Sentences with phrase «from ancient cities»

From hidden caverns to grassy plains, from ancient cities to dark spaceships, explore freely a vast gaming playground.

I'm talking everything from ancient cities, to rolling tea plantations, amazing beaches, dramatic...

From ancient cities to trendy beach clubs, and thatch - rooted cottages to five - star resorts, the 70 - mile expanse of Mexico's coastline known as the Riviera Maya has it all.

From the ancient cities of Casablanca and Marrakech to the High Atlas Mountains, visit Roman ruins and tour ornate mosques...

Sebastian literally means «person from the ancient city of Sebasta» or «vulnerable».

Warmest greetings from the ancient city of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and congratulations for the Global Magazine 3!

Reprinted from Tasting Rome: Fresh Flavors and Forgotten Recipes from an Ancient City.

From the ancient city and ruins of Sigiriya, the Dambulla Cave Temple, or the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy, there are heaps of history and culture waiting to be discovered.

Embarking on original paths used by the Inca, the Inca Trail leads from the ancient city of Cusco to the great Machu Picchu.

Just not far from the ancient city of Lviv there is a hotel recreation complex Navariya Nova situated, the shrewd choice both for businessmen and tourists.

This is juxtaposed with her work from the ancient city of Angor, Tetrameles Nudiflora of Ta Prohm (Angkor)(2015) which places an emphasis on the beauty and strength of the environment and the notion of «Eternal Life», with imagery depicting trees growing out of ruins of the ancient civilization dating back to the 12th century.

In the afternoon session, you'll learn about Bel and Baalshamin, the two lost temples of the city, funerary portraiture from the ancient city and all about the freestanding sculpture of the city.

This ambitious - sounding exhibition promises a sweeping history of art and culture from the Hellenistic period, but its centrepiece is a group of sculptures from the ancient city of Pergamon in Turkey.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents City and Cosmos: The Arts of Teotihuacan, a groundbreaking exhibition featuring new archaeological discoveries from the ancient city's three... Read more...

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents City and Cosmos: The Arts of Teotihuacan, a groundbreaking exhibition featuring new archaeological discoveries from the ancient city's three main pyramids and major residential compounds.

about The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Announce a Major Exhibition of Artifacts from the Ancient City of Teotihuacan, Many Recently Excavated or Never Before Seen in the U.S.

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CNBC's Eunice Yoon reports from China's ancient and westernmost city Kashgar, which will be a linchpin along the revived trade route under China's «One Belt, One Road» initiative.

On the origins of cities as offshore banking centers - chapter 3 from my Urbanization volume, Urbanization and Land Ownership in the Ancient Near East (ed.

On Wednesday, almost 4,000 ancient artifacts - including objects from the «lost city» of Irisagrig - that had been smuggled into the U.S. were...

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.

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

Why a non-terrestrial culture would name their planet after a figure in ancient Roman mythology is open to question (Romulus and Remus were reared by a she - wolf and went on to found the city of Rome, which also takes its name from Romulus).

The treaties we possess from the Hittites (an ancient Indo - European people who once inhabited what is now the modern state of Turkey) established the way these suzerains interacted with the city - states under their control.

A team from the Italian Archaeological Mission to Luxor unearthed the remains in a funerary complex in the ancient city of Thebes.

We've all heard the ancient, nonsensical hypothesis about the all knowing, all merciful, all loving god, who seems to find joy in destroying cities, killing vast numbers of people by floods, fire from the sky, plagues and pestilence.

Alexanders followers created the Egyptian city of Alexandria where the greatest repository of ancient knowledge was stored in its libraries, from books from all over the world.

The morning news, Monday, September 27, 1976: New York city: An elderly Chinese couple today took the proceeds from the sale of their laundry — some $ 100,000 — ignited it into a small bonfire in their apartment (an ancient ritual investment in immortality for oneself and one's ancestors), then with their daughter leaped from their...

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.

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority.

You need facts from the bible... try Sodom and Gomorra... These ancient cities have been excavated and scientists have found physical evidence of the cities being burned by fire, not just any fire either, the fire started on the roof tops and burned faster than any fire on earth.»

You need facts from the bible... try Sodom and Gomorra, kinda the direction our country is headed in... These ancient cities have been excavated and scientists have found physical evidence of the cities being burned by fire, not just any fire either, the fire started on the roof tops and burned faster than any fire on earth.

Rahab: a prostitute from an ancient conquered city.

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.

New York city: An elderly Chinese couple today took the proceeds from the sale of their laundry — some $ 100,000 — ignited it into a small bonfire in their apartment (an ancient ritual investment in immortality for oneself and one's ancestors), then with their daughter leaped from their window to their death.

From Ethiopia and across the Red Sea to Yemen, where its cultivation blossomed and the early coffee trade centered around the ancient city of Mocha, a major coffee...

Commenting on the packaging, the York Gin Company's Emma Godivala says: «We are very excited to be launching the first gin made in the ancient City of York, and we've had much support from other gin makers and enthusiasts — especially within Yorkshire itself.

It's also common belief there that the best pilaf recipe comes from Uzbekistan, named after the ancient Uzbek city of Bukhara.

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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...

From an anthropologist point of view, this behaviour can trace all the way back to ancient Greece, where discredited generals borrowed foreign armies to attack his own city.

After a review from the city's Independent Budget Office highlighted steadily shrinking funding toward the MTA signal system — the ancient, frequently failing traffic lights of the subway — Cuomo pledged an extra billion in state money toward the $ 32.5 billion MTA capital plan.

From the Aminu Kano International Airport to the palace of the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, down to the venue of the wedding, it was glanour as exotic cars ran after one another in the ancient city of Kano.

A source who bagged not to be named but aware of the tradition of the ancient city informed our correspondent on Wednesday morning that the new king can be installed any moment from now whether the body of the deceased monarch has been committed to the mother earth or not since there is no any recorded rite to be done that states that the deceased monarch must be buried before a new king can be installed.

Oba Odulanan who hailed from Aremo area in the ancient city was an astute administration, a former parliamentarian and an associate of the first and last Prime Minister of Nigeria, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.

According to him, «It gives me even greater pleasure that the throne of Ooni as an institution has assembled a panoply of eminent personalities from all over the world to the ancient city of Ile - Ife, nay our state.

Aregbesola who described the throne of Ooni as institution that has successfully assembled a panoply of eminent personalities from all over the world to the ancient city of Ile - Ife, in Osun State expressed greater pleasure in the fact that the ancient town has tremendously lived up to the legend of the spot where creation began.

The ancient city of Akure, the capital of Ondo State is currently on fire following removal of the name of the governorship candidate of the PDP, Eyitayo Jegede from the final list as released by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

This week, archaeologists from around the world will gather in the ancient city of Erbil to discuss its long history and the suddenly promising future for archaeological research in surrounding Iraqi Kurdistan.

Journey from Peru's Sacred Valley of the Incas to the ancient mountaintop city of Machu Picchu.