no-one today would hope to discover the unmistakable ruins of Heorot or the palace of Priam.

The ruins of the palace were excavated in the 1960s.

Mexican Emperor Maximilian built his palace, Chapultepec Castle, over the ruins of an Aztec one.

It may have been found in the ruins of the Emperor Sargon II's palace in Khorsabad.

The ' Patuka ' palace can no longer be seen, except its ruins in the form of a mound.

The Arabs whom he employed in these excavations, to their great surprise, came upon the ruins of a building at the mound of Khorsabad, which, on further exploration, turned out to be the royal palace of Sargon II, which was largely explored for sculptures and other precious relics.

Marinus occupied the palace built by Pope John VII atop the Palatine Hill in the ruins of the Domus Gaiana.

The ruins of the palace at Yakkagala as described in the book very closely match the real-life ruins at Sigiriya in Sri Lanka.

* March 16 – The British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land on Crete on which the ruins of the palace of Knossos stand.

Roman ruins of theImperial palace of Mediolanum

Near the castle are the ruins of the fourteenth-century palace of the grand jury and the old cathedral ( 1603 ) probably built on a design by architect Camillo Camillians.

Heraklion is close to the ruins of the palace of Knossos, which in Minoan times was the largest centre of population on Crete.

The hospital was built in the palace ruins and licensed in 1512.

At that time Alexander burned " the palaces " or " the palace ," universally believed now to be the ruins at Takhti Jamshid.

The ruins of the palace of Apries, overlooking Memphis.

There are several places to see in the civilian city: Roman city quarter in the open-air museum, palace ruins, amphitheatre, and " Heidentor ".

The centre ( forum ) of the civilian city was next to the palace ruins, also referred to as the large public baths.

File: Carnuntum Palace Ruins. jpg | The palace ruins near Petronell

When the park was being re-landscaped as a setting for the palace the 1st Duchess wanted the historic ruins demolished, while Vanbrugh, an early conservationist, wanted them restored and made into a landscape feature.

Roman legions were stationed here, and on the ruins of their castra the Frankish mayors of the palace built a castle.

* 722-705 BC-An Assyrian bas-relief found in the ruins at Khorsabad during the excavation of the palace of Sargon II ( Sargon II ) has been claimed to depict falconry.

" The famous fresco of the flying fish found in the ruins of the principal house or palace at Phylakopi, with its delicate coloring and graphic observation of nature in the graceful movement of the fish, seems to be the work of a Cretan artist, who probably was summoned to Milos for the purpose.

In another city of the kingdom Arsameia, ruins have found of the royal palace.

At Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.

They looked at the ruins of the old Roman wall on the lower Via Veneto, then they went to the Farnese Gardens.

His tomb was pointed out among the ruins of Mycenae and at Amyclae.

The ruins have been excavated at a site near the village of Kanakia of Salamis, a few miles off the coast of Athens.

There was at the top of the Arc from 1882 to 1886, a monumental sculpture by Alexandre Falguière, " Le triomphe de la Révolution " ( the Triumph of the Revolution ), a chariot drawn by horses preparing " to crush Anarchy and Despotism ", that remained only four years up there before falling in ruins.

The distinctive red sandstone ruins stand at the top of the High Street in Arbroath.

Roman ruins at Abritus, site of the battle

The most extensive ruins are at Mỹ Sơn in Vietnam.

Malory's editor Caxton rejects the association, saying Camelot was in Wales and that its ruins could still be seen ; this is a likely reference to the Roman ruins at Caerwent.

Most of the ruins that survive today date from the most intense period of activity at the site in the 6th century BC.

The Tholos is located approximately a half a mile ( 800 m ) from the main ruins at Delphi.

An old dynamite storage magazine at Ladyha ' Colliery ruins, Ayrshire, Scotland.

Certainly Eugene's appearance was not impressive – " He was never good looking …" wrote the Duchess of Orléans, " It is true that his eyes are not ugly, but his nose ruins his face ; he has two large teeth which are visible at all times.

Roman-era ruins at Nicopolis

) in the ruins of Pompeii, and others at Herculaneum, were completed in buon fresco.

The term graffiti referred to the inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs of Rome or at Pompeii.

In order to have boltholes or decoys in case of attack, the Time Lords have created nine separate planet Gallifreys ( it even hinted that the original Gallifrey may at some point be reduced to ruins ) and special looms to constantly produce new soldiers.

He also proved that the ruins at Boğazköy were the remains of the capital of an empire that at one point controlled northern Syria.

A 1942 eyewitness description spoke of " a low grove of dead and decaying kou trees " on a very shallow hill at the island's center, but 58 years later ( 2000 ) a visitor accompanying a scientific expedition reported seeing " a flat bulldozed plain of coral sand, without a single tree " and some traces of building ruins.

Above all, Hadrian patronized the arts: Hadrian's Villa at Tibur ( Tivoli ) was the greatest Roman example of an Alexandrian garden, recreating a sacred landscape, lost in large part to the despoliation of the ruins by the Cardinal d ' Este who had much of the marble removed to build Villa d ' Este.

This Kalanaga state further refined and expanded upon Mapungubwe's stone architecture, which survives to this day at the ruins of the kingdom's capital of Great Zimbabwe.

Although the archaeological site at Harappa was damaged in 1857 when engineers constructing the Lahore-Multan railroad ( as part of the Sind and Punjab Railway ), used brick from the Harappa ruins for track ballast, an abundance of artifacts has nevertheless been found.

In 127 BC, out of the ruins of the Seleucid Greek Empire, Characene was founded at the head of the Persian Gulf in borders similar to present day Kuwait.