Near the end of the Hippodrome I came upon the Built Column, a truncated obelisk of blocks, all that remains of a monument that once rivalled the Colossus of Rhodes.

Near the later site of Amphipolis Alexander I of Macedon defeated the remains of Xerxes ' army in 479 BC.

Near Fonni, too, are several menhirs ( called pietre celtiche in the district ) and other prehistoric remains like nuraghes.

Near Port Stanley, there is an Indian village dating from the 16th century known as the Southwold Earthworks where as many as 800 Neutral Indians once lived ; the archaeological remains include double earth walls winding around the grass – covered perimeter.

* Near the sea, in the Roman amphitheatre, are the remains of a church called Santa Maria del Miracle ( Holy Mary of the Miracle ), which belonged to the Knights Templar.

Near the village are many remains of ancient buildings, Egyptian, Greek and Roman.

Near its shore Nelson's Island is present where the remains of British officers, sailors, marines, women, and children were uncovered.

Near the Martello Tower at Slaughden Quay are the barely visible remains of the fishing smack Ionia.

Nonetheless the site now contains the only remains of an Assyrian siege ramp in the Near East.

* The material remains recovered throughout the Near East by archaeological excavation, analysed by ever more sophisticated technical and statistical apparatus

Albright, which sought to validate the historicity of the events narrated in the Bible through the ancient texts and material remains of the Near East, has little in common with the view of history described by archaeologist William Dever.

Near the end of the story, it is revealed the Descolada is possibly an artificially engineered virus designed to terraform planets, but the original creators of the virus are unknown, and there remains a slim chance it evolved naturally.

Rhyta occur among the remains of civilizations speaking different languages and language groups in and around the Near and Middle East, such as Persia, from the second millennium BC onwards.

The practice was extremely important in ancient societies ( e. g., Israelite and Near East ), and remains so today in parts of the world.

Near Turnu Severin are the remains of the celebrated Trajan's Bridge, the largest in the Empire.

Near Câmpulung are the remains of a Roman camp ; and just beyond the gates, vestiges a Roman colony, variously identified with Romula, Stepenium and Ulpia Traiana, but now called Grădiştea or Jidovi.

Near the sea, he is usually takes on more marine attributes, inland he remains thoroughly rural in nature.

In Wales Illustrated in a Series of Views by Henry Gastineau, published in 1810, it states: " Near the town are some remains of an ancient fortress called Castell Cadwgan, thought to have been erected by king Cadwgan, about the year 1148.

" Excavation techniques at first were modelled after excavations in Egypt and the Near East and searched for large artifacts and walls without much care for the delicate remains that might have existed in the ground around these artifacts.

The sickle remains common in the Bronze Age, both in the Ancient Near East and in Europe.

In many countries on the African continent, Central and South America as well as the Near, Middle and Far East this is still the case in the regions within these large geographies where the traditional village blacksmith remains alive and well.

Here was also found the first mention of a Near Eastern group known as the Habiru, whose possible connection with the Hebrews — due to the similarity of the words and their geographic location — remains debated.

Near the summit of the Wenallt, to the north of Rhiwbina, are the remains of an oval encampment probably dating from the Iron Age, the earliest evidence of settlement in the area.

In 2009 this parrot was downlisted from Endangered to Near Threatened because although it has a very small range within which there has been extensive forest loss and fragmentation, it apparently remains common in degraded and cultivated habitats and there is no evidence of a continuing decline.

There is no agreement on when and where this Urheimat existed, though the language is generally believed to have originated somewhere in or near the region stretching from the Levant / Near East to the area between the Eastern Sahara and the Horn of Africa, including Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan.

which left Amasis with no major Near Eastern allies to counter Persia's increasing military might.

However, the collapse of the Near Eastern trading system pointed to a flaw: in an era where there was no place that was safe to store value, the value of a circulating medium could only be as sound as the forces that defended that store.

Near the beam " waist " ( or focal region ) it is highly collimated: the wavefronts are planar, normal to the direction of propagation, with no beam divergence at that point.

While proso millet is not a member of the Neolithic Near East crop assemblage, it arrived in Europe no later than the time these introductions did, and proso millet as an independent domestication could predate the arrival of the Near East grain crops.

It also became clear that the " astralizing " ( association or identification with heavenly bodies ) of Ancient Near Eastern deities was a late ( Iron Age ) development in no way connected with the origin of religion as theorized by some 19th-century schools of thought.

Yet there is no trace of a Semitic deity directly connected with Adonis, and no trace in Semitic languages of any specific mythemes connected with his Greek myth ; both Greek and Near Eastern scholars have questioned the connection ( Burkert, p 177 note 6 bibliography ).

Near Srisailam, there is a forest called Hatakeshwanam, that no man enters.

Milos natural glass used for razor sharp " stone tools " was transported well before farming began and later: " There is no early farming village in the Near East that doesn't get obsidian ".

Near the summer solstice, latitudes higher than 54 ° 30 ′ get no darker than nautical dawn / dusk ; the " darkness of the night " varies greatly in these latitudes.

The Committee approved this recommendation, describing Skellig Michael as of " exceptional universal value ", and a " unique example of an early religious settlement ", while also noting the site's preservation as a result of its " remarkable environment ", and its ability to illustrate " as no other site can, the extremes of a Christian monasticism characterizing much of North Africa, the Near East and Europe ".

Hunting of this felid is prohibited in all range countries except Mongolia, where it has no legal protection despite being classified as Near Threatened in the country.

Assyria ceased to exist as an independent power, and Egypt retreated and was no longer a significant force in the Ancient Near East.

Islamic art covers a wide variety of media including calligraphy, illustrated manuscripts, textiles, ceramics, metalwork and glass, and refers to the art of Muslim countries in the Near East, Islamic Spain, and Northern Africa, though by no means always Muslim artists or craftsmen.

Near field communication ( NFC ) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish radio communication with each other by touching them together or bringing them into close proximity, usually no more than a few centimetres.

Near to the ferry port is the old Ferryman's House ( no longer inhabited ).

Less-than-threatened categories are Near Threatened, Least Concern, and the no longer assigned category of Conservation Dependent.

Near the end of the 1950s, his chair designs became much more unconventional, with no legs or discernible back.

Currently, there is no known surviving print of Une Heure près de toi ( One Hour Near You ).

Near the end of the 19th century, the hokku was completely separated from the context of haikai no renga by Masaoka Shiki and revised and written as an independent verse form which he named " haiku ", though retaining the kigo.

" Near the end of 1917, having participated in no battles, he was ordered back to England for reassignment found office duty as dreary as ever.

In 1938, when Max Holländer had to accept that as a Jew he could no longer remain in Germany, he announced :“ Castle property on the Rhine for sale immediately, Near Mainz!