Sentences with phrase «ancient cemeteries»

Within walking distance from the Inn are fabulous restaurants, historic sites, museums, art galleries, unique shops, ancient cemeteries, attractions, 11 - blocks of pedestrian - only traffic, and a multitude of tours.

Digging out and examining human remains from ancient cemeteries is the expertise of osteoarchaeologists (osteology being the examination of human remains and archaeology their recovery, with anthropology a combination of both)-- a hobby that turned into a profession for Duhig and took her into the world of crime investigation.

Builders tearing up the Sheraton Biscayne Bay hotel and a downtown parking lot in Miami to make way for condo developments found themselves face - to - face with the city's native past: a pair of ancient cemeteries, remains of the Tequesta tribe that once dominated southeast Florida.

The Mount of Olives, Jerusalem's ancient cemetery, hummed with political conversation when Passover pilgrims spent the night there.

That night, over 100 more graves in the ancient cemetery were demolished, further eroding what Palestinians see as a losing battle to preserve a sacred cultural landmark.

The site was left unguarded, and local villagers built small brick mausoleums over most of the ancient cemetery.

Her job in the ancient cemetery is to rebuild each skeleton from the disordered bones and fragments (there are no less than 206 bones in the human body).

You've received a cryptic text calling you to an ancient cemetery.

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Shortly after multiple midnight bulldozing destruction of a ancient Islamic cemetery in Jerusalem crushing hundreds of headstones and monuments under the guise of forcing a Israeli Peace Museum on the Palestinian people, rabid bands of Zionists firebombing a Mosque must seem rather tame.

For all of its Renaissance splendor, the most impressive thing to me about St. Peter's is the necropolis, the ancient Roman cemetery far beneath the magnificent church of Bernini and Michelangelo.

A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.

Researchers are trying to extract DNA from skeletons buried in the ancient Philistine cemetery of Ashkelon, in what is now Israel.

An answer came in 2016 from a study of the ancient DNA of Anglo - Saxons and indigenous Britons, who were buried side by side in the fifth and sixth centuries in a cemetery near Cambridge, U.K..

But the project's Jerusalem site is on and adjacent to the ancient Muslim cemetery of Mamilla, located just to the west of the ancient city's walls.

He added that on 11 February looters emptied a storage area in Dashur, an important ancient necropolis in the southern part of the famous cemetery at Saqqara, which contained large blocks and small artifacts.

In a 20 October letter, leading archaeologists speak out against plans to break ground on a museum that they say will disturb an ancient Muslim cemetery in the heart of Jerusalem.

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An ancient pet cemetery has been discovered in Egypt, proving that pets were respected as family members.

• Chauchilla Cemetery — ancient eerie tombs.

Other Chinatown attractions include the Chinese cemetery — an ancient graveyard for those who were denied burial during the Spanish era.

She has written five books in five years featuring travel throughout the south, and a trail of historic churches, cemeteries and ancient forests.

Despite being a small country, Bahrain is renowned for its rich cultural and historical legacy, making it an excellent destination for adventurous travellers keen to explore its ancient burial mounds and other significant archaeological sites, such as the well - preserved ruins of residential houses, temples and cemeteries which date back to the third millennium BC.

Other artifacts include Sumerian cuneiform clay tablets (some of the world's oldest writing), Egyptian mummies, a crystal ball owned by China's Dowager Empress, monumental stone sculptures from the ancient Maya and 4,500 - year - old jewelry from the Royal Cemetery at Ur.

Other popular activities include checking out the colorful local cemetery and the ancient Mayan temple at the southernmost point of Isla Mujeres.

The island interiors feature mysterious caves and remnants of ancient civilizations, including cave paintings and submerged cemeteries, while under the waves await encounters with sharks, manta rays and barracudas.

Inspired by Edinburgh's famous One O'clock Gun and the city's ancient maritime history, Timeline explores themes of sound and distance, plotting a series of short sound installations in some of the city's most atmospheric sites, from The Nelson Monument on Calton Hill, to Old Calton Cemetery, Waverley Bridge and The National Gallery of Scotland on The Mound.