Sentence examples for old inscriptions from inspiring English sources
He also devoted himself to the renovation of many temples, taking an especially keen interest in old inscriptions.
Zadar, he said "is like a palimpsest — an old parchment with old inscriptions being erased and new ones inscribed".
Elgin was passionate about classical art, and, stating that he was concerned about the preservation of antiquities in Greece (then under Ottoman control), he secured permission from the Ottoman government "to take away any pieces of stone with old inscriptions or figures thereon".
In 1918 Lenin issued a decree that statues "erected in honour of the tsars and their minions" be torn down, and the "old inscriptions, emblems, names of streets" be changed to reflect the "ideas and sentiments" of the revolution.By using laws and punishments to change people's ideas about history, "we are repeating the mistakes of the past," says Mikhail Minakov, a political philosopher in Kiev.
The society felt that the world should know more about Javanese culture as expressed in the old inscriptions, statues, customs and temples.
On the western facade of the Reichstag is an old inscription: "Dem Deutschen Volke" -- "To the German People".
The lower house voted 260 to 258 in favor of the piece by Hans Haacke, whose dedication "To the Population" is meant as a liberal, modern-day counterpart to the old inscription above the Reichstag's entrance: "To the German People".
When the City of London Cemetery adds a corpse to an existing grave, instead of replacing the existing headstone, it swivels it by 180 degrees, and four-sided memorials by 90 degrees, so the old inscription faces away from the grave.
Except for names and a few titles, the oldest inscriptions cannot be read.
The oldest inscriptions, dating from the 6th century, are found in central Thailand in archaeological sites associated with the Dvaravati kingdom.
A team led by John Coleman Darnell, an Egyptologist at Yale University, came upon the older inscriptions in a dry river bed called Wadi el-Hol while mapping ancient caravan routes in the desert west of Thebes, the ancient Egyptian capital, and the Nile.
