Although there is no cliff at the site where his body was found there is a very steep rocky embankment-which would have been fatal in the dark.

The Areopagus, the " mount of Ares " where Paul of Tarsus preached, is sited at some distance from the Acropolis ; from archaic times it was a site of trials.

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.

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.

It lies on the site where the Madonna appeared to Pietro Falco, healing his wounds.

* Pictures of the cave where it is believed by Christians that Jesus was buried and from which it is believed he resurrected and a picture of the remains of the walls of the Temple of Venus previously constructed on that site by the Emperor Hadrian

The harbour lies to the east of the foundation site at the original citadel on a hill overlooking a peninsula protecting the harbor on the south, where now are located the Quai de la Citadelle and the Jettée de la Citadelle.

One famous site where historical records have been used to interpret sites is Chichen Itza.

On 24 April 1826 over 1, 000 men and women, many armed, gathered at Whinney Hill in Clayton-le-Moors to listen to a speaker from where they marched on Sykes ’ s Mill at Higher Grange Lane, near the site of the modern police station and Magistrate ’ s Courts, and smashed over 60 looms.

Bridges employing only compression are relatively inefficient structurally, but may be highly cost efficient where suitable materials are available near the site and the cost of labor is low.

“ A visit to the ground has only confirmed me ,” Lucas wrote in 1921 ; “ and it was interesting to find that Mr. Apostolides, son of the large local landowner, the hospitality of whose farm at Tekés I enjoyed, was convinced too that the site was by Driskole Krini, for the very sound reason that neither the hills nor the river further east suit Caesar ’ s description .” John D. Morgan in his definitive “ Palae-pharsalus – the Battle and the Town ”, arguing for a site closer still to Krini, where he places Palaepharsalos, writes: “ My reconstruction is similar to Lucas ’ s, and in fact I borrow one of his alternatives for the line of the Pompeian retreat.

During the Second World War, Bletchley Park was the site of the United Kingdom's main decryption establishment, the Government Code and Cypher School ( GC & CS ), where ciphers and codes of several Axis countries were decrypted, most importantly the ciphers generated by the German Enigma and Lorenz machines.

In the 4th century BC, Alexander the Great commissioned Dinocrates of Rhodes to lay out his new city of Alexandria, the grandest example of idealized urban planning of the ancient Mediterranean world, where the city's regularity was facilitated by its level site near a mouth of the Nile.

Nevertheless, Constantine identified the site of Byzantium as the right place: a place where an emperor could sit, readily defended, with easy access to the Danube or the Euphrates frontiers, his court supplied from the rich gardens and sophisticated workshops of Roman Asia, his treasuries filled by the wealthiest provinces of the Empire.

The gorge is the site of the Cheddar Caves, where Cheddar Man was found in 1903.

At present () the museum is closed for refurbishment but there is a temporary museum, on the site, where all their ' star finds ' are displayed.

Its " self-appointed master librarian ", Jarkko Hietaniemi, often takes part in the April Fools Day jokes so popular on the Internet ; on 1 April 2002 the site was temporarily named to CJAN, where the " J " stood for " Java ".

The site is venerated as Golgotha ( the Hill of Calvary ), where Jesus was crucified, and is said also to contain the place where Jesus was buried ( the Sepulchre ).

The second, smaller dome sits directly over the centre of the transept crossing of the choir where the compas, an omphalos once thought to be the centre of the world ( associated to the site of the Crucifixion and the Resurrection ), is situated.

Dan Bahat, the former city archaeologist of Jerusalem, regards them as unsatisfactory, as there is no known Temple of Aphrodite matching Corbo's design, and no archaeological evidence for Corbo's suggestion that the Temple Building was on a platform raised high enough to avoid including anything sited where the Aedicule is now ; indeed Bahat notes that many temples to Aphrodite have a rotunda-like design, and argues that there is no archaeological reason to assume that the present rotunda wasn't based on a rotunda in the temple previously on the site.

In some cases where the radius of the substitutional atom ( ion ) is substantially smaller than that of the atom ( ion ) it is replacing, its equilibrium position can be shifted away from the lattice site.

Interstitials can form ' split interstitial ' or ' dumbbell ' structures where two atoms effectively share an atomic site, resulting in neither atom actually occupying the site.

Thus, when you have prepared your foundation and laid the floor, these can be trucked to the site and erected with a small crew of friends in a weekend.

Throughout the southwest Ancient Puebloan region and at Mesa Verde, the best known site for these large number of well preserved cliff dwellings, housing, defensive and storage complexes were built in shallow caves and under rock overhangs along canyon walls.

Each cell site will use a subset of these channels, and must use a different set than neighboring cells to avoid interference.

The British Museum has refused to return these artefacts, stating that the " restitutionist premise, that whatever was made in a country must return to an original geographical site, would empty both the British Museum and the other great museums of the world ".

Several of these are based on the site of The Kings of Wessex School, which is the largest educational establishment.

Beforehand various rumours arose including plans to return to ground-sharing with QPR in a new 40, 000 seater White City stadium, although these now appear firmly on hold with the construction of the Westfield shopping centre on the proposed site.

Along with the excavations of settlements such as Skara Brae, Links of Noltland, Barnhouse, Rinyo and Balfarg and the complex site at Ness of Brodgar these cairns provide important clues as to what civilization in Scotland was like in the Neolithic.

Eusebius claims, in his Life of Constantine, that the site of the Church had originally been a Christian place of veneration, but that Hadrian had deliberately covered these Christian sites with earth, and built his own temple on top, due to his hatred for Christianity.

It is known that Olympia originally housed far more of these statues, but time brought ruin to many of them, leaving Delphi as the main site of athletic statues.

The most famous of these sites is La Hougue Bie, a 6, 000 year old neolithic site that sits inside a large mound ; later a chapel was built on the top of the mound.

Of these, El Mirador, Tikal, Nakbé, Tintal, Xulnal and Wakná are the largest in the Maya world, Such size was manifested not only in the extent of the site, but also in the volume or monumentality, especially in the construction of immense platforms to support large temples.

Geotechnical engineering uses principles of soil mechanics and rock mechanics to investigate subsurface conditions and materials ; determine the relevant physical / mechanical and chemical properties of these materials ; evaluate stability of natural slopes and man-made soil deposits ; assess risks posed by site conditions ; design earthworks and structure foundations ; and monitor site conditions, earthwork and foundation construction.

Many of them also accept unique listings of caches for their site, but these listings tend to be less popular than the international sites, although occasionally the regional sites may have more caches than the international sites.

The first of these was the Mile High Center, which compressed the core building into less than twenty-five percent of the total site ; the rest is adorned with an exhibition hall and fountain-dotted plazas.

The British School of Athens excavated the Emporeio site in 1952 – 1955, and most current information comes from these digs.

There was, however, a considerable overlap between these types in use and the Corbridge and Newstead types are often found at the same site ( e. g. at Caerleon in Wales, Carnuntum in Austria, Carlisle in England and León in Spain ).

To date, the earliest copper smelting is found at the Belovode site, these examples include a copper axe from 5500 BC belonging to the Vinča culture.

Patients may feel these symptoms in areas far from the actual site of damage, a phenomenon called referred pain.

The first of these is reproduced at the bottom of this article and the second can be seen by visiting the relevant facsimile site ( see External Links ).

It is still not known how these stones were shaped and smoothed, lifted on top of one another ( they really are very massive ), or fitted together by the Incas ; we also do not know how they transported the stones to the site in the first place.

Among the largest and best-known of these structures is Monks Mound at the site of Cahokia, which has a base larger than that of the Great Pyramid at Giza.

A single site might cover many thousands of acres, and the birds were so congested in these areas that hundreds of nests could be counted in a single tree.

Most of these subpages refer to a site by one Peter Roberts, which has links and some more detailed information on the religion of the presidents, vice presidents, and founding fathers.

In his discussion of the importance of the ludi Megalenses in early Roman theater, John Arthur Hanson says that this particular festival “ provided more days for dramatic representations than any of the other regular festivals, and it is in connection with these ludi that the most definite and secure literary evidence for the site of scenic games has come down to us ”.