Veii ( also Veius, Italian: Veio ) was, in ancient times, an important Etrurian city NNW of Rome, Italy ; its site lies in Isola Farnese, a village of Municipio XX, an administrative subdivision of the comune of Rome in the Province of Rome.

Powerful Veii was a fortified city on an elevated site, which required several years of Roman siege.

Twenty feet below the street level in the excavation of the new motel to be constructed on this site, a black coal-like deposit has been encountered.

Azincourt is famous as being near the site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d ' Albret on behalf of Charles VI of France, which has gone down in English history as the Battle of Agincourt.

The strategic site has been a prohibited zone in the twentieth century.

Agate is one of the most common materials used in the art of hardstone carving, and has been recovered at a number of ancient sites, indicating its widespread use in the ancient world ; for example, archaeological recovery at the Knossos site on Crete illustrates its role in Bronze Age Minoan culture.

The precise archaeological site of the city of Akkad has not yet been found.

Though there was no Bronze Age city on the site, archaeology has detected human activity that is evident from the earliest Iron Age, circa 1100 BC.

The site of the ruins is within the borders of this village, though the expansion of the Limassol tourist area has threatened the ruins: it is speculated that some of the hotels are on top of the Amathus necropolis.

Archaeology has uncovered remains at the site dating to approximately 3000 BC.

Whilst Anah has thus retained its name for forty-two centuries the site is variously described.

Recently, Abandan has been the site of major labor activity as workers at the oil refineries in the city have staged walkouts and strikes to protest non-payment of wages and the political situation in the country.

A second temple has also been located at the archaeological site of Metropolis in what is now Western Turkey.

His home a few kilometers outside Banyuls, also the site of his final resting place, has been turned into a museum where a number of his works and sketches are displayed.

The site has a 90, 000-square foot heated indoor practice facility, Three outdoor NFL natural turf football fields that feature an immediate gravity drainage system, and a complete kitchen and dining facilities for team meals.

The state has been a frequent spring training site since 1946.

He also has a residence next to Canterbury Cathedral on the site of the medieval Archbishop's Palace.

It is thus the first site where the archaeology confirms the continuity of Mycenaean and Classical Greek religion, which has been inferred from the presence of the names of Classical Greek divinities on Linear B texts from Pylos and Knossos.

The description of the Uppsala temple is one of the most famous excerpts of the Gesta, however as no archaeological site has ever been found, one can wonder if Adam ’ s description is linked to reality.

The most representative site explored up to now is Knossos ( see Crete ) which has yielded not only the most various but the most continuous evidence from the Neolithic age to the twilight of classical civilization.

A map of Cyprus in the later Bronze Age ( such as is given by J. L. Myres and M. O. Richter in Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum ) shows more than 25 settlements in and about the Mesaorea district alone, of which one, that at Enkomi, near the site of Salamis, has yielded the richest Aegean treasure in precious metal found outside Mycenae.

It has been estimated that around 125, 000 pilgrims visit the site every day.

A cattle market has been held in Abergavenny on its current site since 1863.

A memorial plaque for the deceased has now been placed at the site.

The animation below shows two sunsets at a hypothetical site, one the day before the summer solstice and one at the summer solstice, which has a double sunset.

The atoll has long been a maritime hazard and is the site of numerous shipwrecks.

Burkina has been the site of several development success stories.

County judges, commissioners, engineers, assessors, and others who have lived in the area for a long time may have valuable knowledge regarding the site or opinions to offer from their varied professional experiences.

A quarry on the Lousberg, which was first used in Neolithic times, attests to the long occupation of the site of Aachen.

There was an artificial platform there and this apparent verification of Thom's long alignment hypothesis ( Kintraw was diagnosed as an accurate winter solstice site ) led him to check Thom's geometrical theories at the Cultoon stone circle in Islay, also with a positive result.

Due to the long radio aerials stretching from the wireless room, the radio station was moved from Bletchley Park to nearby Whaddon Hall to avoid drawing attention to the site.

When a column is too long to be built or transported in one piece, it has to be extended or spliced at the construction site.

Pregnant females spend long periods foraging at sea, building up fat reserves, and then return to the breeding site to use their stored energy to nurse pups.

The lactase promoter is 150 base pairs long and is located just upstream of the site of transcription initiation.

These accusations were rebutted universally — most prominently by Andrew Tanenbaum himself, who strongly criticised Kenneth Brown and published a long rebuttal on his own personal Web site.

Mong Há has long been the center of Chinese life in Macau and the site of what may be the region's oldest temple, a shrine devoted to the Buddhist Guanyin ( Goddess of Mercy ).

Merleau-Ponty emphasized the body as the primary site of knowing the world, a corrective to the long philosophical tradition of placing consciousness as the source of knowledge, and his insight that the body and that which it perceived could not be disentangled from each other.

The methods had been developed by the Romans in Spain in 25 AD to exploit large alluvial gold deposits, the largest site being at Las Medulas, where seven long aqueducts were built to tap local rivers and to sluice the deposits.

See the external link for a list of Church services in English ( link from the official site is obsolete and not being updated for long ).

The long green strip is Tilla Durieux Park, the site of the former Potsdamer Bahnhof and its approaches.

The former Grand Hotel has been converted into apartments and the long derelict yacht club site has now been filled by a modern block of flats.

The text then states that Samuel erected a large stone at the battle site as a memorial, and there ensued a long period of peace thereafter.

Other artifacts excavated on site made of animal, fish, bird, and whalebone, whale and walrus ivory, and killer whale teeth included awls, needles, knives, beads, adzes, shovels, small bowls and, most remarkably, ivory pins up to long.

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Gwyn Jones notes that " no true town has been found and excavated " and that the identification of the site in Elbląg with Truso is based on " finds of Norse weapons " and the presence of " a large Viking Age cemetery " nearby, According to Mateusz Bogucki " by now, there is no doubt that the settlement really is Wulfstan's Truso " The Elbląg Museum brochure: Truso-A Discovered Legend, by Marek F Jagodziński, describes a large number of buildings found during the recent excavations, with burnt remains of posts suggesting buildings of c. 5 x 10 m and long houses of about 6 x 21 m.

One of the few reasonably consistent pieces of information is that exploration voyages from the main base sailed down both the east and west coasts of the land ; this was one of the factors which helped archaeologists locate the site at L ' Anse Aux Meadows, at the tip of Newfoundland's long northern peninsula.

Little more was done for a long time, although in 1914 a workman found another altar at the site, set up by the civilians living at the fort in honour of the Divine House and Vulcan.

An earthquake damaged the Abbey in 1349, and although the site was rebuilt it marked the beginning of a long period of decline.

For instance, Experts Exchange, a programmers ' discussion site, for a long time used expertsexchange. com, but ultimately changed the name to experts-exchange. com.

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.

Three miles ( 5 km ) from Norwood on this long level is Bulls Bridge Junction, once the site of the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company's main dockyard.