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

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.

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In the Ancient Macedonian language ( pella ) means stone, and some toponyms are derived from this word: ( Pella: capital of Ancient Macedonia ), ( Pellini-Pallini ).

The connection with Dorians and their initiation festival apellai is reinforced by the month Apellaios in northwest Greek calendars, but it can explain only the Doric type of the name, which is connected with the Ancient Macedonian word " pella " ( Pella ), stone.

However, Ancient Egyptian is highly divergent from Proto-Afroasiatic ( Trombetti 1905: 1 – 2 ), and considerable time must have elapsed in between them.

Amphibian is derived from the Ancient Greek term ἀμφίβιος ( amphíbios ), which means " both kinds of life ", amphi meaning " of both kinds " and bio meaning " life ".

The Ancient Greek word for seaweed was φῦκος ( fūkos or phykos ), which could mean either the seaweed ( probably red algae ) or a red dye derived from it.

The name actinium originates from the Ancient Greek aktis, aktinos ( ακτίς, ακτίνος ), meaning beam or ray.

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

Lysander and the young Agesilaus came to maintain an intimate relation ( see Pederasty in Ancient Greece ), as was common of the period.

Variants of the name include: Alfonso ( Italian and Spanish ), Alfons ( Catalan, Dutch, German, Polish and Scandinavian ), Afonso ( Portuguese and Galician ), Affonso ( Ancient Portuguese ), Alphonse, Alfonse ( Italian, French and English ), Αλφόνσος Alphonsos ( Greek ), Alphonsus ( Latin ), Alphons ( Dutch ), Alfonsu in ( Leonese ), Alfonsas ( Lithuanian ).

* Andron, Cosmin ( 2008 ), " Ammonios of Alexandria ", The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists, eds.

* Reale, G., ( 1990 ), A History of Ancient Philosophy IV: The Schools of the Imperial Age, SUNY Press, pp. 297 – 303.

There may also be a connection with the Roman god of war Mars, via hypothetical Proto-Indo-European * M ̥ rēs ; compare Ancient Greek μάρναμαι ( marnamai ), " to fight, to battle ", or Punjabi maarna ( to kill, to hit ).

Examples of armies equipping their troops in this fashion were the Aztecs ( 16th century DC ), and the hoplites in Ancient Greece.

Lagopus is derived from Ancient Greek lago ( λαγως ), meaning " hare ", + pous ( πους ), " foot " and refers to the hair on its feet.

The English name " accusative ( case )" is an Anglicisation of the Latin accūsātīvus ( cāsus ), which was translated from Ancient Greek.

The finished structure of the mauloseum was considered to be such an aesthetic triumph that Antipater of Sidon identified it as one of his Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

He is best known for the monumental shrine, the Mausoleum of Mausolus, erected for him by order of his sister and widow Artemisia ; Antipater of Sidon listed the Mausoleum as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Olympia is also known for the gigantic ivory and gold statue of Zeus that used to stand there, sculpted by Pheidias, which was named one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Antipater of Sidon.

* Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist and Soldier of Arete: Ancient Greece, and Soldier of Sidon: Ancient Egypt

She induced the most eminent Greek rhetoricians to proclaim his praise in their oratory ; and to perpetuate his memory she built at Halicarnassus a celebrated majestic monument, listed by Antipater of Sidon as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and whose name subsequently became the generic term for any splendid sepulchral monument ( mausoleum, Greek: μαυσωλεῖον ).

Their origin is obscure ; they could originally be Babylonian, Ancient Egyptian, Magian, Persian or Hermetic, but by the time of Dorotheus of Sidon in the first century A. D. ( and probably earlier ) they had become an established tenet of Hellenistic astrological practice.