Even the oldest texts we know – which are temple lists from antique cities in Mesopotamia – can be characterized by a certain significance, i.e. by the aim of demonstration.
On the west side, up the hills, are the two antique cities of Buda and Óbuda, with the Castle District, its narrow and romantic streets, and its amazing restaurants and terraces looking over the Danube.
He is the author of Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontius's Life and the Late Antique City.
The city in Turkey now known as Konuralp was important during the Ottoman period, and is the site of the antique city of Prusias ad Hypium, with a rich historical past in the Hellenistic period.
If you're hungry, grab a bite at b (1501 Bolton Street; 410-383-8600; www.b-bistro.com), a simple bistro opened by a brother of Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan. 2 p.m. 11) ANTIQUE CITY For unique antiques, skip the ho-hum stores in Baltimore and head west to Ellicott City (www.ellicottcity.net), an 18th-century mill town about 25 minutes by car from downtown.
I was touched to see him so confident that the world's first city might well have been Eridu, in what is today southern Iraq, as this brought back memories of my getting to this antique city buried in scorching desert sands a few months before George W Bush and Tony Blair launched their assault on the venerable, if much younger, city of Baghdad.
It's difficult to nail down the last time this antique city was considered cutting edge.
In an antique city state, or a modern municipality, shame is the penalty for the violation of ethics; in larger organisms like the mega Nation-State, with a smaller role for face to face encounters, shame ceases to play its duties of disciplinarian.
The "pagan" and Christian tension in the late antique Egyptian city of Alexandria is real, even if many of the facts of the movie are not.
The show is regarded as the most established and esteemed of the increasing number of stylish big-ticket antiques bazaars in cities across the country.
Most of the thousands of Persian rugs, boxloads of glassware and pieces of furniture have doubled and tripled in price by the time they reappear, shiny and gleaming, in cosmopolitan antiques stores in cities like New York or Atlanta.
