Sentences with phrase «around the fifth century»

The enigmatic statues, 125 and 180 feet tall, were hewn directly into the face of a sandstone cliff around the fifth century A.D., possibly by the Buddhist rulers of the Kushan empire.

Around the fifth century A.D., after the Roman Empire had collapsed, people from other parts of Europe migrated to Britain.

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But Moutiers began life in the fifth century as a settlement huddled around a monastery, and in the ninth century Charlemagne made it one of the six capitals of his Holy Roman Empire.

All around it, newly commissioned artworks mix with pieces from the Bardis» collection: a marble statue of Diana from the fifth to first century BC alongside a Sarah Morris painting, Lina Bo Bardi (2013), describing the curves of Bo Bardi's nearby 1951 Bowl chair.