Sentence examples for layers of civilisation from inspiring English sources
Here you get a dizzying sense of the layers of civilisation and history that make most countries in the world feel like gawky adolescents.
I'd travelled to the Middle East and was fascinated, not by the Arab Bedouin culture like so many British travel writers, but by the inland cities of Syria and the layers of civilisation that are represented by somewhere like Damascus.
All this layer of civilisation comes to nothing at ground level.
Peel back a thin layer of civilisation, and what lies beneath is pretty frightening.
Palermo is not one city but a whole accretion of cities, Saville says, layer upon layer of civilisations - the most conquered city in the world and yet a city in defiance of defeat.
In the early 1990s he described himself as an "advocate of civilisation, definer of civilisation, teacher of the rules of civilisation…leader (possibly) of the civilising forces".
Surely, the end of civilisation.
Research libraries preserve the record of civilisation.
They suggest a failure of civilisation.
WHAT is the basis of civilisation?
