A decade later the pilgrim Arculf visited Jericho and found it in ruins, all its " miserable Canaanite " inhabitants now dispersed in shantytowns around the Dead Sea shore.

The city was abandoned at an unknown date, but when the French traveller Pierre Belon visited it in the 16th century, there were nothing but ruins, used by the Turks as a quarry.

The ruins of Petra were an object of curiosity in the Middle Ages and were visited by Sultan Baibars of Egypt towards the end of the 13th century.

In April 2011, Queen Elizabeth II visited St John's College in order to inaugurate a new pathway in First Court, which passes close to the ruins of the Old Chapel.

When Oliver King, Bishop of Bath and Wells 1495 – 1503, visited Bath in 1499 he was shocked to find this famous church in ruins.

The ruins of a first century BC Roman bath house ( known locally as the Torre Llauder ) were recently discovered and can be visited.

Apparently it was in this period ( 1402 – 1404 ) that Brunelleschi and his friend Donatello visited Rome to study the ancient Roman ruins.

In 1474, Giosafat Barbaro visited the ruins of Persepolis, which he incorrectly thought were of Jewish origin.

The ruins can still be visited.

Naples is the most visited city in the area, and the ruins of Pompeii are the most visited sights.

The Americans were led to the ruins by the local Lacandon Maya who still visited the site to pray in the ancient temples.

He also visited the ruins of Babylon ( making many important sketches ), Baghdad, Mosul and Aleppo.

Lysøen was originally owned by Lyse Abbey, the ruins of which still stand and are frequently visited.

In the 1860s, Ephraim George Squier visited the ruins and later published maps and sketches completed during his visit.

Both the ruins and cave were visited and described briefly by John Lloyd Stephens at the start of the 1840s, but no detailed scholarly examination of the ruins was made until that of Eric von Euw in 1973 ( in part because Stephens and other early visitors failed to note that there were surviving inscriptions ).

Ludza Castle ruins can be visited nowadays.

Ya ' akov ben Netan ' el, who visited the village in the 12th century during the period of Crusader rule, writes about the ruins of a synagogue quarried into the hill.

Guru Teg Bahadur the holy Sikh Guru visited this place in 1505 and met Srimanta Sankardeva ( the founder of the Mahapuruxiya Dharma ) as the Guru traveled from Dhaka to Assam, ruins of palaces, etc.

The ruins of castles, Thracian sites such as Perperikon and Tatul, the villages in National Revival style and the monasteries are also visited by many Bulgarian and foreign tourists.

When Daniel Defoe toured Scotland in 1717, he visited Elgin and said :" In this rich country is the city, or town rather, of Elgin ; I say city, because in antient time the monks claim'd it for a city ; and the cathedral shews, by its ruins, that it was a place of great magnificence.

In the medieval period, Hagi was dominated by the Yoshimi clan, who built Hagi Castle, of which the ruins can be visited today.

In the nineteenth century, Netley became a popular tourist attraction ( the novelist Jane Austen was among those who visited ) and steps were taken to conserve the ruins.

Nabonidus was staying in the city at the time and soon fled to the capital, Babylon, which he had not visited in years.

He participated in a sailing trip near Babylon, took part in the dinner party of Medeios the Thessalian with Alexander and visited the temple of Sarapis.

In the late 19th century the then current Duke of Argyll visited America, and more notably visited Babylon, Long Island, New York.

She visited the Hittite city of Carchemish, mapped and described the ruin of Ukhaidir and finally went to Babylon and Najaf.

Nabonidus was staying in the city at the time and soon fled to the capital, Babylon, which he had not visited in years.

A London subterranean river, used as a sewer, is visited briefly in Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere.

A route through the underground chambers proceeds, from the Entrance Hall, to the Steward's Chamber and Whitehead's Cave, through Lord Sandwich's Circle ( named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich ), Franklin's Cave ( named after Benjamin Franklin, a friend of Dashwood who visited West Wycombe ), the Banqueting Hall ( allegedly the largest man-made chalk cavern in the world ), the Triangle, to the Miner's Cave ; and finally, across a subterranean river named the Styx, lies the final cave, the Inner Temple, where the meetings of the Hellfire Club were held, and which is said to lie 300 feet ( 90 metres ) directly beneath the church on top of West Wycombe hill.

One day he was visited by a delegation of would-be imitators who wanted to know his secret.

The search for the first head coach had the team court then-Northwestern University head coach Ara Parseghian, who according to Minneapolis Star writer Jim Klobuchar — the Vikings ' first beat reporter for that newspaper — visited team management in the Twin Cities under the condition that his visit was to be kept secret from his current employer.

It was a family secret for 600 years and even ( Sir John's ) mother, who died shortly before we visited, refused to reveal the secret.

It has also been claimed that, in the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan enjoyed ice cream and kept it a royal secret until Marco Polo visited China and took the technique of making ice cream to Italy.

In 1819, when King Francis I of Naples visited the Pompeii exhibition at the National Museum with his wife and daughter, he was so embarrassed by the erotic artwork that he decided to have it locked away in a secret cabinet, accessible only to " people of mature age and respected morals ".

In revenge, Weyland killed the king's sons when they visited him in secret, fashioned goblets from their skulls, jewels from their eyes, and a brooch from their teeth.

For revenge, Völund killed the king's sons when they visited him in secret, fashioned goblets from their skulls, jewels from their eyes, and a brooch from their teeth.

Among other things the series asserts that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was a secret illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth I ; that Sir Francis Walsingham, the Queen's spymaster, did not die in 1590 as history records but lived in secret for another five years ; that playwrights Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson were all secret agents of the Queen and underwent dangerous missions in her service, in addition to their theatrical activities ; that the plays of all three had profound secret political and magical meanings ; that Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene was not a fictional work but was based on a true Kingdom of Faerie, whose Queen had a secret pact of mutual help with the English Queen Elizabeth ; that Christopher Marlowe was not assassinated in 1593 as history records but was taken into Faerie where he became the lover of the witch Morgan le Fay ; and that Shakespeare had also visited Faerie and personally met with Puck and other supposedly legendary characters depicted in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The secret group the Illuminati are eventually revealed to have visited the Kree and Skrull Empires, and advised the aliens that involving Earth in their wars would not be tolerated.

Whenever ships of the Royal Navy visited the area, they always lowered their flags as they passed his house, a mark of respect accorded to him because — according to local rumour — d ' Esterre had been involved in secret service activities during the Great War.

In a certain year, the then highest monk Seosandaesa visited the temple, heard about this Buddhist rite, and guessed that there must be a secret behind it.

She was visited by Locrinus for seven years in secret, trusting no one but the servants and a select few.

In his 18 year career, he has visited the world's leading defense establishments and has gained access to numerous top secret military facilities and bases in the US and former Soviet Union.

These missions uncovered an array of defects in the justice systems of the countries visited, including arbitrary or abusive laws, unlawful practices, co-opted judges, defective trial procedures, secret detentions, and abusive security forces.

He was, in fact, married ; but kept his marriage secret from his employers and visited his family only on his days off.

On the morning of August 24, 1939, he visited the Third Reich diplomat Hans von Herwarth and received the full content of the secret protocol to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, signed the day before.

In his memoirs ( Witness to History, 1973 ), former U. S. ambassador to Germany Charles E. Bohlen reveals how he on the morning of August 24, 1939, he visited von Herwarth at the German embassy and received the full content of the secret protocol to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, signed the day before.

After more than a year of repeated appeals and nearly two million people had already visited the mausoleum, she was finally allowed a single secret visit with heavy restrictions: she was not allowed to cry or make any noise inside and not talk to the press about the visit.

The colony is visited by the inspectors arriving in secret to discover why they do not answer any messages from the Earth.