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

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 ruins of Minos ' palace at Knossos have been found, but the labyrinth has not.

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.

Gaunt scaffoldings adjoined the ruins, and on the ground segments of columns two and a half to three feet in thickness were being fitted with sections cunningly chiseled to match exactly the fluting and proportion of the original.

This continued until 1815 when steps were taken to preserve the remaining ruins.

The earliest accounting records were found amongst the ruins of ancient Babylon, Assyria and Sumeria, which date back more than 7, 000 years.

Crossing the Aniene and turning to the right, the path rises along the left face off the ravine and soon reaches the site of Nero's villa and of the huge mole which formed the lower end of the middle lake ; across the valley were ruins of the Roman baths, of which a few great arches and detached masses of wall still stand.

Before this discovery, it is widely believed that bricks appeared about 3000 years ago in the Western Zhou dynasty since the earliest bricks were found in Western Zhou ruins.

Though the structures found in the ruins of Mohenjo-daro were walled, it is far from clear that these structures were defensive against enemy attacks.

Two churches were reconstructed and the remaining ruins of the old town were torn down in the 1960s.

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

However, in the late 20th century, the city grew around the ruins, and, in some cases, over some of the outlying ruins before they were protected.

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

Greece was diplomatically isolated and vulnerable, as the Corfu incident of 1923 showed, and the economical foundations of the state were in ruins, after a decade of war and the sudden increase of the country's population by a quarter.

The ancient city of Harappa was greatly destroyed under the British Raj, when bricks from the ruins were used as track ballast in the making of the Lahore-Multan Railroad.

The Aegidienkirche was not rebuilt and its ruins were kept as a WWII memorial.

After the war, the Aegidienkirche was not rebuilt and its ruins were kept as a war memorial.

In January 1958 all scattered building ruins from both the nineteenth century guano diggings and the 1935-1942 colonization attempt were swept away without a trace by a severe storm which lasted several days and was witnessed by the scientists.

In 2010, bones were discovered in the ruins of a Bulgarian church and two years later, after DNA and radio carbon testing proved the bones belonged to a Middle Eastern man who lived in the first century AD, scientists said that the remains could conceivably have belonged to John the Baptist.

The ruins became the site of potters ' workshops until about 500 AD, when two parallel colonnades were built behind the city gates, overrunning the old city walls.

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.

In 1924, the Malden ruins were examined by an archaeologist from the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Kenneth Emory, who concluded that they were the creation of a small Polynesian population which had resided there for perhaps several generations some centuries earlier.

In 2009, however, the ruins of a synagogue with pottery dating from before the destruction of the Second Temple were discovered under land in Magdala owned by the Legionaries of Christ, who had intended to construct a center for women's studies.