Sentence examples for ancient metropolis from inspiring English sources

Even the ancient metropolis of Babylon, the young thespian recounts, left little to no record of day-to-day life.

MONEY & BUSINESS Exploring Mexico's Riches From Teotihuacan, a ancient metropolis with imposing pyramids, to laid-back Isla Mujeres.

In English Journey, he rhapsodises about the very different urban expanse he found: "a genuine city, an ancient metropolis.

Flourishing in the 19th century as a major centre of the booming cotton industry, the modern city had come to bear little in common with the ancient metropolis.

A case in point is the ancient metropolis of Laodicea, in southwestern Turkey, where Turkish archaeologists unearthed a spectacular church dating to the early fourth century.

Since 1996 it has been working on a project called Rome Reborn, which seeks to rebuild much of the ancient metropolis.

This was a pattern of urbanism found in several ancient metropolises, including the Mayan cities of central America, and Sri Lankan cities such as Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa.

It is about an hour's drive from the ancient city of Kano, a sprawling metropolis.

Steven Hazard's "The Ziggurat" (1986), a Surrealistic etching depicting an ancient hellish metropolis, is timeless and powerful.

I was not surprised to see what a storm could do to a city, because for the past two years I had been reporting on Baghdad, and I had seen the way in which that ancient, wounded metropolis had been torn apart and ruined by the U.S. invasion, the looting in its aftermath, and the bungled occupation.

I would not have enjoyed living in Teotihuacan, given all the human and animal sacrifice believed necessary to keeping the cosmic wheels of nature and civilization oiled and turning in that ancient Mesoamerican metropolis, just outside modern Mexico City.