Sentences with phrase «monumental city structures»

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The discovery is important for reasons beyond the city's age — it throws into question many assumptions on which a great deal of archaeological work is based, because the inhabitants of Caral built a social and political structure, not to mention monumental architecture, without the trappings of writing, metallurgy, or ceramics.

We start our cruise in the great city of Split, with an abundance of Roman architecture and the monumental palace of the Roman emperor Diocletian at its heart, possibly one of the greatest remaining Roman structures.

For four years Ortega Ayala has been visiting this derelict territory to obtain footage for a film that seeks to resurface (through first hand accounts of witnesses) an unprecedented event in our history where man - made technology went wrong and rendered uninhabitable a vast area that includes entire cities and monumental structures.