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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 of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia By Robert Adam, 1764.
Ruins and graves on Europa island attest to several attempts at settlement from the 1860s to the 1920s.
Jesus and the miraculous catch of fish, in the Sea of Galilee The Crusader Ruins at Safed
Schliemann published Troja und seine Ruinen ( Troy and Its Ruins ) in 1875 and excavated the Treasury of Minyas at Orchomenus.
* Aztec Ruins National Monument at Aztec
Ruins at Philippi.
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.
Ruins at Eleusis.
Ruins at Luthers home
Ruins of the Manor House at Scadbury Park | Scadbury: the Walsingham family seat
Ruins of the original mission are at 508 South F Street, near East Locust Avenue.
" 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 University at Harran.
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.
Ruins at Fort Churchill State Historic Park
Ruins at Monasterboice
Ruins of the church at São Miguel das Missões, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Ruins at Nîmes, painting by Hubert Robert.
The remains of the plantation are preserved at the Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins State Historic Site.
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.

at and Sparta
The necromantic change from the palace at Sparta to Faust's Gothic castle directs us to the aesthetic meaning of the myth -- the translation of antique drama into Shakespearean and romantic guise.
His body was embalmed in wax, and buried at Sparta.
At Sparta women competed in public exercise — so in Aristophanes ' Lysistrata the Athenian women admire the tanned, muscular bodies of their Spartan counterparts — and women could own property in their own right, as they could not at Athens.
At Sparta, however, youths each sacrificed a puppy to Enyalios before engaging in ritual fighting at the Phoebaeum.
Athens at once appealed to Sparta to punish this act of medism, and Cleomenes I, one of the Spartan kings, crossed over to the island, to arrest those who were responsible for it.
( her birthplace ); in Attica at Brauron and Mounikhia ( near Piraeus ); in Sparta.
The A7 toll motorway for Tripoli and Kalamata, ( and Sparta via A71 toll ), branches off the A8 / European route E94 toll motorway from Athens at Corinth.
Such comic ' evidence ' suggests that Athenians admired Euripides even while they mistrusted his intellectualism, at least during the long war with Sparta.
It seems that, at first, a major naval expedition was led by Heruli, starting from northern Black Sea and leading in the ravaging of many cities of Greece ( among them, Athens and Sparta ).
According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta.
For a time during this conflict, Athens controlled not only Megara but also Boeotia ; at its end, however, in the face of a massive Spartan invasion of Attica, the Athenians ceded the lands they had won on the Greek mainland, and Athens and Sparta recognized each other's right to control their respective alliance systems.
After suffering a defeat at the hands of their colony of Corcyra, a sea power that was not allied to either Sparta or Athens, Corinth began to build an allied naval force.
With its victory at Mantinea, Sparta pulled itself back from the brink of utter defeat, and re-established its hegemony throughout the Peloponnese.
Sparta was later humbled by Thebes at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC, but it was all brought to an end a few decades later when Philip II of Macedon conquered all of Greece.
The animal masks were substituted by masks representing human faces, as it appears in the temple of Artemis Orthia at Sparta.
In mainland Greece, Pasiphaë was worshipped as an oracular goddess at Thalamae, one of the original koine of Sparta.
* The Congress at the Isthmus of Corinth, under the presidency of Sparta, brings together a number of the Greek city states, who agree to the end of the war between Athens and Aegina.
** Meanwhile at sea, the Persians are defeated by a Greek fleet headed by Leotychidas of Sparta and Xanthippus of Athens in the Battle of Mycale, off the coast of Lydia in Asia Minor.
* 669 BC: Argos defeats Sparta for the last time, this time using a Phalanx, at the battle of Hysiae.
Between 431 and 404 BC, Sparta was the principal enemy of Athens during the Peloponnesian War, from which it emerged victorious, though at great cost.
Herodotus seems to denote by it the Mycenaean Greek citadel at Therapne, in contrast to the lower town of Sparta.
Thucydides wrote: Suppose the city of Sparta to be deserted, and nothing left but the temples and the ground-plan, distant ages would be very unwilling to believe that the power of the Lacedaemonians was at all equal to their fame.
Until the early 20th century, the chief ancient buildings at Sparta were the theatre, of which, however, little showed above ground except portions of the retaining walls ; the so-called Tomb of Leonidas, a quadrangular building, perhaps a temple, constructed of immense blocks of stone and containing two chambers ; the foundation of an ancient bridge over the Eurotas ; the ruins of a circular structure ; some remains of late Roman fortifications ; several brick buildings and mosaic pavements.
The superior weaponry, strategy, and bronze armour of the Greek hoplites and their phalanx again proved their worth one year later when Sparta assembled at full strength and led a Greek alliance against the Persians at the battle of Plataea.

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