Characters explore Ancient ruins and strange post-apocalyptic societies to gain knowledge of the Ancients and social status for themselves.

Ancient ruins in Byblos, Berytus ( Beirut ), Sidon, Sarepta ( Sarafand ), and Tyre show a civilized nation, with urban centres and sophisticated arts.

Ancient ruins speak volumes of their former wholeness.

Ancient kingdoms located in Jordan, such as the Roman-era Nabatean kingdom, which had its capital in Petra, left particularly dramatic ruins popular with tourists and film crews.

Ancient Greek architecture is best known from its temples, many of which are found throughout the region, mostly as ruins but many substantially intact.

Ancient Rome | Roman ruins at MichaelerplatzClose ties with other Celtic peoples continued through the ages.

The ruins of the Ancient Egyptian city of Bubastis are located 3 km southeast of town.

Most of the area of Ancient Messene contains the ruins of the large classical city-state of Messene refounded by Epaminondas in 369 BC, after the battle of Leuctra and the first Theban invasion of the Peloponnese.

This new Messene, today's Ancient Messene, was constructed over the ruins of Ithome, an ancient city originally of Achaean Greeks, destroyed previously by the Spartans and abandoned for some time.

Ancient Pueblo Peoples ruins at Chaco Culture National Historical Park | Chaco Canyon

Ancient ruins of Cumae

The abbey remains are a Scheduled Ancient Monument ( No. WT253 ), and parts of the abbey complex, Abbot Reginald's Wall ( registered monument ) and the ruins of Abbot Chryton's Wall ( Grade II ), are English Heritage listed buildings.

But by far the most remarkable monument remaining at Taormina is the Ancient theatre, which is one of the most celebrated ruins in Sicily, on account both of its remarkable preservation and its beautiful location.

Plaka was developed mostly around the ruins of Ancient Agora of Athens in an area that has been continuously inhabited since antiquity.

The ruins have been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building, and they are a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Ancient ruins in Vravrona

The main palace at Ebla was also found to contain " antiques " dating from Ancient Egypt with the names of pharaohs Khafra and Pepi I. Handicrafts may also have been a major export: exquisite artifacts have been recovered from the ruins, including wood furniture inlaid with mother-of-pearl and composite statues created from different colored stones.

The ruins of Ancient Thebes ( Boeotia ) | ancient Theban citadel of Cadmea

The following year Catherwood published Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan, with 25 color lithographs from watercolors he made at various ruins.

Similar subterranean rooms are found among ruins in the American southwest, indicating ritual or cultural use by the ancient peoples of the region including the Ancient Pueblo Peoples, the Mogollon and the Hohokam.

The area contains the Musée Matisse and the ruins of Cemenelum, capital of the Ancient Roman province Alpes Maritimae on the Ligurian coast.

The ruins are now a grade I listed building, and a Scheduled Ancient Monument and are open as a visitor attraction.

The ruins of the great church, along with the Lady Chapel, are grade I listed buildings, and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

< http :// www. britannica. com / EBchecked / topic / 400920 / myth >.</ ref > Ancient folk lore contained tales of impressive ruins as well as vague details of their destruction.

The site of the Abbey is a Scheduled Ancient Monument although apart from the church and the gatehouse and the restored ruins of the cloister very little remains visible.

Structures and other evidence of Ancient Pueblo culture has been found extending east onto the American Great Plains, in areas near the Cimarron and Pecos rivers and in the Galisteo Basin.

" The Covered Hall ") This abode is somewhat like Hades from Ancient Greek religion: there, something not unlike the Asphodel Meadows can be found, and people who have neither excelled in that which is good nor excelled in that which is bad can expect to go there after they die and be reunited with their loved ones.

Lost and found advertising on papyrus was common in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.

* c. 3000 BC: Ancient backgammon set, found in the Burnt City in Iran.

Ancient Greek bronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer, 3rd-2nd century BC, found in Alexandria, Egypt.

Also a historical collection of Ancient Christian frescoes can be found in the Churches of Goreme Turkey.

While the term grimoire is originally European, and many Europeans throughout history, particularly ceremonial magicians and cunning folk, have made use of grimoires, the historian Owen Davies noted that similar such books can be found all across the world, ranging from Jamaica to Sumatra, and he also noted that the first such grimoires could be found not in Europe but in the Ancient Near East.

Lovecraft's poetry is collected in The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft ( Night Shade Books, 2001 ), while much of his juvenilia, various essays on philosophical, political and literary topics, antiquarian travelogues, and other things, can be found in Miscellaneous Writings ( Arkham House, 1989 ).

Similar etymologies are found in Ancient Greek Ἀνατολή ( cf.

Nails go back at least to Ancient Egypt — bronze nails found in Egypt have been dated 3400 BC.

In the case of a frog croaking, the spelling may vary because different frog species around the world make different sounds: Ancient Greek brekekekex koax koax ( only in Aristophanes ' comic play The Frogs ) for probably marsh frogs ; English ribbit for species of frog found in North America ; English verb " croak " for the common frog.

Inscriptions written by the Philistines have not yet been found or conclusively identified ; however, their early history is known to scholars from inscriptions in other ancient documents, such as Ancient Egyptian texts.

Ancient pyramidical structures, tombs, ruined cities and stone walls such as the Wargaade Wall found in Somalia are evidence of an ancient sophisticated civilization that once thrived in the Somali peninsula.

Cinnamon is native to Sri Lanka and has been found in Ancient Egypt as early as 1500 BC, suggesting early trade between Egypt and the island's inhabitants.

Ancient references to the dilemma are found in the writings of classical philosophers.

A few references to men changing into wolves are found in Ancient Greek literature and mythology.

* Ancient India: The Buddha and Mahavira found Buddhism and Jainism

From Ancient Egypt seals in the form of signet-rings of kings have been found.

* September – The first known Druid revival ceremony is held by John Toland at Primrose Hill, in London, at the Autumnal Equinox, to found the Mother Grove, what is later to become the Ancient Order of Druids ( AOD ).

Dual number existed in Proto-Indo-European, persisted in many of the now extinct ancient Indo-European languages that descended from it — Sanskrit, Ancient Greek and Gothic for example — and can still be found in a few modern Indo-European languages such as Slovene.

: Mrs Barbauld told me that the only faults she found with the Ancient Mariner were — that it was improbable and had no moral.

Ancient Precambrian basalts are usually only found in fold and thrust belts, and are often heavily metamorphosed.

The origins of choral music are found in traditional music, as singing in big groups is extremely widely spread in traditional cultures ( both singing in one part, or in unison, like in Ancient Greece, as well as singing in parts, or in harmony, like in contemporary European choral music ).