Though Han wooden structures decayed, some Han-dynasty ruins made of brick, stone, and rammed earth remain intact.

The oldest known surviving piece of paper with writing on it was found in the ruins of a Han watchtower that had been abandoned in 110 CE, in Inner Mongolia.

The ruins of a Han Dynasty ( 202 BC-220 AD ) Chinese watchtower made of rammed earth at Dunhuang, Gansu province, the eastern edge of the Silk Road

The ruins of a Han Dynasty ( 202 BC-220 AD ) Chinese watchtower made of rammed earth at Dunhuang, Gansu province, the eastern edge of the Silk Road

The ruins of a Han Dynasty ( 202 BCE – 220 CE ) Chinese watchtower made of rammed earth at Dunhuang, Gansu province, at the eastern end of the Silk Road

The board was found in the ruins of a watchtower at the tombs of Emperor Jingdi of the Western Han Dynasty, and his empress.

The village of Cloyne has a round tower which is the village's symbol. There is also ruins of a Norman watchtower on a hill overlooking the town.

A survey of the ruins of the Praetorium, long thought to be the Roman barracks, indicated it was no more than a watchtower.

German World War I watchtower ( left ) at Montfaucon, France, in the ruins of a church.

Hadrian, who repaired the Via Appia from Beneventum to this point, made it a colony ; it has ruins of the city walls, of an aqueduct, baths and an amphitheatre ; nearly 400 inscriptions have also been discovered.

For Golb, the amount of documents is too extensive and includes many different writing styles and calligraphies ; the ruins seem to have been a fortress, used as a military base for a very long period of timeincluding the 1st centuryso they could not have been inhabited by the Essenes ; and the large graveyard excavated in 1870, just 50 metres east of the Qumran ruins was made of over 1200 tombs that included many women and childrenPliny clearly wrote that the Essenes that lived near the Dead Sea " had not one woman, had renounced all pleasure ... and no one was born in their race ".

Excavations made in 1879 and 1880 led to the discovery of the remains of this station, arranged round three sides of a courtyard some 100 ft. square, including traces of baths and other buildings, and a massive embanking wall above them, some 150 ft. in length, to protect them from landslips, while a discharge certificate ( tabula honestae missionis ) of sailors who had served in the Ravenna's fleet was found in some ruins here or hereabouts.

In 2010, following archaeological discoveries at the Roman ruins in Chester, some writers suggested that the Chester Roman Amphitheatre was the true prototype of the Round Table but the English Heritage Commission, acting as consultants to a History Channel documentary in which the claim was made, declared that there was no archaeological basis to the story.

Prisoner 849 travels through the mines, meeting Nali slaves and eventually entering the ruins of Nali temples, villages and cities, where the extent of the Nalis ' suffering and exploitation are made clear.

The first post-Roman record of the ruins at Vindolanda was made by the antiquarian William Camden, in his Britannia ( 1586 ).

A letter to the editor of the Morning Chronicle of 2 January 1819 states that " On the 19th of November, as the servants belonging to the West Mains of Dunsinane-house, were employed in carrying away stones from the excavation made among the ruins that point out the site of Macbeth's castle here, part of the ground they stood on suddenly gave way, and sunk down about six feet, discovering a regularly built vault, about six feet long and four wide.

von Kittlitz, a member of the Litke expedition made a further descriptive account, including the offshore ruins of Nan Madol, and the two reports together provided the first real knowledge of Pohnpei.

An additional natural disaster was the Rhine rift earthquake of 1356, one of Europe's worst which made ruins of Basel.

" Woe to us ," cried Rabbi Yehosua, " for this house where atonement was made for Israel's sins now lies in ruins!

Burlington never closely inspected Roman ruins or made detailed drawings on the sites ; he relied on Palladio and Scamozzi as his interpreters of the classic tradition.

) The king had made an oath that should he succeed in conquering Jerusalem, he would restore the ruins of the Temple.

According to Apollonius Rhodius and Pausanias he was the first king ever to have made a treasury, of which the ruins were still extant in Pausanias ' times.

Although in previous decades the writers and philosophers had discussed the glories of ancient Rome, it seems that until Brunelleschi and Donatello made their journey, no-one had studied the physical fabric of these ruins in any great detail.

It may be located within the precinct of the Hout-ka-Ptah, as would seem to suggest several discoveries made among the ruins of the complex in the late 19th century, including a block of stone evoking the " great door " with the epithet of the goddess, and a column bearing an inscription on behalf of Rameses II declaring him " beloved of Sekhmet ".

* Karl Richard Lepsius, during the Prussian expedition of 1842, made a quick survey of the ruins and created a first detailed map that would serve as the basis for all future explorations and excavations.

Nazlini Canyon is the site of many native American ruins and campsites which were abandoned when erosion made them unusable.

Burlington had never closely inspected Roman ruins or made detailed drawings on the sites in Italy ; he relied on Palladio and Scamozzi as his interpreters of the classic tradition.

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.

After their migration, the Croats made a settlement near the ruins of Mursa, giving it its present name, Osijek.

The first scholarly description of the ruins was made by Antonio García Cubas of the Mexican Society of Geography and History in 1873.

Although mostly only ruins of brick and rammed earth walls and towers from ancient China ( i. e. before the 6th century AD ) have survived, information on ancient Chinese architecture ( especially wooden architecture ) can be discerned from more or less realistic clay models of buildings created by the ancient Chinese as funerary items.

* The underground ruins were the setting for the climax of Beneath the Planet of the Apes ( 1970 ) where Taylor destroyed the earth with the Alpha-Omega bomb.

An earth bank of unknown origin, possibly the ruins of an ancient fort, surrounds parts of the park.

After the Ottoman Turks ' siege in 1544 the palace fell into ruins, and by the 18th century it was completely covered by earth.

The Asturian miners practice a scorched earth policy, and from the ruins of their houses often fight to the death with dynamite charges. Largo Caballero arrested during a speech in the Madrid cinema ' Pardinas ', in which he criticized the PCE ; he is placed under house arrest.

Since Arya-gan ( Argan ) city was destroyed in a natural disaster, most probably because of massive earth quakes and floodings, all survivors were forced to leave the ruins.

From the Red Sea coast to the limits of the Rub ’ al Khali desert are numerous ruins of small and large dams made of earth and stone.

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.