Hanks said shooting the movie in the ancient city was complicated given the vibrancy of Rome.
The ancient city of Aleppo has been inscribed on the World Heritage List since 1986.
Tour guide Hussein Al-Ammari says an oil pipeline runs through the eastern part of the ancient city.
Perhaps the biggest tourist crowd is the shoppers attracted to the ancient city from Germany and Belgium.
Smoke from the burning sugar cane painted the ancient city of Luxor below with an eerie haziness.
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Only 2% of the ancient city has been excavated, but those buried historical treasures are threatened by encroaching development.
Smaller pieces better evoke the urbanity and refined aesthetics of the ancient city.
Incongruously, the ancient City Wall wraps itself seamlessly around the metropolis, one of the largest ancient military defensive systems in the world.
Each year, 2.5 million tourists visit the ancient city, which was buried under ash after Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.
Victoria enjoyed embarking upon this first-time photo adventure, hopping around the ancient city on the train with Buster, her canine companion.
The French people were enchanted with the ancient city and beginning in 1908 funded and superbly managed an extensive restoration project.
Curious residents and picture-taking tourists lined the streets of modern Petra as Obama's motorcade wound toward the entrance to the ancient city.
The exclusive experience starts at dusk when daily visitors clear out, and an archaeological guide leads the couple on a private tour through the ancient city.
On a June day, ten years ago, hundreds of officials from North and South Korea mingled in the heat, near the ancient city of Kaesong.
The artefacts were discovered by a German archaeologist in 1872 at a site in Turkey believed to be that of the ancient city of Troy.
Listed as an archaeological site since 1935, Babylon has been partially excavated over the last century, but much of the ancient city remains to be discovered.
Then there is the ancient city of Palmyra, another Unesco World Heritage site, whose ruins lay scattered across a desert oasis 150 miles northeast of Damascus.
The ancient city centre, with its Roman, Gothic and Renaissance slices, is a Unesco World Heritage site, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors a year to its narrow streets.
While many people still view the ancient city of Kathmandu as a mystical Shangri-la in the Himalayas, the modern reality of life in Nepal's capital is far from peaceful.
The prince arrived in Saudi Arabia after visiting the south of Iran to see the devastation caused by the earthquake which destroyed much of the ancient city of Bam.
The ancient city of Timbuktu is a UNESCO World Heritage site of huge cultural significance, but its carefully preserved heritage has come under severe threat amid the ongoing conflict.
The site of the ancient city, which is carved into rose-red stone, dates back 2, 000 years and is Jordan's top tourist attraction, drawing more than half a million visitors each year.
By the end of that millennium, however, Butrint was in the hands of the Romans who smartened up the theatre and installed (predictably) a new bath house by the ancient city wall.
At issue is the Palestinians' claim on east Jerusalem as the capital of the future Palestinian state and the Israelis' insistence that the ancient city remain undivided and in Israeli hands forever.
To the east of Bethlehem, chalky hills sink below sea level towards the Dead Sea and the ancient city of Jericho, immortalized in the Bible for its walls that tumbled under the blasts of trumpets (Joshua 6:20).
Designated a county constituency and containing a great deal more territory than just the ancient city, this seat was drawn to be identical to the City of Durham local government unit and its name distinguishes it from the six other seats in County Durham.
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Owing to the volatile security situation, it has not been possible to assess the extent of the damage to the ancient city of Aleppo and several other World Heritage sites including the Crac des Chevaliers, Palmyra, the Ancient Villages in Northern Syria and Damascus.
LUXOR, Egypt (AP) The terror lasted less than two minutes: Smoke poured from a hot air balloon carrying sightseers on a sunrise flight over the ancient city of Luxor, it burst in a flash of flame and then plummeted about 1, 000 feet to earth.
Now, 3, 000-year-old ivory artifacts recovered by Mallowan between 1949 and 1963 from the ancient city of Nimrud, in what is now Iraq, and likely cleaned by his famous wife using cotton wool buds and face cream, go on display Monday at the British Museum in London.
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