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Ruins at Nîmes, painting by Hubert Robert.
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* Structures ; Ruins of palaces, palatial villas, houses, built dome-or cist-graves and fortifications ( Aegean islands, Greek mainland and northwestern Anatolia ), but not distinct temples ; small shrines, however, and temene ( religious enclosures, remains of one of which were probably found at Petsofa near Palaikastro by J. L. Myres in 1904 ) are represented on intaglios and frescoes.
Ruins and graves on Europa island attest to several attempts at settlement from the 1860s to the 1920s.
Schliemann published Troja und seine Ruinen ( Troy and Its Ruins ) in 1875 and excavated the Treasury of Minyas at Orchomenus.
Archaeological work at the Ruins of Yin ( near modern day Anyang ), which has been identified as the last Shang capital, uncovered eleven major Yin royal tombs and the foundations of palaces and ritual sites, containing weapons of war and remains from both animal and human sacrifices.
" The first Discovery and Settlement of this Country was by the Procurement of Sir Walter Raleigh, in Conjunction with some publick-spirited Gentlemen of that Age, under the Protection of Queen Elizabeth ; for which Reason it was then named Virginia, being begun on that Part called Ronoak-Island, where the Ruins of a Fort are to be seen at this day, as well as some old English Coins which have been lately found ; and a Brass-Gun, a Powder-Horn, and one small Quarter deck-Gun, made of Iron Staves, and hoop'd with the same Metal ; which Method of making Guns might very probably be made use of in those Days, for the Convenience of Infant-Colonies.
Ruins of the amphitheatre at ErythraiErythrae or Erythrai () later Litri, was one of the twelve Ionian cities of Asia Minor, situated 22 km north-east of the port of Cyssus ( modern name: Çeşme ), on a small peninsula stretching into the Bay of Erythrae, at an equal distance from the mountains Mimas and Corycus, and directly opposite the island of Chios.
These studies were later published as Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia in 1764.
The area that is now Farmington was settled by the Anasazi in the 7th Century with ruins now visible at nearby Salmon Ruins and in Aztec Ruins.
Ruins and painting
Delacroix followed up with Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi ( 1827 ), commemorating a siege of the previous year, and the Death of Sardanapalus, inspired by Lord Byron, which although set in antiquity has been credited with beginning the mixture of sex, violence, lassitude and exoticism which runs through much French Orientalist painting.
These were two water-colours, shown at the Dudley Gallery in 1873, one of them being the beautiful Love among the Ruins, destroyed twenty years later by a cleaner who supposed it to be an oil painting, but afterwards reproduced in oils by the painter.
File: Kosztka Csontváry – A taorminai görög színház romjai. PNG | Ruins of Greek Theatre at Taormina painting by Hungarian painter Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry ( 1904-1905 )
Ruins remain a popular subject for painting and creative photography and are often romanticized in film and literature, providing scenic backdrops or used as metaphors for other forms of decline or decay.
This same incident-condemned throughout Western Europe for its cruelty-also inspired a prominent painting by Eugène Delacroix ( Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi ), and was mentioned in the writings of Victor Hugo.
After this incident, many people from Western Europe felt increased sympathy for the Greek cause, as manifested for example in the famous Delacroix painting Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi ( 1827 ).
* An extremely high-res photo of painting Ruins of Greek Theatre at Taormina ( courtesy of Hungarian National Gallery )
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Ruins of ten wooden guano-mining buildings, the two-story house among them, could still be seen by the Amaranth crew, who left Jarvis aboard two lifeboats.
In 1990, TSR also published WGR1 Greyhawk Ruins, a module and source book about Castle Greyhawk by TSR writers Blake Mobley and Timothy Brown.
Examples of games which feature hobbits include the Wizardry series, Quiz Magic Academy series, Lufia: The Ruins of Lore, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, the Middle-earth Role Playing ( MERP ) System ( by Iron Crown Enterprises ), and Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game ( by Decipher Games ).
The area has been settled extensively since prehistoric times, and numerous Jōmon period sites have been found by archaeologists, the most famous being the Sannai-Maruyama Ruins located just southwest of the city center dating to 5500-4000 BC, and the Komakino site slightly further south dating to around 4000 BC.
The abbey is a Grade I listed building owned by the National Trust and part of the designated Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey UNESCO World Heritage Site.
In 1994, a large scale performance event ' From the Ruins ' was held in the abbey ruins, the finale event for the ' Art in Reading ' ( AIR ) festival, funded in part by Reading Borough Council.
In 1995, the ruined South Transept was used as the setting for the first Abbey Ruins Open Air Shakespeare production by MDM Productions and Progress Theatre in partnership with Reading Borough Council.
His record of this expedition, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, which was illustrated by another folio volume, called A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh, was published in 1853.
Ruins of the " Western style " Xiyanglou complex in the Old Summer Palace, burnt down by Anglo-French forces.
To the beginning of his four and a half years ' residence in Italy belong the forty-seven sonnets of his Antiquités de Rome, which were rendered into English by Edmund Spenser ( The Ruins of Rome, 1591 ).
Ruins of the Palace of Ardashir and Ghal ' eh Dokhtar in Fars Province, built by Ardashir I ( 224-240 ), demonstrate the use of the dome by the Sassanid Empire in what is today Iran.
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