At that point, scientists began to reconsider their pre-mission hypothesis that Descartes had been the setting of ancient volcanic activity, as the two astronauts had yet to find any volcanic material.

At Athens, the traveller Pausanias was informed in the second-century CE that the cult of Aphrodite Urania above the Kerameikos was so ancient that it had been established by Aegeus, whose sisters were barren, and he still childless himself.

At one time the Kush of Nubia ruled ancient Egypt.

At times under some other dynasties in ancient China, the month with the winter solstice was the 12th or the 1st month.

At the First Council of Nicaea, 325, he signed the Confession, but only after a long and desperate opposition in which he " subscribe with hand only, not heart " according to ancient sources.

At the heart of the question was the ancient right of the Holy Roman Emperor to name the pope as well as bishops and priests.

At low tide it is possible to walk across the sands following an ancient route known as Pilgrims ' Way.

At the time of the fall of the ancient Siam capital of Ayutthaya in 1767, the invading Burmese troops rounded up thousands of Thais and took them to Burma as prisoners.

At the beginning of the 20th century, archaeologist Arthur Evans began excavating Knossos, an ancient city on the island of Crete.

At Nazareth there lived various vendors of antiquities who got ancient material from several places .” C. Kopp is more definite: " It must be accepted with certainty that Ordinance of Caesar … was brought to the Nazareth market by outside merchants.

It became the second most important oracle in ancient Greece, which later was dedicated to Zeus and to Heracles during the classical period of Greece. At Dodona Zeus was worshipped as Zeus Naios or Naos ( god of springs Naiads, from a spring which existed under the oak ), and Zeus Bouleos ( cancellor ).

At that late date the ancient authors were attempting to explain the provenance of the name.

At first the Eastern Roman Emperor Michael II showed himself tolerant towards the image-worshippers, and their great champion, Theodore the Studite, wrote to him to exhort him " to unite us Church of Constantinople to the head of the Churches of God, Rome, and through it with the three Patriarchs " and to refer any doubtful points to the decision of Old Rome in accordance with ancient custom.

At the age of twenty, Sima Qian started a journey throughout the country, visiting ancient monuments, and sought for the graves of the ancient sage kings Yu in Kuaiji Mountain and Shun in Hunan.

At the time of the first settlelement there was still ancient forest, typical of the Harz, on the heights of the Klint, which had first to be cleared, hence the suffix-rode in the town name which means " clearing ".

" At Sais, however, the patron goddess of the ancient cult was Neith, many of whose traits had begun to be attributed to Isis during the Greek occupation.

At a time when most people in Britain still believed in a literal interpretation of Genesis, that the earth was only a few thousand years old and that species did not evolve or become extinct, the find raised questions in scientific and religious circles about what the new science of geology was revealing about ancient life and the history of the earth.

At this time, Irene offered Theodore the leadership of the ancient Stoudios Monastery in Constantinople, which he accepted.

At the same time Xuanzong exalted the ancient Laozi by granting him grand titles, wrote commentary on the Daoist Laozi, set up a school to prepare candidates for examinations on Daoist scriptures, and called upon the Indian monk Vajrabodhi ( 671 – 741 ) to perform Tantric rites to avert a drought in the year 726.

At the climax of the game, the player activates Thoth, an ancient Jjaro AI.

At the end of the game, an ancient Jjaro machine is activated that keeps the W ' rkncacnter locked in the Lh ' owon sun.

At the time of his accession, the royal palaces of France were ornamented with only a scattering of great paintings, and not a single piece of sculpture, either ancient or modern.

At the same time, military campaigns were necessary against the Hungarians, who had rebelled against Habsburg central authority under the name of their ancient liberties.

At a time when self-sale contracts were one of the most direct ways to become a citizen in ancient Rome, Cicero wrote in his De Officiis that

At last they saw Calcutta, largest city of Bengal and the Caravan's destination.

At Berger's direction, the city also intervened in the Hughes bankruptcy case in U. S. District Court in a move preliminary to filing a claim there.

At the coastal side of the city there are indications of an Early Christian basilica with mosaic floors decorated with semi-precious stones.

At the port city of Jaffa ( today part of Tel Aviv ) an outcrop of rocks near the harbour has been associated with the place of Andromeda's chaining and rescue by the traveler Pausanias, the geographer Strabo and the historian of the Jews Josephus.

At the age of twenty-one, he joined the city ’ s Guild of Saint Luke and later became dean.

At his return from Ethiopia, he married Virginie Vincent de Saint Bonnet in 1848, and settled in Hendaye where he purchased 250ha to build his castle, and became the mayor of the city from 1871 to 1875.

At the turn of the 19th century, the city of Alameda took a large chunk of Charles Froling's land away to build a street.

At present Berlin consists of 96 localities, which are commonly made up of several city neighborhoods — called Kiez in the Berlin dialect — representing small residential areas.

At the Fourth Ecumenical Council at Chalcedon in 451, Constantinople was given jurisdiction over three dioceses for the reason that the city was " the residence of the emperor and senate ".

At the " Wailing Wall " in the Old City of Jerusalem, " the Jews assemble every Friday afternoon to bewail the downfall of the holy city, kissing the stone wall and watering it with their tears.

At the same time, the city was ranked Europe's fourth best city for business and fastest improving European city, with growth improved by 17 % per year.

At the time of the battle, Sparta and Athens were the two largest city states.

At certain times, London has had no overall city government and boroughs were the main unit of local government for Londoners ; in Tokyo, they are known as wards or cities, and have city status, but these still form parts of a larger municipal government which has merged with that of the prefecture.

At present, the capital city of N ' Djamena hosts 17 embassies, including those of the United States, Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Sudan, Germany, the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Cameroon, and the European Union.

At the time, the amount is said to have been 80, 000 rations a day, doled out from 117 distribution points around the city.

At this time the Theodosian Walls kept the city impregnable from the land, while a newly discovered incendiary substance known as " Greek Fire " allowed the Byzantine navy to destroy the Arab fleets and keep the city supplied.

At the end, the population which had not been able to escape, was deported to Edirne, Bursa and other Ottoman cities, leaving the city deserted except for the Jews of Balat and the Genoese of Pera.

At its peak, roughly corresponding to the Middle Ages, it was the richest and largest European city, exerting a powerful cultural pull and dominating economic life in the Mediterranean.

At one point, almost every major city in the US had a velodrome or two for track racing events, however since the middle of the 20th century cycling has become a minority sport in the US whilst in Continental Europe it continues to be a major sport, particularly in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy and Spain.

At the center of the city rose the giant ziggurat called Etemenanki, " House of the Frontier Between Heaven and Earth ," which lay next to the Temple of Marduk. He also made The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, for his wife from the mountains so that she would feel at home.

At various periods, and particularly during the Middle Ages, the citadel-having its own fortifications, independent of the city walls-was the last defence of a besieged army, often held after the town had been conquered.