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.

At its height c 2900 BC, Uruk probably had 50, 000 – 80, 000 residents living in 6 km < sup > 2 </ sup > of walled area ; making it the largest city in the world at the time.

At this time ( c 3800 BC ), there were two centers of 20 hectares, Uruk in the south and Nippur in the north surrounded by much smaller 10 hectare settlements.

At the end of the Uruk period there was an archaeologically attested river flood in Shuruppak.

At times during the last interglacial period ( 130, 000 – 70, 000 BC ) Europe had a climate warmer than today's, and early humans may have made their way to Scotland, though archaeologists have found no traces of this.

At the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, apparently the villa of Caesar's father-in-law, the Greek library has been partly preserved in volcanic ash ; archaeologists speculate that a Latin library, kept separate from the Greek one, may await discovery at the site.

At Crow Creek, South Dakota, as noted, archaeologists found a mass grave of ' more than 500 men, women, and children who had been slaughtered, scalped, and mutilated during an attack on their village a century and a half before Columbus's arrival ( ca.

At Bab al-Dhra in Wadi ‘ Araba, archaeologists discovered over 20, 000 shaft tombs with multiple chambers as well as houses of mud-brick containing human bones, pots, jewelry and weapons.

At the start of the programme, Tony Robinson explains, in his " piece to camera ", the reasons for the team's visit to the site, and during the dig he enthusiastically encourages the archaeologists to explain their decisions, discoveries and conclusions.

At the age of 35, Childe became the " only academic prehistorian in a teaching post in Scotland ", and was disliked by many Scottish archaeologists, who viewed him as an outsider who wasn't even a specialist in Scottish prehistory.

Harris said of him :" At a time when European archaeologists were preoccupied with regional sites and sequences, it was he who had the vision, the knowledge and the skill to construct the first prehistory of the whole continent ( 1925 ) and the first ordered and comprehensive account of the ancient Near East ( 1928 ).

At the Tschoga Zanbil ziggurat, archaeologists have found massive reed ropes that ran across the core of the ziggurat structure and tied together the mudbrick mass.

At La Bure, located a few kilometres from Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, archaeologists have found evidence for human habitation going back to around 2000 BC.

At the height of its power, during the 14th century BC, it had outposts centered around its capital, Washukanni, whose location has been determined by archaeologists to be on the headwaters of the Khabur River.

At the time Binford thought the Middle Range Theory may be as far as archaeologists could ever go, but in the mid-1970s some believed that Systems Theory offered the definitive Upper Range Theory.

At the town of Hermopolis, ibises were reared specifically for sacrificial purposes and in the Serapeum at Saqqara, archaeologists found the mummies of one and a half million ibises and hundreds of thousands of falcons.

At its peak, the colony consisted of two settlements, the Eastern and the Western Settlement ( a smaller settlement near the Western Settlement is sometimes considered the Middle Settlement ), with a population of 3, 000-5, 000 ; at least 400 farms have been identified by archaeologists.

At the La Venta archaeological site, archaeologists found what they subsequently named " Offering 4 ".

At this point most of the site was still unexcavated, and in a strongly worded passage Heizer reported that the site was inadequately protected by the Mexican government and a wave of illegal excavations followed the departure of the archaeologists, as well as damage by urban sprawl, the national oil company, Pemex, and the removal of large monuments to museums ( without leaving markers as to their original positions ).

At the height of the construction boom in 1989 over 300 paid archaeologists were working on London sites.

At Lake Mungo, in Western New South Wales, burial sites have been excavated and burial materials, including ochre-painted bones, have been carbon-dated to 62, 000 years, although some archaeologists believe human occupation of Australia dates no further back than 45, 000 years.

At Caoxieshan, a site of the Neolithic Majiabang culture, archaeologists excavated paddy fields.

At these sieidis, sacrifices were made, of animals and objects, and archaeologists have found " Samic metal depots " ( due to the large numbers of metal objects ) dating back to 9th-14th centuries.

At the Eva site, University of Tennessee archaeologists Thomas Lewis and Madeline Kneburg uncovered 180 human burials and artifacts dating to roughly 5200 BC.

At the request of the Jackson Archaeological Society and the National Park Service, in December 1961 the University of Tennessee archaeologists Fred Fisher and Charles McNutt carried out the first major excavation of the Pinson Mounds.

At the same time the ruins of the Colonia Ulpia Traiana, which had been used as a quarry since the Roman settlement was given up, aroused the interest of archaeologists.

At the time of their exploration by archaeologists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, some pyramids were found to contain the remains of bows, quivers of arrows, archers ' thumb rings, horse harnesses, wooden boxes, furniture, pottery, colored glass, metal vessels, and many other artifacts attesting to extensive Meroitic trade with Egypt and the Hellenistic world.

At the close of the 19th Century, a Roman dedication was discovered and examined by Portuguese archaeologists near Évora.