Sentences with phrase «by ancient building»

Ancient monuments and archaeological sites are perfectly preserved; the museums are bursting with the genius of Italy's finest sons: Raffaello, Michelangelo, Tiziano, Canova; contemporary architects are still inspired by ancient buildings and squares (piazzas).

Not exact matches

You would have to go back to the pyramids of ancient Egypt or the building of the Terracotta Army by China's first emperor more than 2000 years ago to find comparable examples of resource wastage on such a grand scale.

So, you see, there are many, many other explanations for a really big wooden boat to have been built by ancient people, and some that don't involve any ancient myths whatsoever, let alone one about a god who decided to destroy mankind which happens to be a pretty common theme throughout religion.

The Chinese built gigantic wooden boats, so it is not really impossible that a really huge wooden boat could not have been built by ancient people without divine guidance.

So a really huge wooden boat built by ancient people using only their own wits isn't impossible.

Bath was an ancient place of healing because of the hot springs and it's famous for its baths built by the Romans.

A church is technically a term for a gathering of citizens in a town (origins from ancient Greek), but is commonly understood by the Christian adoption of the word as gathering of Christians in a building or structure to facilitate worship and the meeting of its members, specifically in Christianity

«Just like most of the earliest papyri of the New Testament and other literary and documentary papyri, a fragment this damaged could have come from an ancient garbage heap,» the King says building on prior research by Luijendijk.

So when in middle age I come at last to believe that a nation builds up a moral treasury of merit by the sacrifices of its people in war and I begin to worry, like the ancient moralists did, that we grow fat, lazy and contemptible amidst our plenty, I don't have a leg to stand on.

The structure is composed of curving steps, levels, passageways and water pools, and the entire thing is built without cement, inspired by ancient Mayan building techniques, and using old quarrymen's tools.

The space — think Shinto shrine meets tree house — was built by Brackett's father using ancient craftsmanship.

She builds layers of meaning by combining ephemera, oil paint and beeswax, rendering modern images in an ancient medium.

Chinese and Indian medicine is built on valid ancient beliefs and I'd much rather be doing preventative care than be sliced up like deli meet by a surgeon.

But take time to gaze at its historic buildings, wander down its alleyways, stumble upon its ancient villages (often swallowed up, but not entirely drowned by suburbanisation), give some thought to its street names and London will unfold its hidden secrets to you.

It is not possible to build democratic socialism by using the institutions of the Ancient British State.

When John Bright spoke in 1865 of «the mother of all Parliaments» he was actually referring to England as the ancient country of Parliaments, not to that building by the Thames, built by Sir Charles Barry and embellished by Augustus Pugin, to which the tourists still flock.

The NYC - owned landmark building that's home to the Department of Buildings — best known to passers - by for its ancient clock advertising the old New York Sun newspaper — is falling apart.

Other reports say that the forces of the group, increasingly known by its Arabic acronym Daesh, are using bulldozers to demolish ancient buildings.

Each balmy summer brings a swarm of volunteers, many wearing identical yellow T - shirts, who strip away soil and vegetation from the hillside while throngs of tourists hover at the edges, eager for a glimpse of what is said to lie beneath the dirt: the world's oldest and largest pyramids, more vast and ancient than those in Egypt, built by a mysterious and highly advanced civilization that has been long forgotten — until now.

There, on an arid patch of land surrounded by ancient mesas, was my destination: Spaceport America, the world's first complex built solely for commercial space exploration.

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.

Among them were the massive foundations of the first Iron Age sanctuary, numerous monumental architectural fragments of the Roman main temple, but also the extensive ruins of an important Byzantine monastery which was built by followers of the Christian faith after the fall of the ancient sanctuary.

Ancient cities dealt with trash by building atop their detritus over the centuries (to the delight of today's archaeologists).

I have always been dismayed by archaeologists» lack of imagination — if an ancient building's purpose isn't obvious then it...

The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000 — 3500 B.C. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU, New York City Millennia before the great pyramids of Giza were built, elaborately painted female figurines and costumes gleaming with copper and gold were being created by the artisans of Old Europe, who thrived around 4500 B.C..

It may also explain why other bodies in the Kuiper belt are unusually bright, the researchers say: Fresh ice is typically much brighter than an ancient stagnant surface on which dust and substances produced by interactions with sunlight or other radiation have built up through the ages.

UNSW Sydney scientists have discovered the purpose of a famous 3700 - year old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing it is the world's oldest and most accurate trigonometric table, possibly used by ancient mathematical scribes to calculate how to construct palaces and temples and build canals.

The largest - ever study of ancient DNA shows that the ancient people of Britain, including the those who built Stonehenge, were almost completely replaced by a wave of migrants from Europe about 4500 years ago, BBC News reports.

They turned up in an ancient reef built by cyanobacteria, says Fritz Neuweiler of Laval University in Quebec.

Scientists have recently discovered an ancient muscle building trick used by the Aztecs, just pay $ 97 to learn all about it....

The film presents a fantastic contrast between the old and the new right from the very start when a statue of Christ is flown in by helicopter past ancient Roman aqueducts, over construction sites for new suburban tenement buildings, and over the rooftop of penthouse apartments decked out with bikini - clad women of the leisure class.

The ancient temples found in Angry Aztec and several other locations are also heavily occupied by the Kremlings, although whether or not they built them is never specifically mentioned.

Surrounded by northwest Montana's endless landscape — with its vast, overgrown valleys, winding trout streams, ancient forest, and snow - capped mountain ranges — this remote retreat was an idyllic setting for the hunting lodge and horse farm that were first built here.

If you look around our school on a typical afternoon, you will see sixth graders studying botany and history by planting tomatoes in our garden and building models of ancient aqueduct systems, third graders using research to design proposals for more diverse books in our libraries, and kindergartners buzzing as they return from interviewing local business owners in downtown Durham.

After half a century of building essentially the same car — the body styles may have changed but the basic template is still large, luxurious, mildly sporty long - distance tourer powered by ancient Chrysler V8 — the Fighter is Bristol's launchpad into the 21st Century.

For instance, the tablets used by the ancient Egyptians suffered from poor mobility as they were too heavy to be carried around, made of a solid block of stone as they are while tablet from the Mayan civilization is depicted to have a self destruct feature built into it that won't exist post 2012.

Ancient and Old World gems such as the Pyramids, the Roman Coliseum and Notre Dame are included, as are New World icons like the Chrysler Building don't be dismayed by its initial stunted appearance, just follow the directions.

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Built by the sea, Tulum was the most beautiful of the ancient Mayan cities — you'll definitely want to visit!

The luxury Entrance Gate (Candi Bentar) and dressy ancient house building are decorated by the fertile tropical garden.

Set amongst the ancient buildings of Trastevere surrounded by restaurants and bohemian bars.

These ancient inhabitants of the lake, known as the Water Tribe, have built their own «islands» by periodically adding new layers of a type of reed unique to the area called «Totora».

Visit Limahuli Garden and walk on ancient lava rock terraces built over 700 years ago by the Polynesians.

Thousands of miles of plains, mountains and glaciers, stunning canyons and natural monuments shaped by the wind, ancient cave paintings and glyphs can still be seen — as can modern cities complete with entertainment centres and shopping malls, built from scratch in the middle of the steppe.

Celebrate Christmas on the shores of Lake Bled, surrounded by tree - topped mountains, before exploring the iconic «Floating City» of Venice, where ancient buildings overlook the stunning lagoon that gives the city an international reputation.

This is the largest of the Greek Islands in the Aegean Sea and when you arrive by boat you will be met with its most famous archaelogical site — the Portara, the doorway to the ancient temple of Apollo built in 522 BC.

The magnificent Pantheon which was built between 27 and 25 B.C. by the consul Agrippa, Prefect of the Emperor Augustus, is reportedly the most complete ancient building in the city.

Our excursion continues to Châteauneuf - du - Pape, a medieval village built on a hillside and overlooked by the ruins of an ancient château.

After Memphis we reached Saqqarah, the ancient burial ground, which features the step pyramid of Djoser, built by Imhotep, considered to be the first stone construction built on such a large scale.

Immerse yourself in ancient Roman history when we stop at Pont Du Gard, a UNESCO World Heritage Site built in the 1st century; visit the amphitheater in Arles, the city with the most Roman remains outside of Rome, Then, moving on to the Middle Ages, visit Rocamadour, a town perched high on a cliff; walk by the ancient battlements in the beautifully preserved, medieval town of Carcassonne; and visit Beaune's Hôtel - Dieu charity hospital, built in 1443 after the Hundred Years» War left many of the town's population destitute..