Sentence examples for ancient footsteps from inspiring English sources

But hikers who explore this ravine follow ancient footsteps.

Of course gold is a lovely thing to receive, but frankincense is a more unusual and, crucially, less expensive way to follow in their ancient footsteps.

"In Elizabethan London it was possible to meet everybody, walk everywhere, be in touch with all human knowledge," he writes wistfully; in today's Elizabethan London, Sinclair does his best to follow in those ancient footsteps.

Like bloodhounds on the fading scent of an escaped convict, researchers have tried for decades to trace the ancient footsteps of the first modern humans who left Africa.

Following in the footsteps of ancient centurions, we walked west along the summit path, with Ullswater below.

On the Spartacus Road traced a personal journey to the Italian south in the footsteps of ancient travellers, while Alexandria was a meditation on going to Egypt and not being able to write a book about Cleopatra.

It seems that older academics are used to keeping students at a distance; the sound of diffident footsteps on ancient stone acting as a prelude to a soft nervous knock on a thick wooden door.

Chinese footsteps are ancient and unmistakable in Vietnam: Chinese characters, which the Vietnamese used in government and education for nearly two thousand years (until the early twentieth century), are still etched into faded facades; gabled Chinese-style roofs still dot the horizon; a few pagodas even endure in downtown Hanoi.

The British Museum is a similarly capacious place where you can wander from Africa to ancient Greece in a few footsteps.

One day we may even make it to (ancient) Rome, to follow in the footsteps of Caroline Lawrence's Roman Mysteries detectives.

Climbing the ancient heavy stone staircase in the footsteps of countless generations of visitors was exciting in itself, but the sheer size of the arena takes away what breath has not already been knocked out of you by the climb.