There are several UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Algeria including Al Qal ' a of Beni Hammad, the first capital of the Hammadid empire ; Tipasa, a Phoenician and later Roman town ; and Djémila and Timgad, both Roman ruins ; M ' Zab Valley, a limestone valley containing a large urbanized oasis ; also the Casbah of Algiers is an important citadel.

He claimed to have seen the fabulous Irem, or City of Pillars, and to have found beneath the ruins of a certain nameless desert town the shocking annals and secrets of a race older than mankind.

The remains of the acropolis fortifications are very interesting, including roads and ditches hewn in the rock ; but beyond ruins of two churches, a gatehouse, and a fine keep built by Thoros I There are no notable structures in the upper town.

This town fell into decay ( possibly due to an earthquake ) and the Byzantine town of Chonæ occupied a site near its ruins.

Geoffrey's description of Caerleon is probably based on his personal familiarity with the town and its impressive Roman ruins ; it is less clear that Caerleon was associated with Arthur before Geoffrey.

The ruins of this castle still stand on a steep hill overlooking the town.

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

* 1788 – A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.

The ancient part of the town is in a spectacular position on the top of a hill, where it preserves a particular medieval historical center, with ruins of a castle ( Castello della Fava ) and a square panoramic tower of the 13th century.

French settlers lodged themselves in the ruins of the town of Dieppe, which they rebuilt.

The well preserved ruins of the ancient town often are compared to the spectacular ruins at Pompeii in Italy.

* March 21 – Great New Orleans Fire kills 25 % of the population and destroys 856 buildings, including St. Louis Cathedral and the Cabildo, leaving most of the town in ruins.

At 19: 00 the 3rd Division of Fransecky's II Corps of the Second Army advanced across Ravine while the XII Corps cleared out the nearby town of Roncourt and with the survivors of the 1st Guards Infantry Division launched a fresh attack against the ruins of St. Privat.

Marsala is built on the ruins of the ancient Carthaginian city Lilibeo, and encompasses the famous archaeological site Motya island ( an ancient Phoenician town ).

Many archaeological sites and ancient ruins are located inside or around the town, as the prehistoric step pyramid of Monte d ' Accoddi, a large number of Nuraghes and Domus de Janas ( Fairy Houses ), the ruins of a Roman aqueduct, the ruins of a Roman villa discovered under San Nicholas Cathedral, and a portion of the ancient road that connected the Latin city of Turrys Lybissonis with Caralis.

The ruins of the Lycian and Roman town are mostly covered by alluvial silts.

The ruins of the small town of Haucourt, Pas-de-Calais | Haucourt

Soviet archeologist Mikhail Artamonov initially placed Balanjar on the site of the modern Daghestani city of Buynaksk, but when later the ruins of a town to the south of Makhachkala were found, he idenitified them as being those of Balanjar.

It covered the western end of the Wadi Tumilat, the eastern end being the district of Succoth, which had Pithom as its main town, extended north as far as the ruins of Piramesse ( the " land of Rameses "), and included both crop land and grazing land.

By the end of the conflicts, the town of Van was empty and in ruins.

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.

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

One may see similarities with how melancholic romantic paintings in the west sometimes used ruins from the age of the Roman Empire as a backdrop.

In other areas USGS digital map revisions may omit geographic features such as ruins, mine locations, springs, wells, and even trails in an effort to protect natural resources and the public at large, or because such features are not present in any public domain database.

Henry Swinburne, however, mentions Roman ruins as existing in the peninsula formed by the rivers Crathis and Sybaris near their junction, which may perhaps be those of Thurii.

Blocks of burnt bricks from the ruins of the great house were used by local builders to construct garden walls for houses all along Woodmansterne Road, and may still be seen today.

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 ".

From 2006 – 2008, Charlevoix has offered to host the LaSalle-Griffon Project, a project that seeks to the ruins of a shipwreck that may be Le Griffon.

In circumstances like these, where the margin of error is so minute, the performance may need to be aided by a click track, or it will completely fall apart, and it can become a blur in which the downbeats can't be clearly recognized, with the overall rhythm possibly in ruins.

Though the huge scale of the ruins along with Caerleon's importance as an urban centre in early mediæval Kingdom of Gwent may have inspired Geoffrey, the main historical source for Arthur's link with " the camp of the legion " is the list of the twelve battles of Arthur in the 9th century Historia Brittonum.

The first known domed basilica may have been a church at Meriamlik in southern Turkey, dated from 471-494, although the ruins do not provide a definitive answer.

These fortifications were presciently described by William Ewart Gladstone as " a monument of human folly, useless to us ... but perhaps not absolutely useless to a possible enemy, with whom we may at some period have to deal and who may possibly be able to extract some profit in the way of shelter and accommodation from the ruins.

The ruins of the priory may be viewed, but Brizlee Tower is not open to the public.

Some researchers have presented an argument that the ruins may have housed an astronomy observatory, although the significance of the alignments upon which these claims are based is contested.

After observing the positioning of Qumran atop a plateau overlooking the ‘ Ein Feshkha Springs, he concluded the ruins " may have very well been once a small fortress.

The plan did not work out, owing to the difficulties of railroad construction in the interior, although the ruins of the three prisons may still be seen.

At the end, after Bronowski shows us the ruins of Hiroshima and the ash-strewn pond at Auschwitz ( a 16mm filmstrip of this scene is shown in the book ), we see again a shot of the older Borgrajewicz dissolving to a photograph of a younger man with the name " BOR-GRAJEWICZ, Stefan " and the number 125558, which may be his official record in the archives of Auschwitz.

Proponents of a pre-Columbian, yet non-Native American, origin for the site argue that some stones are encased in trees that may have sprouted before the arrival of the first colonists, claim that there are similarities between the ruins and Phoenician architecture, and say that marks on some stones resemble some ancient writing systems of the Old World.

The Iggle was officially declared a public menace by the FBI (" The life it ruins may be your own!

The Samnites were composed of at least four tribes: the Pentri ( the most important tribe, capital: Bovianum ), the Caraceni ( principal cities: Cluviae, the modern Casoli, and Juvanum, the ruins of which are spread between Torricella Peligna and Montenerodomo ), the Caudini ( capital: Caudium, today Montesarchio ) and the Hirpini ( Oscan for wolf ; capital Beneventum ), and later may have been joined by the Frentani ( capital Larinum, the modern Larino ).

Archaeologists have speculated that the ancient city of Golan may be Sahm el-Jaulān, a large village east of Nahr ‛ Allān and southeast of Tsīl, where ruins were found from the early Byzantine era.

The main palace at Ebla was also found to contain " antiques " dating from Ancient Egypt with the names of pharaohs Khafra and Pepi I. Handicrafts may also have been a major export: exquisite artifacts have been recovered from the ruins, including wood furniture inlaid with mother-of-pearl and composite statues created from different colored stones.

* The Greek Orthodox Church of St John, dating from the 13th or 14th century and built on the ruins of a previous church, which may have been built as early as the 6th century.