Incongruously, the ancient City Wall wraps itself seamlessly around the metropolis, one of the largest ancient military defensive systems in the world.
The mines in the south-west of the province were one of the ancient world's main sources of the metal.
The evening ends with a gourmet dinner under the stars, next one of the ancient temples, with performances from local dancers.
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Leviev is also moving beyond the ancient game of one-upmanship--and beyond the dirty business of diamonds.
Now, a team of researches from the University of Oxford and the University of Southampton in the UK has developed what they are calling the "Reflectance Transformation Imaging system, " which uses 76 lights to illuminate different sections of the ancient artifacts, one at a time, while an image is taken.
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The couple arrived to the sound of bagpipes at Middle Temple - one of the ancient Inns of Court - where the duke is an honorary barrister and member of the institution's governing body.
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The contrast between this innovative motorsport series and the rich ancient history of Rome is one I am sure the public and the media will be intrigued and enriched by.
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The ancient scourge malaria remains one of the biggest killers of children in the world.
The CNN story also notes that the idea of withholding sex is not a new one the ancient Greek play, Lysistrata, tells the story of women who organized a sex strike to end a war between Athens and Sparta.
The tooth is from a jawbone that was found in a cave near the village of Lonche, Slovenia and is considered one of the most ancient evidence of pre-historic dentistry and the earliest known direct example of therapeutic-palliative dental filling so far.
But the truth is, no one knows the secret behind this ancient mystery.
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Hillah is the modern location of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the hanging gardens of Babylon.
"Noh Mul had been one of the ancient monuments with the greatest tourism development potential in northern Belize, " the association said.
One is the ancient kind, a category which, in political terms, encompasses many of the incidents that politicians continue to fulminate about.
How many other bitter hearts will take up arms when an American army storms Baghdad, one of the ancient centres of Arab civilisation?
What you are left with, among other things, is one of the ancient cradles of civilization boasting historical architecture for tourists who want something a little different.
India, one of the ancient homes for polio, has mustered millions of volunteers to join a national polio eradication campaign supported by the WHO, UNICEF, Rotary, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others.
The manuscript on display is one of two ancient, pre-Christian era examples of the complete commandments.
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said the project aimed to secure "all the insuale (ancient residential areas) currently at risk in one of the most important places of cultural heritage in the world".
There is also racing of purebred Arabian salukis, the slender sight-hound that is one of the world's most ancient breeds of domesticated dog, as well as handicrafts displays.
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The abacus is one of the first mechanical counting devices, an ancient ancestor of today's computers.
Life in Olympos, one of the 23 ancient Lycian towns, some 100 km from Antalya, is simple.
It's one of the most ancient tools in our arsenal--our ancestors chipped the first ones out of rock more than two million years ago.
It is also one of the key ancient manuscripts that enabled Western civilization to awake from the dark ages and enter the modern world during the Renaissance.
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One hard reality is the emergence of transcontinental alliances of liberals and conservatives, undermining the ancient Christian principle that in each geographical area only one bishop should have authority.
This city of the Indus civilization was excavated in the 1920s and 1930s, spreading over an area of almost 600 acre and 10% of which has been excavated and was one of the most ancient planned cities in the world built entirely of fired brick in accordance to a carefully designed urban planning scheme.
Finish this dream trip on the greatest coastal course in the world, Turnberry's Ailsa, with its famous lighthouse, ancient castle and one stunning hole after another along the rocky coast.
The war the prosecution described was not one of ancient ethnic hatreds.
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