Mes Aynak,» the mine would in effect destroy the ancient city, though MCC and the Afghan government claim that they will «move» the city in order to extract the more than $ 100 billion of copper deposited directly beneath it.

Any large - scale human cooperation — whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe — is rooted in common myths that exist only in people's collective imagination.

The tourist gate and ticket house are ready at the ancient city of Karkemish, where Turkish troops crossed last month into Syria and ousted Islamic State militants from the border.

Ayomide Akinkugbe is an emerging storyteller, entrepreneur, (shower) singer, designer and strategist living in the ancient city of Ibadan, Nigeria.

The Euphrates river was that which served as a watery protection for the ancient city of Babylon over 2,500 years ago, with its various canals that cut through the city.

A team from the Italian Archaeological Mission to Luxor unearthed the remains in a funerary complex in the ancient city of Thebes.

The ancient city of Smyrna, located on the site of today's Izmir in Turkey, the gateway to Asia and stepping - stone to Europe, is sacred soil because of what happened there one Sunday, around 2:00 in the afternoon, in February of the year 155.

The broken clay pitcher, discovered in a bed of ashes in the Tel Shiloh dig site in Samaria, Israel, suggests that the ancient city - once the de facto capital city and spiritual center of ancient Israel - was burned to the ground, the Tazpit News Agency reports.

Some «televangelists» carelessly proclaim that God destroyed the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah because of «homosexuality.»

Damascus, a great trading center on the western border of the Fertile Crescent, is a very ancient city — perhaps the oldest anywhere in the world which still exists — while Antioch is famous for the fact that here the followers of Christ were first called Christians.

It comes as no surprise that ancient men were aware of their geography and their history, so it's no surprise when ancient cities and people are shown to have existed.

Although several ancient cities bore the name of Philadelphia, this is definitely the one listed among the seven churches by John in the Book of Revelation.

Looking back we see that many ancient cities were abandoned and whole peoples disappeared when their environments were destroyed by overuse.

Last month, ISIS bulldozed the ancient city of Nimrod, prompting the senior editor of the New York Review of Books to call for military protection of archeological sites.

Instead of subordinating artisans and entrepreneurs to the founding aristocracy, as the ancient city had done, the medieval city was ruled by a combination of grand bourgeoisie and small capitalists.

Baptismal water was the universal solvent not only of traditional religious distinctions within Judaism but also of the foundation stones on which the ancient city rested; for the church, it was the sole initiation and was not confined to a single family, clan, race, or social class.

Ancient cities, Weber notes, were socially structured by a separation between those who made a claim of descent from the founding clans (patricians) and those who could make no such claim (plebeians), a separation often spatially represented by the isolation of plebeians either at the foot of the sacred hill of the polis or in ghettos clustered at the walls.

Later, Southern European cities, with their Capulet - Montague feuding, more closely resembled ancient cities than did those of Northern Europe.

For instance you can find an ancient city that is described in the bible, however that doesn't automatically mean the people, actions and events took place there as well, it just means that the city actually existed, nothing more.

Christianity, of course, first erupted in the ancient cities of the Roman Empire, not its rural farmlands.

You need facts from the bible... try Sodom and Gomorra... These ancient cities have been excavated and scientists have found physical evidence of the cities being burned by fire, not just any fire either, the fire started on the roof tops and burned faster than any fire on earth.»

You need facts from the bible... try Sodom and Gomorra, kinda the direction our country is headed in... These ancient cities have been excavated and scientists have found physical evidence of the cities being burned by fire, not just any fire either, the fire started on the roof tops and burned faster than any fire on earth.

The ancient cities of Jerusalem, Sparta and Athens can stand for three different types of leaders — charismatic, military and persuasive.

Genesis 19:1 - 25 Some «televangelists» carelessly proclaim that God destroyed the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah because of «homosexuality.»

Before proceeding to the weighing of the heart, however, the soul must appear in a great judgment hall in which are seated forty - two gods, each representing one of the ancient city states of which Egypt was compounded.

Acre, an ancient city on the Mediterranean coast near present - day Haifa, had been captured by the Crusaders in 1104, and for almost two centuries, with some interruptions, it remained a thriving port and commercial center with ties to the West.

And these ancient city states came to the bad end which in our day is threatening to overtake the national states into which Christendom has broken up in modern times.

(It is not accidental that tours of the Holy Land tend to avoid the coastal plains: the ancient cities there were Philistine and Phoenician, not Israelite.)

In this ancient city, I had this sudden epiphany that, in prehistoric times, ancient cooks would have naturally experimented with combining two of their favorite crops.

In this ancient city, I had this sudden epiphany that, in prehistoric times, ancient cooks would have naturally...

Chef Asif R. Syed was born and raised near Hyderabad, India, known as the ancient City of Kings and Pearls and famous for its Muglai cuisine.

From Ethiopia and across the Red Sea to Yemen, where its cultivation blossomed and the early coffee trade centered around the ancient city of Mocha, a major coffee...

At Francescana in the ancient city of Modena, Bottura takes traditional Italian dishes and turns them on their head with modern and innovative techniques.

Using traditional methods to make its classic dry gin in a copper still named Ebor, after the Roman name for York, Eboracum, the self - funded distiller has used Croxsons to supply it with a primary packaging solution that evokes the «solid, reliable and historic» significance of the ancient city.

In excavations of the ancient cities of Harpatta and Mohenjo - Daro in the Indus Valley in what is now Pakistan, grinding stones were found that contained traces of mustard seed, cumin, saffron, fennel, and tamarind.

Commenting on the packaging, the York Gin Company's Emma Godivala says: «We are very excited to be launching the first gin made in the ancient City of York, and we've had much support from other gin makers and enthusiasts — especially within Yorkshire itself.

Exploring the ancient city of Tunis, Tunisia's capital, I discovered ras el hanout with the help of a guide, Karim, who lived in a fourteenth century building near the medina, the heart of the old city.

The television follows a winged Mexican through Mexico's jungles, over rivers and mountains, to the ancient cities and into the mighty pyramids, where (as pictured above) the ancient peoples of Mexico can be found, along with their occupiers, artfully disporting themselves in front of wall paintings.

The athletes converge, and despite the inevitable problems the ancient city is ready for a gay and gala show

At Kano Pillars he won the Nigeria League title with the team twice in a row and his jersey number 23 became famous in the ancient city little wonder he has picked it up again ahead of the start of next season.

Sebastian literally means «person from the ancient city of Sebasta» or «vulnerable».

Tragedy struck in the ancient city of Abeokuta, Ogun state, as a 17 - year - old boy and his guardian, a policeman, were on Sunday electrocuted.

The store, Ebenco Pharmacy and Store which is located at the More Area of the ancient city, went down at about 10 pm on Saturday night.

The group, as contained in its congratulatory letter to the new monarch in Iwo on Wednesday, said the emergence of Oba Akanbi heralded the beginning of a new phase in the history of the ancient city which the group however regretted is in dire need of rapid development.

From the Aminu Kano International Airport to the palace of the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, down to the venue of the wedding, it was glanour as exotic cars ran after one another in the ancient city of Kano.