Sentence examples for inscriptions recorded from inspiring English sources

For many years specialists believed that the inscriptions recorded little more than the passage of time and that, in fact, the Maya were time worshipers; but it has been shown that certain inscriptions recorded the birth, accession, marriage, and military victories of ruling dynasties.

Several inscriptions record the dates of work on an order and the lengths of quarried stones.

There are at Epidaurus many inscriptions recording cures, though there is no mention of failures or deaths.

At Athens he is intrigued by pictures, portraits, and inscriptions recording the laws of Solon; on the Acropolis, the great gold and ivory statue of Athena; and, outside the city, the monuments of famous men and of Athenians fallen in battle.

Women and daughters had rights over property and land as there are inscriptions recording the sale of land by women.

His inscriptions record the re-institution of Hindu rituals in the Kailasanathar Temple that had been abandoned during the Muslim invasions.

The lack of inscriptions recording the events of this period may be either due to the fact that the Kaan dynasty was located elsewhere during this time or perhaps that the monuments were later destroyed.

Its name was derived from a toppled iron pillar (13th century) bearing a later inscription recording the visit of the Mughal emperor Akbar in 1598.

Among many peoples it has been the custom to preserve the memory of the dead by images of them placed upon their graves or tombs, usually with some accompanying inscription recording their names and often their achievements.

Three rough foundation stones with an inscription recording a gift to a Brahman priest dated from the early 5th century, found at Kutai, provide evidence of a Hindu kingdom in eastern Kalimantan.

The discovery of an inscription recording the visit of Ashoka, Maurya emperor of India from about 273 to 232 bce, to the spot he considered the birthplace makes it probable, however, that the legend was established at least as early as the 3rd century bce.