Sentences with phrase «mausoleum built»

Then continue your walk around the old city with a visit of Saadian Tombs, not long time discovered, a 16th century Mausoleum built as a resting place the tombs of thirteen Saadian sultans.

Visit Fatehpur Sikri — the old deserted Mughal city where you explore Panch Mahal, Jodha Bai's Palace, Buland Darwaza etc. the next visit of the day is to the Taj Mahal — a white - marble mausoleum built by Emperor Shah Jahan in the memory of his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal followed by the Agra Fort - a Mughal architecture masterpiece.

The team picked their design from the walls of the Kharraqan towers, two mausoleums built in 1067 and 1093 in the plains in northern Iran.

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It contained a number of remarkable constructions such as Augustus's Mausoleum (an enormous building, some forty metres high, topped with a bronze colossus of Augustus), the beautiful and ornate Ara Pacis, and a giant sundial (an obelisk taken from Egypt, signifying the defeat of Antony and Cleopatra which began his rule) erected in such a way as to demonstrate the cosmological significance of Augustus's birth (its shadow bisected the Ara Pacis on his birthday).

It was the second time in the past two weeks that Ansar Dine, a militant group that seeks to impose strict Sharia law, has attacked the site's 16 mausoleums, built from mud and wood in the 15th century.

While some of the buildings don't exist anymore, more famous structures, like Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow, remain as a reminder of construction art.

An Anglo - Saxon building, possibly a royal mausoleum, was cut down and partially ruined, before being turned into a burial chamber.

The site was left unguarded, and local villagers built small brick mausoleums over most of the ancient cemetery.

Roughly 700,000 craftsmen and laborers built Emperor Qin Shihuang's palatial mausoleum in east - central China between 247 B.C. and 210 B.C..

Echoing the original Tyrell ziggurat, his mausoleum - like is like a huge billionaire health spa, where huge dark rooms shimmer with watery reflections and amber light; in the lobby, a slash of that light rhymes with the murkier canyons of light that cut through the crammed slabs of building in the city outside.

I know it sounds odd to think of Egypt, an African country, as cold but trust me, in houses built to stay cool with no heating systems and plenty of marble and ceramic flooring, you feel as if you are living in an icy mausoleum during the winter.

The accompanying mausoleum is built of carrera marble with walls that are four feet thick.

Originally planned as a church that mimics the general design of the Pantheon in Rome, literally the house of «many Gods», this building is now a mausoleum where all notable French citizens will find their last resting place.

Since the city is built on a swamp, the deceased have to be buried above ground here in elaborate stone crypts and mausoleums.

«The Living King», as is the English translation, is a collection of mausoleums and other ritual buildings dating as far back as the 9th century.

Day 7 At leisure or join an optional excursion of Bodrum, the castle built by the Knights Hospitaller, Mausolus Mausoleum, Myndos Gate and Hellenic theatre (# 80).

The façade of this huge mausoleum, which was built using marble and stone, was modelled upon the famous Pantheon in Rome — a temple which was built in the first century AD as a place for worshipping the city's ancient Gods.

A sparkly arrival to Washington DC's sober National Mall, David Adjaye's new museum building stands like a startling golden crown, erupting from the lawn between the slender obelisk of the Washington monument and the blank stone mausoleum of the National Museum of American History.

[19] The 20 plaster models are the work of Jean - Pierre Fouquet of Paris and were acquired by Soane in 1834 for # 100, [44] these include: Erechtheion, Tower of the Winds, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Pantheon, Rome, Temple of Vesta, Tivoli, Temple of Antoninus and Faustina and the Temple of Portunus, the buildings are depicted as reconstructions not in their current ruined state.

The mausoleum is the epitome of Indian Islamic architecture, and it was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in honor of his wife, Mumtaz Mahal.

Foreman and General Foreman over Carpenters for Generator Change Out and managed work, time schedule, and safety standards for: Chipping Platform Erection and Scaffolding, Scaffolding for New Generators Prep in Rub Buildings, Mausoleum Scaffolds, All Tendon Scaffolds, Scaffolds on top of Reactor Dome, All Stair Towers, All Balance of Plant Scaffolds, All Crane Platforms, Scaffold Tower for Hydro Blasting hole in Reactor Wall, All Concrete Form Work to fill hole in Containment Wall, Concrete Form Mock - up, and material needed in and out of radiological Protected Area.