In particular, archaeological digs have revealed the remains of a large Roman villa with a well-preserved mosaic on the playing fields of St Laurence School.

They were herbivorous, and the amazingly well-preserved Messel fossils show that they ate berries, and leaf matter picked up from the forest floor.

The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian law code, dating back to about 1772 BC.

Neolithic farming brought permanent settlements, and the wonderfully well-preserved stone house at Knap of Howar on Papa Westray dating from 3500 BC predates by about 500 years the village of similar houses at Skara Brae on West Mainland, Orkney.

The Church has the oldest roof of any building in Britain, dating from 1120-1150 and has an unusually well-preserved interior.

The well-preserved remains of a Mesolithic settlement dating from 7, 700 BC have been found in its vicinity.

On a hill above the village is a well-preserved 30-m-high, 12th-century round tower and the ruins of a Cathedral and oratory dating from the 13th and 8th centuries respectively.

Tracy-sur-Mer has a well-preserved Gothic church dedicated to Saint Martin dating from the thirteenth century.

This explains the presence of well-preserved castles in Valtenesi dating from the thirteenth century AD, some of which are erected on the ruins of Roman forts.

The town of Pila is site for some well-preserved houses dating back to the Spanish period as well as the old Saint Anthony of Padua Parish Church, the first Antonine church in the Philippines.

Traditionally, Belső (= Inner ) Ferencváros has always been the wealthiest part of the district, with well-preserved apartment blocks dating back to the late 19th century and even earlier.

This stretch, which is now known as Cajon Boulevard, is a short but well-preserved fragment dating back to a rerouting and widening of the highway in the early 1950s.

Opposite the church there are several well-preserved colonial houses dating from the 18th century.

There are many well-preserved half-timbered houses in the old town center, such as the Miners ' Guild Hall dating from 1898, and in the village of Wesseln.

The creek is noted for numerous well-preserved stone arch bridges dating to the 19th century that still traverse the creek, the most famous of which is the Burnside's Bridge in the Antietam National Battlefield.

Hoi An Ancient Town is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a South-East Asian trading port dating from the 15th to the 19th century.

Slunj is famous for its little waterfalls and the well-preserved corn mills ( dating back to the 18th century ) in the picturesque lower part of the town, called Rastoke ( referring to the branching of the rivers ).

The city of Antigua is famous for its well-preserved Spanish Mudéjar-influenced Baroque architecture as well as a number of spectacular ruins of colonial churches dating from the 16th century.

During the 1940s, archaeologist Nikolai Voronin discovered the well-preserved remains of Andrei Bogolyubsky's palace in Bogolyubovo ( dating from 1158 – 65 ).

With a well-preserved urban area elevated to city ( cidade ) status by the Lei n. º 69 / 91, de 16 de Agosto in August 1991, and being home to a number of large and elegant houses, dating back to the 19th century, Cantanhede was granted foral in 1514 by the king Manuel I of Portugal.

Here are the remains of a Roman town, belonging to the 1st and 2nd centuries, extending over an area of some 600 by 500 meters (( 2, 000 by 1, 600 ft ), and consisting of fine buildings along the lagoons, including a large open piscina or basin, surrounded by a double portico, while farther inland are several very large and well-preserved water-reservoirs, supplied by an aqueduct of which traces may still be seen.

Tours are available for the small museum, and the well-preserved ruins of a crossroads civilisation: in addition to the cultures mentioned above, Motian artifacts display Egyptian, Corinthian, Attic, Roman, Punic and Hellenic influences.

In 1784, well-preserved Roman baths were discovered here.

On the Via Appia, to the south-east of the east gate of the town, arc two large and well-preserved tombs of the Roman period, known as le Carceri vecchie and la Conocchia.

There are many archaeological structures which date to the Roman era, when Coimbra was the settlement of Aeminium, such as its well-preserved aqueduct and cryptoporticus.

A well-preserved Roman skeleton of a teenage girl has also been found.

Two other notable and well-preserved ancient Roman structures are the 1st century AD triumphal arch, the Arch of the Sergii and the co-eval temple of Rome and Augustus, built in the 1st century AD built on the forum during the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus.

The house is a well-preserved Roman site for public bathing.

It is particularly known for two well-preserved Roman monuments of the 1st century B. C., known as les Antiques, a mausoleum and a triumphal arch ( the oldest in France ).

Zalău is situated in the area inhabited by " Free Dacians ", away from the historical landmark of Porolissum, a well-preserved Roman Castrum with an imposing fortress, an amphitheater, temples, houses and a customs house in the ancient Roman province of Dacia.

Roman roads radiated from Dorchester, following the tops of the chalk ridges north west to Ilchester near Yeovil, and east to Badbury Rings where it forked to Winchester, Bath and a particularly well-preserved route running north east to Old Sarum near Salisbury, as well as tracks to the many small Roman villages around the county.

The well-preserved theater, built during the Roman Imperial period, is famous for its frises depicting the life of Dionysus, god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine.

The result is an unusually well-preserved Roman city of Hispania Baetica, and unexpected riches in the Museo Arqueologico of Seville, with its famous marble colossus of Trajan.

Centuries later, the Ancient Greeks and Romans referred to the area as Auranitis, and it marked the traditional eastern border of Roman Syria ; this is evidenced by the well-preserved Roman ruins in the cities of Bosra and Shahba.

Because it was far from population centers that would have required cut stone for building and might have quarried it from those deserted in Philippopolis, Shahba today contains well-preserved ruins of the ancient Roman city.

The relatively well-preserved Roman bridge at Nimreh is located in the vicinity.

Upcast banks set well apart, as in this well-preserved section near Branston Booths, Lincolnshire, suggest a canal intended for navigationIt acts as a catchwater drain in parts, intercepting runoff from the higher ground to the west: evidence of seventeenth century improvements to form part of local drainage schemes has been identified, overlying material from the Roman period.

In July 2008, a well-preserved statue of the Roman goddess of love, Venus was found.

Some of the best-known remains from the period include the " peat bog corpses ", among them the well-preserved bodies of two people deliberately strangled: Tollund Man and Haraldskær Woman.

There is a well-preserved steam locomotive from this period housed in the Waterworks Museum at the top of the mountain near the Hely-Hutchinson dam.

This fort is described in Archaeology of late Celtic Britain and Ireland by L R Laing ( 1975 ) as " a well-preserved multivallate hillfort " which probably began its existence in the Iron Age and continued to be used throughout the Dark Ages and into the early Medieval period.

The Lydian language is attested in graffiti and in coin legends from the end of the 8th or the beginning of the 7th century BC down to the 3rd, but well-preserved inscriptions of significant length are presently limited to the 5th and 4th centuries BC, during the period of Persian domination.

The five eastern arches of the nave and their supporting pillars were built at the end of the 12th century, and have well-preserved capitals typical of the period.

The oldest ascertained life form ( well-preserved bacteria older than 3. 46 billion years found in Western Australia ) is from this period.

The glacial period draws its name from Bull Lake in Wyoming in the United States, where well-preserved moraines from this glacial period were first described.