Sentence examples for ancient sanctuary from inspiring English sources
The same year, an ancient sanctuary was found nearby and what little money was left was spent on its excavation.
Didyma, also called Didymi, or Branchidae, ancient sanctuary and seat of an oracle of Apollo, located south of Miletus in modern Turkey.
But all are hoping to meet the Rev. Paolo Dall'Oglio, the burly and dedicated Jesuit priest who has made this ancient sanctuary a center of Christian-Muslim dialogue.
But inscribed gold plaques found at the site of the ancient sanctuary of Pyrgi, the port city of Caere, provide two texts, one in Etruscan and the other in Phoenician, of significant length (about 40 words) and of analogous content.
Olympia, ruined ancient sanctuary, home of the ancient Olympic Games, and former site of the massive Statue of Zeus, which had been ranked as one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
The gray drizzle outside lifted and milky sunlight streamed through the high Gothic windows of Greyfriars Church this morning as the last chords of the welcoming hymns echoed through the ancient sanctuary.
The Hebrew-language designations for those who exercised oracular, divinatory, and ecstatic functions in ancient sanctuaries that were prominent cultic centres prior to the building of the temple, such as Mamre, Hebron, Bethel, Shechem, and Gilgal, were kohen (also romanized "cohen"), levi, naviʾ, and roʾe, corresponding to priest, Levite, prophet, and seer, respectively.
They are displayed, with models of the ancient temple sanctuary and stadium, at the Archaeological Museum of Nemea.
David Lynch's film "The Library of Mysteries" is projected in a white room with columns, a pastiche of an ancient Greek sanctuary.
The Church of St Pantaleon was, according to Zahariev, previously an Ancient Greek sanctuary of Asclepius.
The track is named after an ancient Greek sanctuary known for hosting the oracle at Delphi, who spoke for the gods and advised everyone from the ruling class to average citizens.
