Sentence examples for preserved monuments from inspiring English sources

They tell a greater truth about fragility and time than perfectly preserved monuments.

However, inscriptions in the preserved monuments ascribe it to a Tibetan noble called Kal-dan Shes-rab later in the 11th century.

Stela 1 is the best preserved monument at Akte.

Stela 51 is the best preserved monument at Calakmul.

Stela 8 is a well preserved monument on the south side of Structure A-3.

Some efforts to preserve monuments become the very cause of the problem.

As well as advising on counter-insurgency tactics, they have helped with an array of non-military activities, from overseeing elections to preserving monuments and digging sewers.

These essays examine the global struggle to build a collective memory of the past by preserving monuments and artifacts, a quest complicated by varying cultural ideas about authenticity, and about the role of libraries, computers and literacy itself.

To that end, Bernard Weber, the Swiss-Canadian author and filmmaker behind the campaign, has said he hopes to open a museum with models of each of the sites, to publish photography books, and even to help preserve monuments, starting with rebuilding the Buddha statues at Bamiyan in Afghanistan that were destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban.

Of the millenarian monastery, the São Pedro de Rates Church remains and is one of the oldest and best preserved Romanesque monuments in Portugal and is classified as national monument since 1910.

The park service manages about 84 million acres and 385 areas throughout the country -- including national parks and preserves, monuments and memorials, battlefields and historical parks, lake shores and seashores, scenic rivers and trails, the White House and other historic sites.