Sentence examples for antiquities being from inspiring English sources

An even greater loss, experts say, is cylinder seals and other antiquities being looted from Iraq's archaeological sites.

IN 1752 Camillo Paderni, an artist who had been put in charge of the growing pile of antiquities being dug up at Herculaneum, a seaside town near Naples, wrote to a certain Dr Mead, who then wrote to the Royal Society in London reporting that "there were found many volumes of papyrus but turned to a sort of charcoal, and so brittle, that being touched, it fell to ashes.

Two headless Roman statues have been discovered holding up a medieval-era platform in Turkey — an example of antiquities being reused by later generations as humble building material.

Antiquities are found throughout.

Barbara Israel Garden Antiquities is your destiny.

Trade in looted antiquities is not new.

The antiquities were acquired by the British Museum in 1816.

"Alphabet" and "Antiquities" were the work of Thomas Jefferson Hogg.

Still, the sale of marketplace antiquities is booming.

But countries rich in antiquities are often poor in cash.

The trade in looted antiquities is, of course, as old as antiquity.