Sentence examples for ancient canal from inspiring English sources

Napoleon personally investigated the remains of the ancient canal.

A 1969 CORONA spy satellite view of an ancient canal north of Nineveh (modern Iraq).

Conduction of water through ditches from streams was practiced widely in Southwest Asia, in Africa, and in the Americas, where ancient canal systems can be seen.

In some areas, the tells of ancient towns remain above the alluvium and allow a reconstruction of the ancient canal patterns.

The Sierra Azul proposal bears similarities to the established restoration of ancient canal systems above Lima, which aims to help the second largest desert city (after Cairo) cope with the seasonal extremes of floods and droughts.

Walk through a two-story Egyptian gate inspired by the ancient canal gardens of the Nile to an atypical English-style garden with Mediterranean plants designed by Penelope Hobhouse and a garden ruin inspired by the 18th century, designed by Christopher Woods, the executive director of Chanticleer in Wayne, Pa.

This paper describes the use of satellite remote sensing data to uncover an ancient canal-based tuntian system located in an oasis agricultural landscape adjacent to the ancient Kingdom of Loulan at the southern margin of the Tarim Basin.

What does inspire me are Chesley Bonestell's paintings of unimaginably ancient canals, still greening the martian desert, their Ozymandian builders otherwise long forgotten (Fig. 3).

The first is Xochimilco, a network of ancient canals and gardens at the city's southern edge, easily reached by subway or taxi.

As a finance official in this town of ancient canals and textile factories, he got to hand out shopping vouchers worth nearly $30 apiece to 20 elderly residents.

Correction: June 17 , 2002 Monday A report by The Associated Press in the National Briefing column on June 7 about the discovery of ancient canals in Florida referred incorrectly to their significance.