Sentences with phrase «ancient cities on»

To the south of Kolmybia is Lindos, now a popular resort, but originally the site of one of the most important ancient cities on Rhodes.

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

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.

Archaeologists hope that a funding and conservation boost can halt wall collapses and other erosion occurring at the ancient city on Italy's Neopolitan coast

Bridget: Joins a dig for an ancient city on the coast of Turkey and discovers that her archaeology professor is available in every way except one.

Just because the lush, seafront city of Alcudia is a mere 24 square miles (60 square kilometres) that has no bearing on how much this lovely port and ancient city on the island's nether region, can offer holiday makers.

Come see us for a beautiful night hearing some amazing stories through the streets of the Ancient city on a ghost tour!

In Knossos (1993), named after an ancient city on the Greek island of Crete, fragile, glimmering yellow lines rise and branch out against a night - black ground, a coiling red flower inside; phosphorescent white stars float by in a fading arc.

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Turning cities into sponges: how Chinese ancient wisdom is taking on climate change The Guardian

On the origins of cities as offshore banking centers - chapter 3 from my Urbanization volume, Urbanization and Land Ownership in the Ancient Near East (ed.

On Wednesday, almost 4,000 ancient artifacts - including objects from the «lost city» of Irisagrig - that had been smuggled into the U.S. were...

Why a non-terrestrial culture would name their planet after a figure in ancient Roman mythology is open to question (Romulus and Remus were reared by a she - wolf and went on to found the city of Rome, which also takes its name from Romulus).

Mosul, the second - largest city in Iraq, is built on and adjacent to the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, the setting for the biblical book of Jonah and once the most powerful capital of the ancient world.

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.

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.

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.

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority.

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.

This Christmas, churches across the UK will host their best - attended services; ancient rural chapels will offer standing room only on Christmas day and city - centre churches will see hundreds of people descend on them.

For me, the exception is Zabar's, an ancient specialty food store on the Upper West Side of New York City.

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

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.

Roma, March 26, 2014 — The room is in Rome's city hall, located in a Renaissance palace that sits on ancient ruins and overlooks Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio.

I have baby worn while riding a camel in Egypt but I won't get into that I have worn my babies while at the pumpkin patch, in rickshaws in Asia, watching the water buffalo on the banks of the holy Ganges river, hiking the Julien Alps, milking a goat in Serbia, mushroom picking in Slovenia, while exploring the ancient mud city of Bam, Iran, and of course every time I go to Target!

These commoners played a fundamental role in the Magna Carta story, and left their mark on Magna Carta in Clause 13, guaranteeing London and other cities «ancient liberties and free customs».

Learn about the ancient earth - shaking and earth - shaping events of the city at Inwood Hill Park on Sat., Apr. 21st from 1:00 p.m. — 2:30 p.m.. The...

As such, an act of mass murder was played on an ancient myth: the myth of the destruction of the sinful city.

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.

A source who bagged not to be named but aware of the tradition of the ancient city informed our correspondent on Wednesday morning that the new king can be installed any moment from now whether the body of the deceased monarch has been committed to the mother earth or not since there is no any recorded rite to be done that states that the deceased monarch must be buried before a new king can be installed.

The ancient city of Akure, the capital of Ondo State is currently on fire following removal of the name of the governorship candidate of the PDP, Eyitayo Jegede from the final list as released by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

The ancient city of Akure, the capital of Ondo State is currently on fire following removal of the name of the governorship candidate of the PDP,...

On Egypt's northern coast, where the Nile delta meets the sea, there once stood two cities of such wealth and grandeur that they were famous throughout the ancient world.

Poor sanitation would have meant that disease was rife in ancient cities, but exposure to the pathogens would have led to resistance developing, which the inhabitants would have passed on to their descendants.

They focused on the Fertile Crescent between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris in Iraq, where lie the ruins of the ancient city - states of Assur, Babylon, Ur and Uruk.

In four Maya city - states — Coba, Naranjo, Calakmul and Naachtun — ancient artists illustrated at least 10 different royal women standing on bound captives or towering over prisoners.

Neurologists from around the world will debate these and other questions at the 2nd World Congress on Controversies in Neurology, hosted this year in the ancient Greek city of Athens.

Separate analyses of documents from ancient Egypt — everything from inscriptions on monuments to tax records, poems, and letters — hint that eruptions may have contributed to social unrest, including riots, tensions between Egyptians and their Greek overlords, famines and plagues, and farmers abandoning their land and moving to the cities.

In a new study in the journal Nature Astronomy, a team of researchers from Dublin City University, Columbia University, Georgia Tech, and the University of Helsinki, add evidence to one theory of how these ancient black holes, about a billion times heavier than our sun, may have formed and quickly put on weight.

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of the city - state of Rome, founded on the Italian peninsula around 800 BC.

Women in ancient Pompeii were not all like the classical beauties depicted on the city's famous frescoes.

In the December Scientific American science writer Zach Zorich reports on the discovery of a spectacular artwork in the ancient Maya city of Holmul in Guatemala.

These are the findings of anthropological investigations carried out on bones of warriors found during excavations in the ancient city of Ephesos.

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.

«What used to be considered remains of some irrelevant settlement on a hill can now be upgraded to remains of a city of higher significance than previously thought, and this after only one season,» says Robin Rönnlund, PhD student in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Gothenburg and leader of the fieldwork.

A 2,700 - year - old portico was discovered this summer on the site of the ancient city of Argilos in northern Greece, following an archaeological excavation led by Jacques Perreault, Professor at the University of Montreal's Centre of Classical Studies and Zisis Bonias, an archaeologist with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.

Located on the edge of the Aegean Sea, the ancient city of Argilos was the first Greek colony established in this area around the great Strymon River.

On the other: American archaeologists Winifred Creamer and Jonathan Haas, who are married, believe the ancient city of Caral was part of an agricultural society that expanded to the coast.