Sentences with phrase «excavated ruin»

Altun Ha was one of the largest Mayan trading hubs and is the country's most excavated ruin with more than 250 buildings for visitors to view.

An old painting found in the excavated ruins of King Sardanopolis of Ninevah — 888 BC depicts a mother with something resembling a milk feeding bottle in one hand and a spoon kind of structure in another.

They visited and excavated the ruined cities of their predecessors and assimilated the old gods, calendars, writing, and crafts.

Unlike many excavated ruins where the majority of the visible structures are pyramids and large royal burial sites, Caracol is large and well - explored enough that you can still see examples of residential areas, agricultural areas and gathering places, although the buildings that were once there haven't always survived.

In Pakistan, archaeologists are excavating the ruins of what they believe may be one of the oldest cities in the world.

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In the ruins of a shrine excavated next to the gate of Lachish, the largest city of the kingdom of Judah after Jerusalem, archaeologists found an altar with the horns cut off from each corner.

Archaeologists do not excavate «facts»; they excavate material remains — city ruins, wall foundations and potsherds.

By the end of that century, archaeologists had excavated a number of the ruins and were learning about everyday life during biblical times.

The coin dates to a little more than a decade before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 AD, and was found in rubble material outside the ruins of the 1st Century Jewish villas the team has been excavating.

In 2010, William Saturno of Boston University and colleagues were excavating Mayan ruins at Xultún in Guatemala.

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Arab polytheism, the dominant form of religion in pre ASHKELON, Israel, July 24 — Harvard University archeologists excavating Canaanite ruins surrounding the site of the ancient port city of

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.

Located in the lovely Cayo District of Western Belize close to the Guatemalan border, the Xunantunich ruins are accessible only by a hand - operated ferry river crossing and are almost completely excavated.

Other Roman remains include the ruins of the Grotte del Pilato, caves excavated along the shores of the port town by the Romans to house fish hatcheries to feed the local populace.

A number of significant structures have been excavated and can be explored by visitors including the Ball Court, Jaguar Temple and Lag Temple where a 125 foot climb to the top is rewarded with an incredible panoramic view of the ruins and New River Lagoon.

Then spend the night among the enchanting ruins of Machu Picchu, excavated by Hiram Bingham with funding from National Geographic more than a century ago.

Many of the Tikal ruins remain unexplored; who knows what secrets are left to be excavated, and what else we will learn about this ancient and amazing Mayan culture of Guatemala.

Ancient leftovers: Archaeologists have excavated spouted pots from the Maya ruins of Colha, Belize, that contained chocolate residue dating to circa 600 B.C.

You will see the three stages of the excavation of this late Inca - town: the excavated buildings and constructions; the ruins currently in the process of excavation and finally the unexplored areas and terraces with the secrets they may hold of this last refuge of the dying Inca empire.

Tikal: The Tikal ruins in the Petén district of Guatemala are, in excavated area at least, larger and more spectacular than any Maya site in Belize.

There are 8 main sites of the Mayan ruins that are still standing today, namely: Tikal — a c. 700 AD city in Guatemala Caracol — another city except from c. 500 AD and situated in Belize Chichén Itzá — a monument and center for pilgrimage located in Mexico Tulum — a coastal Mayan site present until c. 1200 AD Kabah — a ruin with elaborate and intricate carvings on the wall which was used from c. 800 AD to c. 900 AD Palenque — another site located in Mexico thought to be magical, present from c. 600 AD to c. 700 AD Coba — a partially excavated network of roads and pyramids in Yucatan, Mexico Uxmal — the most extravagant and complex of all eight Mayan sites, built shortly before c. 1000 AD.

Many ruins exist in the jungles of Belize, the Yucatan Peninsula and the Peten, which until today have not yet been excavated to reveal their history.

Many Mayan ruins that have been archeologically explored and excavated have not yet had their glyphs translated.

It's been hotter than 2 goats in a habañero patch and dustier than excavating Maya ruins.

During this challenging 9 - day adventure you'll visit the ruins of Choquequirao — one of the most remote Inca ruins in the Peruvian Andes, often referred to as Machu Picchu's sister, with large portions of the site yet to be excavated.

Many of the ruins have been consumed by the jungle, so venturing from one excavated site to another will usually involve light hiking through patches of large trees.

As Maruba is very centrally located some tours will go offsite to visit the nearby excavated Mayan Village or the famous ruins of Lamanai.

Only a small portion of Coba has been excavated and many of the structures remain hidden in the jungle, overgrown with jungle vegetation, while the ruins that have been partially excavated continue to have trees and plants growing through cracks in the rocks.

Pathway «s plot, set in 1936, revolves around Nazis expanding throughout Europe in the Middle East as the Germans excavate ancient ruins for artifacts and conduct occult rituals.

In The Guardian, Jason Farago referred to Mr. Sala's «unrivaled capacity to excavate the sullied dreams of Modernism, and to imagine a future on the ruins of the recent past.»

Lorenzo Benedetti, curator of Manders» Dutch Pavilion presentation, has written that for Manders «the past is buried, like a ruin, and the artist is the archeologist who slowly and carefully excavates the artworks.»

Slightly OT, but I just had an enlightening discussion with someone who swears the MWP never happened, and those Viking ruins being excavated are actually in Newfoundland, * not * Greenland, and my knowledge of geography is obviously deficient.

Evans and his team now plan on further exploring the city's ruins to understand what exactly happened during its collapse: «We're going now and excavating [the sites] on the ground, and trying to get a grip on when they happened — whether they were a precursor of the decline, a symptom or the system gradually falling into ruin after they left.»