Sentences with phrase «ancient city at»

In this magical site, you must swim in the turquoise sea waters with the skyline of the ancient city at the hill top.

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Visitors will have access to the ancient ruins at Mada'in Saleh, a relic of the same ancient civilization that built the better - known city of Petra in Jordan and a UNESCO world heritage site.

But diplomacy seemed to rule the day at the conference, held in the ancient scenic city of Wuzhen in the eastern province of Zhejiang, and neither Smith nor Cook addressed issues of censorship or cyber regulation.

Moderator: William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History and Director, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Speaker 1: L. Randall Wray, Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City Speaker 2: Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Tuesday, September 11, 2012 About the Seminar Series: Modern Money and Public Purpose is an eight - part, interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012 - 2013 academic...

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.

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.

Up and down its narrow valleys and across its great plain went the pomp and panoply of the ancient world, and its more commonplace traffic as well: rich argosies from far Babylon, carrying the wares down to Egypt; royal messengers of the great kings who ruled in Persepolis, bearing decrees for the officer in charge at the frontier station of Assouan; plenipotentiaries of Hatti and of Egypt, seeking a modus vivendi in the political stresses of the thirteenth century; conquerors with their chariots and footmen and their tale of atrocities behind and yet before; wandering bands of foot - loose adventurers, seeking a good land where they might strike roots into the soil - all these and hosts of others were led among the Palestinian hills where went the great trunk roads of the ancient world, camped in the plains, bartered in the little cities, or stayed to lay permanent claim to some hit of the land.

It's hard to believe that it's been five years since my son, Stephen, and I spent two months in Rome — all of Lent and Easter Week — preparing a book that would allow readers to make the city's ancient Lenten station church pilgrimage at home.

Of great interest to some historians is the fact that the ancient Sumerians, at their temple in the city of Eridu, worshipped the water god Ea.

Palestine's mountainous backbone running north and south between the Mediterranean and the Jordan valley is higher and more rugged in the south; and the city of Jerusalem, well fortified by nature against ancient methods of attack, stands at an elevation of about 2,700 feet.

The invaders were called Amorites («Westerners») and for centuries they dominated the life of the Fertile Crescent, with city - states firmly established at such sites as Haran (from whence came Abraham, 11:31), Ugarit, Mari, and Babylon, which was ruled in the decades around 1700 by the renowned Hammurabi, Ugarit and Mari, among other ancient sites, have yielded profuse contemporary information of several kinds.

At the western edge of the rotunda, however, some ancient rock - hewn tombs are still to be seen, showing conclusively that the area was used as a burial ground before it was enclosed within the city wall.

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

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.

In Ancient Rome, the legend of the twin brothers who founded the city (Romulus and Remus) made the birth of twin boys a blessing, while twin girls were seen as an unlucky burden, since both would have to be provided with an expensive dowry at about the same time.

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!

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...

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.

There was palpable tension at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State today as some indigenes of the ancient city attacked persons believed to be indigenes of Osun over issue of ownership of the institution.

In January of 2012 the Costa Concordia, the largest luxury liner built in Italy, manufactured at the Fincantieri shipyards in the ancient seafaring city of Genoa to the highest standards of safety specified by law, struck a reef in the Mediterranean, and partially capsized, killing dozens of people.

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.

«Recovering nucleic acids from ancient viruses is extremely difficult and plagued by contamination,» notes Angelique Corthals, a forensic anthropologist at the City University of New York in New York City, who was not involved in the study.

This year's dig marked the third season of the Petra North Ridge Project, an initiative aimed at uncovering clues about the ancient city's non-elite population.

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

«All the important things that our societies do were invented then,» says Günter Dreyer who, until recently, was the director of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo, and has led excavations at Abydos, one of ancient Egypt's oldest cities, for more than 30 years.

«Only one of Syria's six World Heritage sites — the Ancient City of Damascus — appears to remain undamaged in satellite imagery since the onset of civil war in 2011,» said Susan Wolfinbarger, director of the Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights Project at AAAS.

The AAAS analysis reveals extensive damage in Aleppo, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, dating to the 2nd millennium B.C.: «In satellite imagery, massive destruction is obvious throughout the city, and especially at the World Heritage site of the Ancient City,» Wolfinbarger scity, and especially at the World Heritage site of the Ancient City,» Wolfinbarger sCity,» Wolfinbarger said.

Anthropologist Shara Bailey, an expert in ancient human teeth at New York University in New York City, says that «the barium method is novel and appears to be even more powerful» than previous approaches, adding that despite small sample sizes, «the authors present a strong argument for the utility of this method for extrapolating weaning history.»

An international research team at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, is exploring the remains of an ancient city in central Greece.

«The ancient city of Doliche, which was part of the province of Syria in Roman times, lies at the fringes of the Turkish metropolis of Gaziantep today,» explains Prof. Dr. Engelbert Winter from University of Münster's Cluster of Excellence «Religion and Politics.»

This find and others nearby (including the ancient city of Caral and a 3,600 - year - old adobe carving of a human sacrifice) are rewriting history by showing that the Americas had booming civilizations at the same time that Mesopotamia was thriving half a world away.

«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.

Designer Emily Wheat Maynard explored the relationship between Italian Renaissance and ancient Greek and Roman jewelry for her Masters thesis at The Bard Graduate Center for Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture in New York City.

This week ISIS militants destroyed ancient artifacts at a museum in the Iraqi city of Mosul; aggressively raided Syria and are taking Christian hostages; and are invading Libya.

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But «Magic City» was a compelling drama and one that deserved at least as much success as Starz's steamy, bloody ancient dramas.

As players make their way to the fabled Ringed City they will encounter ancient beasts, a new cast of characters teetering on the edge of insanity, new armor, weapons, magic, and at the bottom of it all, a long lost city filled with new horrors for players to overcCity they will encounter ancient beasts, a new cast of characters teetering on the edge of insanity, new armor, weapons, magic, and at the bottom of it all, a long lost city filled with new horrors for players to overccity filled with new horrors for players to overcome.

Lee draws rhyme and reason out of Aristophanes» ancient play Lysistrata, transforming it into a searing look at the modern - day war zones that plague Chicago and every other American city ruled by street toughs offering nothing but guns»n' poses.

One of its strongest assets is its cast, with superior actors in the leading roles: Cumberbatch as Steven Strange, the brilliant and arrogant New York surgeon whose reason for existence is cut short by a horrific car crash... Tilda Swinton as a mystic known as the Ancient One who is willing to lead him to enlightenment in Kathmandu if only he will subjugate his inflated ego... Chiwetel Ejiofor as her faithful follower and right hand man... Benedict Wong as the guardian of the library where the accumulated secrets of their sect are stored... and Mads Mikkelsen as the brilliant student gone rogue who may soon destroy the earth, one major city at a time.

The entire building is wrapped around a common area called the Agora — Greek for «gathering place» — which is modeled on the public courtyards at the heart of city life in ancient Greece.

I spent three weeks touring Spain this summer and the B180 was a perfect vehicle for Europe, narrow enough to get through ancient city streets (main photo), efficient at speed with highway economy of 4.5 liters per 100 km (52 mpg), and with useful safety aids such as attention assist (drowsiness detection) and lane departure warning.

Europeans rediscovered early Maya cities in the 1840s, and their bafflement at the ancient system of writing began a scholarly process that didn't have its final breakthrough until the mid-1970s.

I always find the visual imagery captivating: riding across the moors at night, entering the towering city of Tashban, spending a night among the tombs of the ancient kings.

As the Americans fight their way inland, both sides understand that the inevitable final conflict will come at the gates and fortified walls of the ancient capital, Mexico City.

Michael Heckenberger from the University of Florida, is excavating ancient ruins that indicate Fawcett was at least partially right in his quest for a lost city.

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