The inhabitants of the palace " had their loins covered with gold-embroidered cloth and silk, wore poniards with golden hilts, ornamented with pearls and precious stones, and had many rings on their fingers ".

An ornamented golden Minoan labrysLabrys (, ) is the term for a symmetrical doubleheaded axe originally from Crete in Greece, one of the oldest symbols of Greek civilization ; to the Romans, it was known as a bipennis.

The four golden arches of the Crown are ornamented with gold and red enamelled oak leaves, apparently of French workmanship.

It is ornamented with six small, red crosses distributed about the shoulders, breast and back, and is fixed in place by three golden pins, symbolic of the nails with which Christ was crucified.

Severn's stele is ornamented with a Palette ( painting ) | palette in low relief, and Keats ' with a lyre.

File: Ince minare entrance. jpg | The highly ornamented stone façade of the entrance of the İnce Minareli Medrese.

Dives, carefully repaired huts, and nicely painted and ornamented cottages were jumbled together cheek by jowl with little distinction.

To distinguish abbots from bishops, it was ordained that their mitre should be made of less costly materials, and should not be ornamented with gold, a rule which was soon entirely disregarded, and that the crook of their pastoral staff ( the crosier ) should turn inwards instead of outwards, indicating that their jurisdiction was limited to their own house.

These works mirrored the frolicsome, artificial and ornamented decadence of the French aristocracy of the time.

Vases of all kinds, carved in marble or other stones, cast or beaten in metals or fashioned in clay, the latter in enormous number and variety, richly ornamented with coloured schemes, and sometimes bearing moulded decoration.

* Weapons, tools and implements ; In stone, clay and bronze, and at the last iron, sometimes richly ornamented or inlaid.

It was a belt generally worn over the shoulder, passing obliquely down to the side, typically made of leather, often ornamented with precious stones, metals or both.

Constantine divided the expanded city, like Rome, into 14 regions, and ornamented it with public works worthy of an imperial metropolis.

This was designed in the form of an equal-armed cross with five domes, and ornamented with beautiful mosaics.

The weak points of traditional styles had been under attack by progressive theorists since the mid-nineteenth century, primarily for the contradictions of hiding modern construction technology with a facade of ornamented traditional styles.

In its day the machete and the skills related to it were seen as a token of manliness, and it was carried, sword-like, in ornamented sheaths made out of leather or in sashes around the waist.

The Assyrian original may have been plastered and ornamented.

It forms a yoke about the neck, breast and shoulders and has two pendants hanging down in front and behind, and is ornamented with six crosses.

Guards were either semicircular or straight, but always highly ornamented with geometrical patterns.

Illustration from The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin, showing the Tufted Coquette Lophornis ornatus: female on left, ornamented male on right.

Illustration from The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin showing the Tufted Coquette Lophornis ornatus, female on left, ornamented male on right.

The spandrel of doors is sometimes ornamented in the Decorated period, but seldom forms part of the composition of the doorway itself, being generally over the label.

Uaithne, also known as " the Four Angled Music ", was a richly ornamented magic harp made of oak which, when the Dagda played it, put the seasons in their correct order ; other accounts tell of it being used to command the order of battle.

" When man or woman dies from sickness, the body is left in the cave or rock shelter where the death took place, the body is not washed or dressed or ornamented in any way, but is generally allowed to be in the natural supine position and is covered with leaves and branches.

The ceremonial mace is a short, richly ornamented staff often made of silver, the upper part of which is furnished with a knob or other head-piece and decorated with a coat of arms.

Its height is now: the cylindrical portion, the pyramid The base, in diameter, is ornamented with 60 engaged Ionic columns.

In India the style was used originally for wooden construction, but later the technique was adopted for stone structures for decorated load-bearing and purely ornamented non-structural purposes.

The body is divided into a main trunk or abdomen and a somewhat swollen proboscis region ornamented with longitudinal ridges.

Numerous precious objects were found, including a richly ornamented sword, a torse-like bracelet, jewels of gold and garnet cloisonné, gold coins, a gold bull's head and a ring with the inscription (" of Childeric the king "), which identified the tomb.

Mankind, as a result, attains previously undreamed of levels of civilization and culture, a golden age which the Overlords, a very evident symbol of science, have helped produce by introducing reason and the scientific method into human activities.

The golden age of Khmer civilization, however, was the period from the 9th to the 13th centuries, when Khmer Empire, which gave Kampuchea, or Cambodia, its name, ruled large territories from its capital in the region of Angkor in western Cambodia.

It was a golden age of Chinese civilization with significant developments in art, literature, particularly poetry, and technology.

From c. 1200 to 1500 CE, the town of Kilwa, on Tanzania's southern coast, was perhaps the wealthiest and most powerful of these towns, presiding over what some scholars consider the " golden age " of Swahili civilization.

The Tang Dynasty, with its capital at Chang ' an ( present-day Xi ' an ), which at the time was the most populous city in the world, is generally regarded as a high point in Chinese civilization — equal to, or surpassing that of, the earlier Han Dynasty — a golden age of cosmopolitan culture.

* Quimbaya airplanes: golden objects founded in Colombia, made by Quimbaya civilization culture, that are supossed to represent modern airplanes.

These two founded the Inca civilization carrying a golden staff, called ‘ tapac-yauri ’.

Under the reign of the Han Dynasty ( 206 BC to 220 AD ), which brought China to its first golden age, Jiangsu was a relative backwater, far removed from the centers of civilization in the North China Plain.

He argues that for civilizations to be born, the challenge must be a golden mean ; that excessive challenge will crush the civilization, and too little challenge will cause it to stagnate.

A golden belt found in Butuan Archeological Digs-a testimony of the wealth and power of the precolonial civilization in Butuan.

In terms of cultural accomplishments and political power, this was the golden age of Khmer civilization.

" Liu Shipei also presented these early times as the golden age of Chinese civilization.

The traditional interpretation of this period was centered around the idea of decadence from a ' golden age ', classical civilization, after the famous work of Edward Gibbon The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire ( 1779 ).

As if emboldened by the doctor's diagnosis, Selina reveals her final prophecy — that Mars ' once thriving civilization was destroyed by an evil, golden three-headed dragon named King Ghidorah, and furthermore that Ghidorah himself has already arrived on Earth.

The country recovered under the subsequent Pallava dynasty and its civilization attained a golden age under the later Cholas and the Pandyas.

The Platonians indicate that they had spent time on Earth during the golden age of the Greek civilization and modeled their ways after it.

Through a holographic message in a capsule found by researchers, the GUTS gets knowledge about a golden pyramid built by an ancient civilization.

There, Pelor dwells with Erathis, goddess of civilization, in the golden palace of Aurosion.