Archaeological excavations uncovered impressive prehistoric tombs dating to the 7th millennium BC at the western edge of Eilat, while nearby copper workings and mining operations at Timna Valley are the oldest on earth.

Berney Arms village and the impressive landmark of Berney Arms windpump are nearby.

Today the Sun Valley Center for the Arts has its main building in nearby Ketchum as well as a historic house and classroom in Hailey, and continues to present an impressive list of guest artists in the visual and performing arts.

Much of the stonework was plundered for building materials for the town and nearby manor house Berkhamsted Place ( demolished in 1967 ) but the impressive earthworks and two of the original three moats remain.

While from Nepal the mountain is overpowered by nearby Makalu, the fifth-highest peak in the world, the three peaks are a very impressive and dominating sight from the Kangshung valley in Tibet.

The nearby Hardwick Court Farm, now much reduced in size and cut off from the town by the M25, retains the abbey's impressive 15th century tithe barn.

In 1543, the Franco-Turkish armies sacked and occupied the city after the siege of Nice, prompting Duke Emmanuel Philibert to secure the site by building an impressive citadel and a fort on nearby Mont Alban.

For example, the Dublin-Belfast railway line follows the line of the Dublin and Drogheda Railway along the coast ( MacNeill was knighted in 1844 following its completion ) and many of its impressive original structures remain ( e. g.: the 98 ft high Boyne Viaduct built between 1851 and 1855 near Drogheda, the 18-arch, 126 ft high Craigmore Viaduct near Bessbrook and the nearby MacNeill's Egyptian Arch ).

In the figure a 3-D reconstruction of the inner parts of the survey is shown, revealing an impressive view on the cosmic structures in the nearby universe.

The Tíscar castle is in a ruined state, but nearby is the Cueva del Agua, a cave where there is an impressive waterfall and where it is said that the Virgin Mary of Tíscar appeared.

The peak is an impressive sharp rock pyramid or tooth, towering high ( when the peak is visible ) over the nearby lowlands on the Brazilian side, as the Imeri range quickly rises from only about 100 metres above sea level to about 2, 000 metres at the base of the peak in just a few kilometres ; from there the peak rises sharply.

The deep and impressive nearby dene extends all the way to sea and its many Yew trees are a particular feature where they find the magnesian limestone soil advantageous.

His day was seriously compromised after he bumped his head while walking nearby the motorhome and also due to Verstappen's impressive test times.

Other impressive ' Wool Churches ' nearby include Holy Trinity church in nearby Long Melford.

From nearby mountains in the northeast the impressive lineup of Königspitze, Zebru and Ortler is known as “ das Dreigestirn ” ( the three heavenly bodies ).

The building contains some extravaganza of this time and provides an impressive view from the lower meadows nearby.

It appears to have been the central city for an unknown tribe, possibly a sub-tribe of the Vindelici centered in the nearby ( and equally impressive ) Oppidum of Manching.

In the 18th century Aberdour's harbour was improved by the addition of a stone pier to help handle the coal traffic from nearby collieries.

The original, now broken, socket stone for the cross lies nearby.

Dr Johnson's unique " refutation " of Bishop Berkeley's immaterialism, his claim that matter did not actually exist but only seemed to exist, has been described as Ignoratio elenchi: during a conversation with Boswell, Johnson powerfully kicked a nearby stone and proclaimed of Berkeley's theory, " I refute it thus!

When Europeans first arrived, inhabitants of New Guinea and nearby islands – while still relying on bone, wood, and stone tools – had a productive agricultural system.

According to one tradition, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries his body was thrown into the nearby River Soar, although other evidence suggests that a memorial stone was visible in 1612, in a garden built on the site of Greyfriars.

Other stone tools from the Middle Paleolithic era ( 200, 000 – 80, 000 BCE ) come from the Prepost cave ( Prepoštská jaskyňa ) near Bojnice and from other nearby sites.

The ruins of a crude stone fortress on nearby Sphacteria Island, apparently of Mycenaean origin, were used by the Spartans during the Peloponnesian War.

The stone adzes were mass-produced on Penghu and nearby islands, from the volcanic rock found there.

Books were sold on this bridge and stone platforms were built nearby for guns – " raskats ".

The stone used for the building is magnesian limestone, a creamy-white coloured rock that was quarried in nearby Tadcaster.

The vicinity of Glamis Castle has prehistoric traces ; for example, a noted intricately carved Pictish stone known as the Eassie Stone was found in a creek-bed at the nearby village of Eassie.

They come to Mayapore, a desolate village in northern India, where the poor villagers believe them to have been sent by the Hindu god Shiva and enlist their help to retrieve the sacred Sivalinga stone stolen from their shrine, as well as the community's children, from evil forces in the nearby Pankot Palace.

It is believed that a large stone in the nearby church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin is what is left of the Ara Maxima.

After another boss battle against a bow-like creature named Bowyer, who is turning everyone in the nearby Rose Town to stone, Geno then joins Mario and tells him that the Star Piece is a part of the shattered Star Road, where he resides.

* Other ancient sites nearby include Beaghmore stone circles and Tullyhogue Fort ( beside the village of Tullyhogue ), the inauguration site of the chiefs of Tyrone ( Tir Eogain ), the O ' Neills.

In the nearby stepwell, a stone bears a script that resembles the Harappan script.

Whitney constructed stone houses for his employees in the nearby area, which is still referred to as Whitneyville ; this is believed to be the first example of employer-provided homes in U. S. history.

The WPA helped to build the gymnasium and tennis courts at the school on Main Street and the CCC built the Hogansville Amphitheater using stone from a nearby rock quarry.

The step pyramid ( or proto-pyramid ) is considered to be the earliest large-scale cut stone construction, although the nearby enclosure known as Gisr el-mudir would seem to predate the complex.

A nearby stone barn and barnyard wall proved a superb defensive position for the 34th Virginia Battalion ’ s dismounted cavalry.

The East Sylva Baptist Church is the dominant building of the neighborhood, with a tall spire and three floors, built in the mid-1950s and replacing an earlier stone church nearby.

This structure was built with stone quarried from the nearby Marble Cliff Quarry Co., and was once a residence of local industrialist and U. S. Senator Samuel Prescott Bush, grandfather and great-grandfather of U. S. Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush respectively.

Constructed of native stone brought from nearby fields, it continues in use today.

Grannas Brothers operate a large stone quarry just outside of Williamsburg, in nearby Ganister.

Benjamin Chambers built a private stone fort during the war, which was equipped with two 4 pounder cannons and fighting occurred nearby.