Sentences with phrase «on ancient walls»

Some experts argue this mighty mini's roots trace back to artwork on ancient walls.

The research is preliminary and not yet published in a peer - reviewed journal, and Viitanen said there is much more work to do to map the social networks revealed on the ancient walls.

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Forget the equipment, what about the «ancient» drawings and etchings found on cave walls dated only 3,500 YEARS AGO!.

On the interior walls of these burial places were carved religious texts as well as many other things that tell of the life and thought of the ancient Egyptians.

Since one - hundred - foot spans were difficult for the ancients to roof over (long enough timbers being rare and expensive), the builders raised a narrower set of walls on colonnades, dividing the floor into a central nave under the raised roof and two side aisles under shed roofs.

On the wall was a chart of the farm fields, each with an ancient name.

This ancient precursor of tennis is played indoors on a court resembling a Medieval street, complete with sloping roofs, openings (like windows) in the walls and the two sides of the court are not the same shape.

Crowds of well - wishers cheered Britain's Prince Harry as he made an impromptu walkabout outside the ancient walls of Windsor Castle on the eve of his wedding to U.S. actress Meghan Markle.

We enter an alcove, about the size of a squash court, and Cockell points out a honeycomb - like pattern on the rock salt walls, a possible haven for ancient forms of life.

Microscopic analysis of the ancient wall opened Finkelstein's eyes, and by 1990 he hoped to shine the same scientific light on the biggest of the big questions: the enduring mystery of the reigns of David and Solomon.

«[People] have even started using the stones from the ancient ruins on Lelu Island to build [sea] walls.

Ancient cave bears, which roamed from the United Kingdom to Russia for hundreds of thousands of years, made a strong impression on Stone Age artists, who included them in a 30,000 - year - old gallery of animals lining the walls of Chauvet cave in modern France.

They report on their work studying ancient glass and rock defense walls in a paper published in the May issue of American Ceramic Society Bulletin.

They piled boulders left by ancient glaciers into two large rings, put black amphibolite rocks on top, layered the wall with charcoal and burned it.

Wherever possible, farmers built dams and canals to irrigate cropland; they also built terraced stone walls on hillsides to make new fields; and they drained the swamps outside Tenochtitlán to create raised fields (chinampas), one of the most highly productive agricultural systems of the ancient world.

As she pondered the nature of this little horse, Louise suddenly remembered seeing, on the walls of the ancient palace in Persepolis, relief carvings of a horse that looked very much like the one she had just found.

Ancient river gravels embedded in travertine high on the canyon walls can be dated to reveal «the time when the river was at that old elevation.»

That the ancient artists who made outlines of their hands on cave walls (23 June, p 10) were communicating something...

Ancient Pompeii's political elite vied for advertising space on the «private walls» of wealthy citizens

Archaeologists hope that a funding and conservation boost can halt wall collapses and other erosion occurring at the ancient city on Italy's Neopolitan coast

«The room was basically a work space for an ancient scribe and astronomer who made notations on the wall next to him,» says David Stuart of the University of Texas at Austin, who coauthored a paper describing the find in May.

But the project's Jerusalem site is on and adjacent to the ancient Muslim cemetery of Mamilla, located just to the west of the ancient city's walls.

Noticeably absent from this ancient cluster were several breeds long regarded as the most ancient by breeders, including the Pharaoh Hound and the Ibizan Hound — depicted on Egyptian tomb walls.

An ancient Ayurvedic rehydration remedy that will help flush the lymph on the outside of the intestinal wall and improve your body's natural ability to filter waste and digest is to sip plain, hot boiled water every 10 - 15 minutes (in addition to your regular water intake).

Trekking through the Amazonian jungle, I stumbled across an ancient training plan, written in hieroglyphics on the wall of an temple from a long lost civilization.

One of the ancient diagrams painted on a wall in Wat Pho - showing how to massage «sen lines» or energy lines

Set on three distinct maps; an Ancient Roman gladiator arena of The IX, the sinking Titanic in Voyage of Despair, and a remake of past Zombies maps in Blood of the Dead — featuring the original Zombies mode cast — there are plans to offer more variety in the off - the - wall game mode.

The first of the Gajalaka Doodles you can find in the Ancient Forest is located in Area 5, on some rocks on the west wall.

Paintings and prints frequently carry particular meaning within Petzold's films, as examples of the ancient tradition of ekphrasis, probably none more so than in Phoenix's immediate predecessor Barbara (2012) with its conspicuous Rembrandt print, but likewise in much earlier works like Die Beischlafdiebin (The Sex Thief, 1998) with a Gerard Richter on the wall — another artist conspicuously engaged with multiple forms of peculiarly German afterness.4

They stood sentry, an impenetrable green wall on either side of the road, ancient and knowing, looking down.

Archeological excavations of ancient Egyptian tombs revealed images of Salukis depicted on the walls, and mummified remains of these dogs were also discovered.

Greyhounds of all sizes have been depicted on walls and in tombs since ancient times.

The history of this breed begins with drawings on the walls of ancient caves in southern Africa.

Capture the late afternoon light on ancient clay walls during a photo shoot in the hilltop village of Aït Ben Haddou.

• Cape Town: Savor Constantia, a wine region within city limits • Dubai: Go over-the-top with a stay at One & Only The Palm resort • Egypt: Take a Nile cruise • Fez, Morocco: Step back in time in the ancient walled medina • Jerusalem: Visit the Holocaust museum at Yad Vashem • Kenya: Stay among the Masai at Campi Ya Kanzi • Knysna, South Africa: Eat oysters at 34 South restaurant • Namibia: Go on a desert safari along the Skeleton Coast • Oman: Stay at the Six Senses Zighy Bay • Petra, Jordan: Marvel at the ancient hard - carved site • Serengeti: Learn to take wildlife photography on safari • Seychelles: Lounge on Anse Source d'Argent beach

During your guided visit, admire the paintings that remain on the walls, and look for signs of the early fast - food restaurants beloved by ancient Romans.On the quest for amazing scenery, combined with history and spirituality, you'll visit Montecassino sanctuary.

Popular with visitors are the ruins of the ancient temple at Kamari and the remains of dwellings on the sea bed, the Cyclopean wall with traces of an Acropolis on the Hill of Ai Giorgis, the ancient quarry at Petrokopio and the shrine to Poseidon at Agia Triada.

• Next door to Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale Sanctuary Visitor Center • Oceanfront pool • Ancient Hawaiian fish pond (rock - wall - protected beach right in front of property for calm ocean lagoon swimming) • Monsoon Indian oceanfront restaurant and bar on ground floor • Access to large private rooftop deck with amazing ocean and Haleakala views, propane barbecues, and picnic tables • Shuffle board courts and equipment • Free Parking • Walk along unobstructed white sand beach for miles

And if you like your entertainment more historic still, then you'll be interested to hear that Newcastle was founded over 2000 years ago, and is pretty close to Hadrian's Wall - excursions are organised there on a daily basis by the tourist board if you don't have a car, or you can visit Segedunum, which is an ancient tower at the beginning of the wWall - excursions are organised there on a daily basis by the tourist board if you don't have a car, or you can visit Segedunum, which is an ancient tower at the beginning of the wallwall.

This city on the Rhine River was founded by the Romans in 38 B.C., and parts of the ancient Roman wall and aqueduct are still evident.

Explore more of Hungary and follow our guide out of bustling Budapest to the picturesque medieval town of Szentendre, set on the banks of the Danube and awash with ancient walls, cobbled streets and beautiful vistas.

Resting on a large estate in a beautiful walled garden Villa Belong Dua features a series of five pavilions — positioned in accordance with ancient cosmology, which house the villa's charming living areas, along with stunning swimming pool.

Incredible dining choices at the Hassler hotel include the Michelin - starred Imàgo on the 6th floor, the beautifully stylish Salone Eva, and Palm Court restaurant which features ancient stone walls.

As in ancient times one enters the house through a little shop on the ground floor where food stored in barrels was sold by the yard — the yard stick can still be seen on the wall.

Spot the elusive tiger on a thrilling game drive in one of Africa's vast national parks, enjoy exciting excursions to the extraordinary Great Wall, Forbidden City and Terracotta Warriors in China, or explore Japan's magnificent capital, Tokyo, where flashing neon lights and skyscrapers sit alongside stunning shrines and ancient temples.

Decorated with ancient Balis story photograph on the wall creates a real Bali ambiance.

Enjoy the relaxing experience of floating through a cave on a large inner tube or exploring one of the caves the ancient Maya utilized as ceremonial centers, where they left their artifacts and way of life etched into the walls and floors.

The most spectacular of Cozumel's Mayan ruins are found on the Mexican mainland at Tulum, an ancient city surrounded by a 16 - foot - high, 25 - foot - thick wall.

In this small valley is a carved stone gateway, ancient disused bathing places (the king's on the left, the queen's on the right), and three meditation niches hewn out of the rock face, with slanting roofs and carvings decorating the wall above.

As Sousse is one of Tunisia's oldest cities, there are countless historical attractions to visit on your stay, with most of them concentrated within the ancient walls of the medina.