Sentence examples for ancient centers from inspiring English sources

Like his papal grandfather, who commissioned Michelangelo to reconfigure the muddy mess of the Capitoline Hill into the supremely beautiful Piazza del Campidoglio, Alessandro also had a taste for the city's ancient centers of power.

We observe regions of admixture at the interface between North Africa and the Arabian Gulf, and this is expected given a model of two ancient centers of cultivation with enough time to become genetically distinct.

Some of the footprints of selection reflect the history of animal movements by migratory farmers out of the ancient centers of cattle domestication as well as selection within the past few centuries for breed type associated with milk or meat production [ 2].

The city is an ancient center of trade, cradled by high green mountain slopes where coffee grows.

It's rooted in our respect of Egypt as a nation and ancient center of civilization, and a cornerstone for peace in the Middle East.

Now, in his 77th year, the Dalai Lama still considers himself a student of Nalanda, an ancient center of higher learning in Bihar.

Late last year the antiquities board began a project to restore the ancient center of Kifl, with the aim of earning a coveted designation as a World Heritage site by Unesco, joining three other places in Iraq: Hatra, Samarra and Ashur.

Our guide, Karma Tshering, graciously introduced us to the spectacular cultural and religious aspects of Bhutan by taking us to the Punakha Dzong, an ancient center of government and religion that was recently threatened by a catastrophic glacial lake outburst flood.

The state news agency said that the Syrian Army had made a "decisive attack" just outside Aleppo's ancient center, and that an operation in several neighborhoods had killed dozens of rebel fighters, destroying three pickup trucks mounted with heavy machine guns.

While he finds that this ancient center of learning is visited mainly by Egyptian middle-class families looking for a seaside holiday, Perrottet also meets some ambitious young Alexandrians who are pinning their hopes on a new archaeological marine park that may attract "rich European tourists" to the city's submerged cultural riches.

He explained that he had chosen Mr. Meier without holding a competition because the American had already won one in Rome -- the Vatican selected him to design the church of the year 2000 for a housing project in suburban Rome -- and because he was an acclaimed architect who could bring a jolt of modernity to Rome's ancient center.