Sentence examples for present ruins from inspiring English sources

Little is known about the prehistoric town, but by 2500 bc the city probably reached the extent of the present ruins and was fortified.

The present ruins date from the 13th to the 16th centuries, though built on the site of an early medieval fortification.

There has been a castle on the site since the early 14th century, when the Sinclair family, Earls of Caithness and Barons of Roslin, fortified the site, although the present ruins are of slightly later date.

Four decades later, with Congo again consumed by a more obscure but no less ruinous war, Mr. Peck's film provides a disturbing reminder of a turning point in history that helps explain how that African nation wound up on the road to its present ruin.

Aidan was sent from the Scottish island of Iona to bring Christianity to Northumberland, and Petts believes that at its height his monastery spread far further than the present priory ruins, with dozens of monks supported by servants and farmers.

The present-day ruins of Troy itself occupy the western end of a low descending ridge in the extreme northwest corner of the Troad.

Present-day ruins photographer Christopher Payne's New York's Forgotten Substations details the history and functioning of the now-decommissioned substations which used to power the New York City subway system.

Garrett Hardin summarized this issue for the present age: "Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons".

Nothing in the life of a modern state can be really secret to an intelligent journalist... .. the diplomat & the journalist are in fact both historians & have nothing but contempt for the mere newspaper scope," he said Asked about his work in medieval Italian poetry, he said that to reconstruct a 700-year-old sonnet from its present-day ruin is a true form of historical endeavor.

Nothing in the life of a modern state can be really secret to an intelligent journalist... ...... the diplomat & the journalist are in fact both historians & have nothing but contempt for the mere newspaper scope," he said Asked about his work in medieval Italian poetry, he said that to reconstruct a 700-year-old sonnet from its present-day ruin is a true form of historical endeavor.

For an instant our present, across the ruins of several decades, has rejoined that of an afternoon in the 1910s".