Sentence examples for monumental cities from inspiring English sources
It is an easy day trip and walking around the pyramids, temples and ancient murals you get a sense of the vastness of the Aztecs' monumental cities.
Unlike the Greeks and Romans, the Etruscans left neither great literature nor evidence of monumental cities. Apart from vast tombs, their main legacy was artistic, notably bronze and terra-cotta sculptures and painted ceramics.
All around a sphere that could now be mentally embraced, missionaries, collectors, travelers, historians, and artists felt under the power of novel creations: body painting, gold byobu, intricate sculptures, but also turquoise masks, feather mosaics, painted manuscripts, fish-bone necklaces, ivory spoons, carved temples, monumental cities, and so on.
A monumental city with a wealth of artistic interest, León attracts large numbers of tourists.
A monumental city-planning scheme is to fill in a vast portion of Tokyo Bay & erect a twin city to Tokyo.
The new excavations, Dr. Gibson said, have turned up remains of a monumental city wall and an imposing solidly constructed building.
A monumental city gate, while sometimes serving a commemorative purpose, differs from an arch in being part of the defenses of the city.
The metropolitan parts of México state also contain notable preconquest ruins, among them Tenayuca, Acatzingo, and the great monumental "City of the Dead," Teotihuacán (designated a World Heritage site in 1987).
In Morgan Large's striking design, it unfolds fluently on the thrust stage which has become an octagonal, geometrically tiled piazza, with the characters emerging through the double doors of a monumental city wall.
The state contains many preconquest ruins, among them Tenayuca, Acatzingo, and the monumental city of Teotihuacán; the latter, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987, is situated about 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Mexico City.
Twenty-five hundred yeago ago, the Zapotec people built Monte Albán, a monumental city on a hill outside town; they worshipped a bat god and a human-jaguar-snake god, who brought rain and lightning.
