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The ruins have been excavated at a site near the village of Kanakia of Salamis, a few miles off the coast of Athens.
Aelia Capitolina (; Latin in full: Colonia Aelia Capitolina ) was a city built by the emperor Hadrian, and occupied by a Roman colony, on the site of Jerusalem, which was in ruins since 70 AD, leading in part to the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132 – 136.
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.
Roman ruins at Abritus, site of the battle
There are a large number of archaeological sites which include the Minoan sites of Knossos and Phaistos, the classical site of Gortys, and the diverse archaeology of the island of Koufonisi which includes Minoan, Roman, and World War II ruins.
This town fell into decay ( possibly due to an earthquake ) and the Byzantine town of Chonæ occupied a site near its ruins.
Western pilgrims to Jerusalem during the eleventh century found much of the sacred site in ruins.
The crusaders investigated the eastern ruins on the site, occasionally excavating through the rubble, and while attempting to reach the cistern, they discovered part of the original ground level of Hadrian's temple enclosure ; they decided to transform this space into a chapel dedicated to Helena ( the Chapel of Saint Helena ), widening their original excavation tunnel into a proper staircase.
Most of the ruins that survive today date from the most intense period of activity at the site in the 6th century BC.
The site of the ancient city contains the ruins of a Bronze Age fortified city, which was part of the Cemetery H culture and the Indus Valley Civilization, centered in Sindh and the Punjab.
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.
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.
The island is chiefly notable for its " mysterious " prehistoric ruins, its once-extensive deposits of phosphatic guano ( exploited by Australian interests from c. 1860-1927 ), its former use as the site of the first British H-bomb tests ( Operation Grapple, 1957 ), and its current importance as a protected area for breeding seabirds.
* 1900 – Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
Following the defeat in 612 BC, the site remained largely unoccupied for centuries with only a scattering of Assyrians living amid the ruins until the Sassanian period, although Assyrians continue to live in the surrounding area to this day.
Akrotiri is a major archaeological site, with ruins from the Minoan era.
Today, the hill at Hisarlik has given its name to a small village near the ruins, supporting the tourist trade visiting the Troia archaeological site.
The site is marked by the ruins of the Ziggurat of Ur, which contained the shrine of Nanna, excavated in the 1930s.
In 1805 the ruins of this castle site were demolished.
A marker placed in the ruins of the Roman fortress at Gonio ( Apsaros ) in the modern Georgian region of Adjara claims that Matthias is buried at that site.
In the Saxon period, the ruins of a Roman temple-mausoleum on the site of the villa were incorporated into a Christian chapel ( Lullingstane Chapel ) that was extant at the time of the Norman Conquest, one of the earliest known chapels in the country.
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.
The ruins of Ctesiphon were the site of a major battle of World War I in November 1915.

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Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.
A new waterfront site for the bureau is now being built at Atlantic City, New Jersey, to provide the most modern marine testing facilities as a further tool to keep the sport safe.
This is particularly true in site selection.
It is usually helpful to make a sketch map in the field, showing the size and location of the features of interest and to take photographs at the site.
For site planning work, it is best to have a qualified and experienced park planner to carry through the study.
Water interest is one of the most valuable factors you can find for a recreation site.
If the site is on a reservoir, the level of the water at various seasons as it affects recreation should be studied.
The quantity and quality of water sources is often a big factor in site selection.
In the United States Department of Agriculture's Yearbook Of Agriculture, 1952, which is devoted entirely to insects, George E. Bohart mentions a site in Utah which was estimated to contain 200,000 nesting females.
The site of the oblong piazza is Domitian's ancient stadium, which was probably used for horse and chariot races.
The place is Camusfearna, the site of a long-vanished sea-village opposite the isle of Skye.
As methodology, ethnography is based upon long-term fieldwork within a community or other research site.
The life-size so-called " Adonis " found in 1780 on the site of a villa suburbana near the Via Labicana in the Roman suburb of Centocelle is identified as an Apollo by modern scholars.
AFI ScreenNation is a Web site featuring AFI-produced educational materials and tips for new filmmakers to share work, receive recognition and compete for prizes.
* Altenberg is also a lost town and archaeological site in the Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia
The relationship between the author and the editor, often the author's only liaison to the publishing company, is often characterized as the site of tension.
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.
It is unmyelinated, approximately 25μm in length and functions as the site of action potential initiation.
One such site featured in her books is the temple site of Abu Simbel in her book Death on the Nile, as well as the great detail in which she describes life at the dig site in her book Murder in Mesopotamia.
: Christie ’ s Murder in Mesopotamia is the most archaeologically influenced of all her novels as it is set in the Middle East at an archaeological dig site and associated expedition house.
The novel is most noted for its careful description of the dig site and house, which showed the author had spent much of her own time in very similar situations herself.
As South Australia's seat of government and commercial centre, Adelaide is the site of many governmental and financial institutions.

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