These performances were being staged at historical monuments throughout Europe.

Statues and other monuments that stood there were stolen, mostly by the waves of Crusaders.

Few further changes were made to the grounds, with the exception of the monuments and cottages built during the remainder of the 19th century.

The Church of Hagia Sophia, the sacred palace of the emperors, the hippodrome, and the Golden Gate were among the largest of the many churches, public edifices, and monuments lining the arcaded avenues and squares.

Serious studies of the Korean megalithic monuments were not undertaken until relatively recently, well after much research had already been conducted on dolmen in other regions of the world.

The site is publicly accessible. Alos known as Although one of the largest kofun monuments in Japan, archaeological investigations in 1962 – 1963 indicate that it was constructed in the early 5th century, and that portions of it were destroyed during the construction of Heijo-kyō, calling into question the designation by the Imperial Household Agency.

Situations were chosen both for their proximity to communities ( although this is less the case than with earlier monuments ) and for the views they commanded.

Edwards notes that the pyramid had " almost certainly been opened and its contents plundered long before the time of Herodotus " and that it might have been closed again during the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt when other monuments were restored.

All educated European gentlemen were expected to make the Grand Tour, visiting Italy to see its great historical monuments and works of art.

Many religions popular in ethnic regions of the Soviet Union, including the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Catholic Churches, Baptists, Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism underwent ordeals similar to that which the Orthodox churches in other parts of the country suffered: thousands of monks were persecuted, and hundreds of churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, sacred monuments, monasteries and other religious buildings were razed.

During the Archaic period increasingly large and complex grave mounds and monuments were built along the south bank of the Eridanos, lining the Sacred Way.

Many sectors were left in ruins and ancient monuments became fields of grass used as pastures for animals, thus the Roman Forum became the campo vaccinio: the field of cows.

According to Agassiz, the different races were created in different provinces, each race was indigenous to the province it was created in, he cited evidence from Egyptian monuments to prove that fixity of racial types had existed for at least five millennia.

Sultan Murad IV put emphasis on architecture and in his period many monuments were erected.

" The monuments around Maeshowe, including Skara Brae, were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999.

The inscription corpus consists of two monuments which were erected in the Orkhon Valley between 732 and 735 in honour of the two Kokturk prince Kul Tigin and his brother the emperor Bilge Kağan, as well as inscriptions on slabs scattered in the wider area. The script was also used for the epic poetry of the Turkic people.

They were monuments to dead kings and queens.

Several other monuments were also damaged: Palazzo del Giardino, Steccata church, San Giovanni church, Palazzo Ducale, Paganini theater and the monument to Verdi.

This wealth was shown by the many monuments that were particularly imposing considering the relatively small size of the urban area: the forum, laid out in two terraces on both sides of the main road, was constructed in several phases between the reigns of Claudius and Antoninus Pius, and the theatre was enlarged and expanded in order to hold Roman games.

Aside from the complete rebuilding of the ancient church of Santa Maria in Trastevere, which boldly features Ionic capitals from former colonnades in the Baths of Caracalla and other richly detailed spolia from Roman monuments, the remaining years of this Pope's life were almost as barren of permanent political results as the first had been.

In the dozen years following the disaster, more than 30 monuments and memorials were set up in Britain alone.

As a proxy for his father, Romulus made no decisions and left no monuments, though coins bearing his name were minted in Rome, Milan, Ravenna, and Gaul.

and numerous cultural monuments were seriously damaged.

Crossed reversed torches were signs of mourning that appear on Greek and Roman funerary monuments — a torch pointed downwards symbolizes death, while a torch held up symbolizes life, truth and the regenerative power of flame.

Among the interesting monuments of Chojnów are the 13th century castle of the Dukes of Legnica ( currently used as a museum ), two old churches, the Baszta Tkaczy ( Weavers ' Tower ) and preserved fragments of city walls.

Since prehistory, they have also been built as sepulchral monuments, or used for defensive, hunting, ceremonial, astronomical and other purposes.

Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from interment itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honor.

Starting in the mid-1980s, the Baltic states used the reforms provided by glasnost to assert their rights to protect their environment ( for example during the Phosphorite War ) and their historic monuments and, later, their claims to sovereignty and independence.

Granite has been extensively used as a dimension stone and as flooring tiles in public and commercial buildings and monuments.

Representations of the seven branched artifact have been found on tombs and monuments dating from the 1st century as a frequently used symbol of Judaism and the Jewish people.

Masonry is commonly used for the walls of buildings, retaining walls and monuments.

He used the treasures Rome had acquired from the conquests to build great monuments for Rome.

This technology can be used to develop virtual replicas of caves, natural environment, old towns, monuments, sculptures and archaeological elements.

The origins of Monument Park can be traced to the original three monuments of Lou Gehrig, Miller Huggins, and Babe Ruth that once used to stand in-play in center field.

In the Qabr-er-Rumia -- " grave of the Roman lady ," " Roman " being used by the Arabs to designate strangers of Christian origin — the Madghacen, and the Jedars, Algeria possesses a remarkable series of sepulchral monuments.

Sacred geometry is the geometry used in the planning and construction of religious structures such as churches, temples, mosques, religious monuments, altars, tabernacles ; as well as for sacred spaces such as temenoi, sacred groves, village greens and holy wells, and the creation of religious art.

The material and marking used on monuments placed to mark boundary corners are often subject to state laws.

Traditionally this has been interpreted as referring to the rod of the scribe, an object that in Assyrian monuments was a stylus of wood or metal used to inscribe clay tablets, or to write on papyrus ; as such, the ones who wielded it would have been the associates / assistants of lawgivers.

Anger used a short actress to suggest a different sense of scale, whereby the monuments seemed bigger ( a technique he said was inspired by etchings of the gardens in the Villa d ' Este by Giovanni Battista Piranesi ).

Since the beginning of the 4th century, the monuments of Rome, and more generally all those buildings of some value that were in a state of neglect for various reasons, were increasingly used as quarries for valuable building materials.

The Church is still actively used and in addition " The Friends of St. Mary's Church " were set up to maintain, repair, restore, preserve, improve, beautify and reconstruct for the benefit of the public the fabric of the Church of St. Mary, Beddgelert its monuments, fixtures, fittings, furniture, stained glass, ornaments and other chattels and its churchyard.

Winnsboro blue granite, " The Silk of the Trade ," is used worldwide in buildings and monuments.

Tivoli's quarries produce travertine, a particular white calcium-carbonate rock used in building most Roman monuments.

The protection given to scheduled monuments is given under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979, which is a different law from that used for listed buildings ( which fall within the town and country planning system ).

Much of the limestone used in the construction of various Washington, D. C., monuments was quarried in the Bedford area, and Bedford received $ 500, 000 in grants from the federal government to build a ten-story replica of the Great Pyramid of Giza out of local limestone ; however, the work was never completed, despite a further $ 125, 000 being allocated to finish it.

The hieroglyphs were in columns, which were separated by black lines-a similar arrangement to that used when hieroglyphs were carved on tomb walls or monuments.