Sentence examples for palace site from inspiring English sources

In Warsaw the Church favours moving the cross from its palace site to the city's St Anne's church.

Under Evans, the palace site at Knossos was heavily restored using the modernist material of choice: concrete.

Guidebooks claimed that a huge squad of men dragged the stone from the quarry to the palace site — a distance of 43 miles — in deep winter.

A few blocks east is the Mikhailovsky Palace, site of another act of czaricide, this in 1801, when Paul I, a son of Catherine the Great, was murdered in his bedroom.

The troops will also want to search and destroy the Abu Ghuraib palace site, which is a suspected biological weapons manufacturing facility and also home to one of Iraq's most infamous detention and torture centres.

Glass is known to have been made on the palace site of Tell el-Amarna, the residence of Akhenaton (reigned c. 1379 62 bc), and the number of fragments found in and near the palace of Amenhotep III (reigned c. 1417 1379 bc) at Thebes suggests that it was made there also.

Donald C. Haggis, an archaeologist and classics professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said the tablet discovery was "really exciting and important because we don't know much of the dynamics of these palace sites and the early phases of state formation in Greece".

The gathering was one of many held at palace sites throughout Tehran in recent years, as popular attitudes towards the machines have softened.

There are four broad categories of relics and historical sites: tumuli and their artifacts; Buddhist sites and objects; fortresses and palace sites; and ancient architecture.

In prose that veers well toward purple, the Emirates Palace Web site welcomes visitors to "an enchanting landmark that's a wonder to behold for all who venture through its magnificent gates... a majestic experience fit for a king and deserving of an emperor".

It also incorporates the remains of even earlier palaces and sites of settlement dating back 4,000 years.