Its ancient cult of Aphrodite was the most important, after Paphos, in Cyprus, her homeland, though the ruins of Amathus are less well-preserved than neighboring Kourion.

Although Machu Picchu is by far the most well-known internationally, Peru boasts many other sites where the modern visitor can see extensive and well-preserved ruins, remnants of the Inca-period and even older constructions.

Because well-preserved Pteranodon skull fossils are extremely rare, researchers use stratigraphy ( i. e. which rock layer of the geologic formation a fossil is found in ) to determine species identity in most cases.

Egyptian ship and boat models are perhaps some of the most enchanting and well-preserved types of ship models available to archaeologists.

The downtown area is possibly one of the most well-preserved historic business districts in Texas.

The most interesting attraction is Hamningberg, an abandoned fishing village on the outer coast, with well-preserved 19th century wooden houses, a unique example of old architecture in a county so devastated by World War II.

Taoist in origin, and fused with some indigenous elements, Dongjing music was introduced to the Nakhi from the central plains during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and today it is the most well-preserved of the ancient musical forms in China.

The Vasa ( ship ) | Vasa is one of the oldest and most well-preserved ships salvaged in the world, owed to the cool temperatures and low salinity of the Baltic Sea

The Monastery of San Salvador de Celanova is the most important building in a well-preserved historical center.

This natural isolation along the length of the DMZ has created an involuntary park which is now recognised as one of the most well-preserved areas of temperate habitat in the world.

* Circa 1400 BC: Burial of the Egtved Girl in Denmark, whose body is today one of the most well-preserved examples of its kind.

In 1893 the Fraternity Hall was constructed for social gatherings, and still remains as one of the most well-preserved buildings in modern Elkhorn.

Another specimen, IGN 100 / 42, is perhaps the most famous, owing to its well-preserved complete skull and large size.

Among the most important surviving forts are the Fort Konstantin, the biggest in the Gulf of Finland ; the Fort Rif on the western shore of the island ; and the particularly well-preserved Chumnoy Fort ( Plague Fort ).

They form a second layer over the paintings from earlier centuries and represent one of the most complete and well-preserved monuments of Eastern European mediaeval art.

Vertebrate paleontology has become a global science, with major new discoveries in previously unexploited regions, most significantly the amazingly well-preserved feathered dinosaurs in China, which have further solidified the link between dinosaurs and their living descendants, modern birds.

Camarasaurus is among the most common and frequently well-preserved sauropod dinosaurs.

Since the numerous well-preserved Ghost Ranch specimes were used as Coelophysis in most of the scientific literature, the use of Rioarribasaurus would have been very inconvenient for researchers, so a petition was given to have the type specimen of Coelophysis transferred from the poorly-preserved original specimen to one of the well-preserved Ghost ranch specimens.

For the next mile or more downstream from here there are extensive archaeological remains on the river's banks, most notably Erme Pound ( the highest and largest Bronze Age enclosure in the area ), Downing's House ( a well-preserved " tinner's cache " or " beehive hut " with much of its roof preserved ), and a number of tinner's huts and blowing houses.

Dorset's coastline is one of the most visited and studied coastlines in the world because it shows, along the course of ( including some of east Devon ), rocks from the beginning of Triassic, through the Jurassic and up to the end of the Cretaceous, documenting the entire Mesozoic era with well-preserved fossils.

The well-preserved keep, described by historian R. Allen Brown as " one of the most remarkable keeps in England ", is of a unique design and probably based on Byzantine architecture.

Moreover, in Taormina there is one of the most charming music venues of Italy, the well-preserved Greek theatre which regularly hosts a season of concerts every summer.

Mount Vernon is home to some of the most beautiful and well-preserved 19th century architecture located in the East Coast of the United States.

Presupposed in Plato's system is a doctrine of levels of insight, in which a certain kind of detached understanding is alone capable of penetrating to the most sublime wisdom.

This, and other qualifications, make the cocktail party the most complete and most chaotic communication system ever dreamed up.

In any social system in which communications have an importance comparable with that of production and other human factors, a point like f in Figure 2 would ( other things being equal ) be the dwelling place for the community leader, while e and h would house the next most important citizens.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

The cost of developing a major weapon system is now so enormous that the greatest care must be exercised in selecting new systems for development, in determining the most satisfactory rate of development, and in deciding the proper time at which either to place a system into production or to abandon it.

In spite of the defects in this system, the figures on total population during the late 1930's and again in the early 1950's seem to have represented actual conditions in most districts with approximate fidelity.

Of the potentially useful sources of ionizing radiations, gamma sources, cobalt-60, cesium-137, fission products, or a reactor irradiation loop system using a material such as an indium salt have received most attention for food-preservation systems.

When the frequency response characteristics of practical components are considered, their effect on stability does not present the most serious limit on the system loop gain.

An elaborate system of accounting and reports was worked out, and the trade was to be managed in the most scientific way.

In most jurisdictions, the court system is divided into at least three levels: the trial court, which initially hears cases and reviews evidence and testimony to determine the facts of the case ; at least one intermediate appellate court ; and a supreme court ( or court of last resort ) which primarily reviews the decisions of the intermediate courts.

Where the Roman model ( like most modern Japanese ) has 4 plus 1 bead per decimal place, the standard suanpan has 5 plus 2, allowing use with a hexadecimal numeral system.

This is to avoid the notion that a writing system that represents sounds must be either a syllabary or an alphabet, which implies that a system like Aramaic must be either a syllabary ( as argued by Gelb ) or an incomplete or deficient alphabet ( as most other writers have said ); rather, it is a different type.

One of the most fascinating and intriguing aspects of Ancestral Puebloan infrastructure is at Chaco Canyon and is the Chaco Road, a system of roads radiating out from many great house sites such as Pueblo Bonito, Chetro Ketl and Una Vida, and leading towards small outlier sites and natural features within and beyond the canyon limits.

Since in oral languages the elements of sound are for the most part produced linearly in time ( that is, in a word like cat the a sound comes after the c sound, and the t sound comes after that ), they can generally be easily written in a linear ( one-dimensional ) writing system such as an alphabet.

This ensures that ΔG and ΔH are nearly the same over a considerable range of temperatures and justifies the approximate empirical Principle of Thomsen and Berthelot, which states that the equilibrium state to which a system proceeds is the one which evolves the greatest amount of heat, i. e. an actual process is the most exothermic one.

Lists of these " year names " henceforth became a calendrical system used in most independent Mesopotamian city-states.

It was modified somewhat after it was restored under Eucleides ; the most detailed accounts are of this fourth-century modification rather than the Periclean system.

It most commonly refers to the numeral system widely used in Europe and the Americas.

Schools will vary in their approach, but in North America the most popular method taught derives from the " system " of Constantin Stanislavski, which was developed and popularised in America by Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, and others.

To supplement air traffic control, most large transport aircraft and many smaller ones use a traffic alert and collision avoidance system ( TCAS ), which can detect the location of nearby aircraft, and provide instructions for avoiding a midair collision.

The most basic solution was a pure software system supplied on a ROM cartridge that drew a low resolution approximation of the mode 7 display in a graphics mode.

AppleTalk was at that time the most used networking system in the world, with over three times the installations of any other vendor.