Sentences with phrase «ancient kingdom of»

There was a time when the ancient kingdom of Nehekhara stood as a crown of human civilization.

A nameless former knight and his friend Charlotte travel to Harlech Island to discover the mysteries of the island, which seems to be tied to the legendary sword called Dragon Slayer and the ancient kingdom of Xanadu.

You are young Prince Myer, setting out to defend the ancient kingdom of Willner.

- The SWISS GARDEN Hotel is ideally located in the heart of the Anuradhapura and you are most welcome to the historically valuable first ancient kingdom of Sri Lanka.

Explore the fascinating intertwined countries of Vietnam and Cambodia, from the bustling metropolis of Ho Chi Minh and the ancient kingdom of Angkor Wat, to the spectacular natural beauty and unmistakable outline of Halong Bay and the waterways of the Mekong Delta.

Other activities: There are several excursions including a day to the ancient kingdom of Mengwi the ancestral palace of the kingdom and a trip to the cave temple and other sacred sights.

On this tour, we'll travel from the pulsating modern capital of Bangkok to the ancient kingdom of Ayutthaya and its famous «Buddha head wrapped in roots».

Use all of your wits and skill to unravel the mysteries of the ancient kingdom of Arcadia and the sea monster, Oceanhorn.

How the people of the ancient kingdom of Petra managed to grow verdant gardens amid a landscape of arid sandstone canyons can be summed up in one word: plumbing.

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Archaeologists have unearthed his ancient kingdom and its mighty walls, exactly as described in The Epic of Gilgamesh.

In Africa, Christians had a meaningful presence only in the ancient Christian kingdom of Ethiopia.

Present Americans resemble the stupid ancient Israelites at the end of their kingdom.

There emerge, however, from the «periphery» (so to speak) rather than from the center, pockets of order, meaning, and value which grow, spread, and die — that order, those values, and those meanings which gradually grew and spread until they constituted the various Kingdoms of Ancient Egypt would be an example of how order, value, and meaning emerge from the «bottom» and spread «upward» and «outwards» into dynamic pockets or aggregates of order, meaning, and value which prosper - overcoming and absorbing other pockets of order — until they no longer embody the imagination, vigor, and zest required for continued vitality and find themselves absorbed into other competing orders or gradually disintegrating into the silence of a Dark Age.

The Emersonian mystic «consciousness of the divine life flowing through and around him, making him one with the Godhead,» fought in him with the Calvinistic theocrat; and Calvin won; the new churchman, opening the doors of the sanctuary to all seekers after peace, contradicted in him the loyalist to ancient discipline, for whom the company of the faithful was the selected band, the trained shock troops of the kingdom of God in a rebellious planetary province.

One of the ancient prophets — the same, indeed, who spoke of the «king coming in gentleness» — also drew a picture of a good time to come when men of all nations will go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts; and on that day the prophet adds, «there shall no more be a trader in the house of the Lord of hosts,» 11 Jesus was offering symbolically a fulfillment of that prophecy, in line with his basic affirmation that the kingdom of God is here.

The messiah was SUPPOSED to re-establish the ancient Kingdom of David, (and even the disciples thought it was... they asked Jesus just before the Ascension: Acts 1:6 «They gathered around him and asked him, «Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?»

For the ancient Hebrew sages «kingdom of heaven» was a spiritual expression meaning the rule of God over a person who kept or began to keep the written and oral commandments.

The Ancient of Days, after the execution of the arrogant earthly king, gives a kingdom to one like a human being who comes on the clouds of heaven.

He preferred to see himself as the apocalyptic figure of Daniel 7, whose coming would spell the end of the bestial earthly kingdoms, and to whom the Ancient of Days would give the kingdom of God, rather than seeing himself a king in David's line, even an apocalyptic one.

In short, were we dependent upon the epigraphical sources alone for information about ancient Israel, we would know little more than that an entity known as Israel existed toward the end of the 13th century BC, and that two minor kingdoms, called Israel and Judah, existed alongside each other in the central Palestinian hill country after the mid-ninth century BC.

It is the human and humane kingdom that replaces all the bestial kingdoms of history and is given beyond history by the Ancient One to the Human One, to be his forever (7:9 - 14).

The nature of the despotic and imperial powers is described throughout the books of the Bible in the stories of the Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Greek and Roman empires and small kingdoms in the ancient Middle East.

The ancient Christian notion of politics is that it approximates the justice of the kingdom of heaven.

What he did was to choose for his entry, not a warhorse or a chariot but a mount that would call to mind ancient prophesy of a king who would come in lowliness to claim his kingdom.

Within this cosmopolitan Israel the sense of freedom, sparked off by the deliverance from Egypt and consummated in the kingdom of David, gave rise to a new kind of faith, which as we have seen, was destined to diverge more and more from the mythological religion of ancient man.

The same line of thought, carried a little further, brought the author of the Book of Daniel to describe how thrones were placed and the Ancient of Days seated, with a fiery stream flowing out in front of him, while millions of ministrants stood in his presence or performed his bidding; then «there came with the clouds of heaven one like a son of man, and there was given him dominion and glory and kingdom, that all peoples and nations should serve him» (Dan.

The modern life history of Georgia begins with two early Georgian kingdoms of late antiquity, known to ancient Greeks as Iberia in the east and Colchis in the west, around the shores of the Black Sea.

Each Big Five Thai journey explores the cultural traditions of years past and temples and shrines of ancient kingdoms.

Ghana was inhabited in the Middle Ages and the Age of Discovery by a number of ancient predominantly Akan kingdoms in the Southern and Central territories.

«We declare and confirm that the ancient Okomu - Apoi is an autonomous kingdom, of immemorial existence as part of the Ijaw Niger Delta ethnic nationality and not subject or subordinate to any other traditional authority including the Bini kingdom and its monarchy.

Hydra represent an evolutionary ancient branch of the animal kingdom; they have a simple body plan with a nerve net of only about 3000 neurons.

The two scholars have spent much of their careers excavating far to the south of Mersa Gawasis, uncovering the remains of ancient Axum, the seat of a kingdom that arose around 400 B.C. in what is now northern Ethiopia and Eritrea.

[1] The kingdoms of Napata and Meroe formed one and the same civilization, known as the «Kush kingdom» by their ancient Egyptian neighbors.

These toxins spanned the breadth of the animal kingdom, including ancient venomous groups such as centipedes, scorpions, spiders, coleoids (octopus, cuttlefish and squids) and cnidarians (jellyfish, sea anemones and hydras).

Now, a careful examination of records has revealed his identity: The bones belong to a man who lived in the ancient Mesopotamian kingdom of Ur, 6500 years ago.

Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are ancient molecules and indispensable components of all living cells — they are found in all three kingdoms of life i.e., in archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes.

Turtles are the only beasts in the animal kingdom that don hard outer shells formed from bone during embryonic development, and a scarcity of ancient turtle fossils has made it difficult to track the evolution of this unique trait.

Latest findings support the theory that teeth in the animal kingdom evolved from the jagged scales of ancient fish, the remnants of which can be seen today embedded in the skin of sharks and skate.

The evocative combination of iconic temples, ruins of ancient kingdoms, warm hospitality, and lively cuisine make this country one of the most popular destinations in Southeast Asia.

One of many traditional batik motifs, it symbolizes the ancient Javanese kingdom in general.

The ancient war between humans and a race of giants is reignited when Jack, a young farmhand fighting for a kingdom and the love of a princess, opens a

Beginning with the fall of the Han in 220AD, Dynasty Warriors depicts the ancient Chinese era known as the Three Kingdoms period in which the factions Shu, Wei, and Wu are continually engaged in battle to determine the founders of the next Dynasty.

Welsh actor Luke Evans stars as Vlad III Tepes, a prince of the ancient central European kingdom of Wallachia who becomes a hero when he leads the fight against the Ottoman Turks.

Without Gandalf, the adventurers face all manner of creatures, some friendly and many not, as they travel through the Mirkwood, the kingdom of the wood elves, the human community Laketown, and finally the dwarves» ancient home, and for much of this journey they are followed and harassed by ugly orcs with a blood vendetta against Thorin.

As most fans of this series already know, Dynasty Warriors has long based its stories on actual historical texts from ancient China, most notably the Records of the Three Kingdoms.

Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald) grows up in the royal household of a kingdom in ancient Scotland.

We learned that Ghana was the site of a number of ancient kingdoms that included the Ashanti Empire.

Only a brave few will set upon a quest to seek out a new light and fulfill the ancient prophecy before the ravenous darkness consumes what is left of the dying kingdom of Haven.

In A Game of Thrones, an ancient kingdom was torn by the ambitions of ruthless men and women; in A Clash of Kings, war, sorcery, and madness swept over the kingdom like a voracious beast of prey.

On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Italy, and Siberia, the Fargos find themselves embroiled with black - market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the North Sea, Stone Age ostrich egg shards inscribed in a cryptic language, a pair of battles separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years... and a skeleton that could just turn the history of human evolution on its head.