• The streets have ancient monuments and dusty history to rival Cairo, without the grinding traffic or pollution.

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  • "Noh Mul had been one of the ancient monuments with the greatest tourism development potential in northern Belize, " the association said.

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  • The 350 acre (141 hectare) former airfield contains 19 Grade II listed buildings, while 16 Scheduled Ancient Monuments have also been classified.

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  • There are also two ancient monuments, Queen Charlotte's Cottage and Kew Palace.

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  • Ancient monuments and museums are being restored, and various replicas of Buddhist and Tang heritage are being constructed to help Chinese tourists rediscover their national heritage.

    BBC: China��s ancient capital rises again

  • Viking runes on the ancient monuments in Orkney were once graffiti.

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  • The skyline of the city, famous for its citadel and ancient monuments, is changing rapidly, with new hotels being built to accommodate visitors form Iraq and beyond.

    BBC: Iraq 10 years on: Good times in Kurdish Irbil

  • The historic environment includes historic buildings, ancient monuments (such as castles, abbeys, standing stones and industrial remains), shipwreck sites, archaeological sites, and historic parks, gardens and landscapes.

    BBC: Communities, Equality and Local Government Committee

  • Almost a billion "points" were collected during the Baillie survey and this raw data was processed to create high-resolution models showing field boundaries, walls and ancient monuments.

    BBC: Website reveals hidden landscape in Caithness

  • In 1913 he got the Ancient Monuments and Amendments Act passed, which for the first time gave the government powers to act directly when a historic site was under threat.

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  • The aim of the project, which is taking place in cities across the continent, is to sensitise people to the meaning of cultural heritage and interest them in the preservation of ancient monuments.

    BBC: Berlin��s monuments polarise

  • As the plans for the High Dam were drawn up, worldwide attention focused on the many valuable and irreplaceable ancient monuments that would be destroyed by the waters of Lake Nasser.

    BBC: Abu Simbel: The great temple of Egypt

  • The sprawling estate on the Cornish side of the River Tamar is a handful, with 55 Grade I and II structures and four ancient monuments, four beaches and a deer park.

    BBC: Historic Mount Edgcumbe's uncertain future

  • With regards to the situation in Mali, President Sall and the Director-General condemned the destruction of ancient monuments and cultural heritage, which beyond Mali, is a great loss for humanity as a whole.

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  • For those who like their historic buildings to come in the shape of stately homes, ancient monuments and places of worship, it's probably no compensation to hear the awesome propeller is housed in a cathedral-like chamber.

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  • The city boasts an impressive array of ancient monuments and priceless artefacts, including its striking earthen mosques -- made from mud and wood -- and a vast trove of scholarly manuscripts held in public and private collections.

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  • The applications were opposed by the Victorian Society, the Council for British Archaeology, The Ancient Monuments Society, SAVE Britain's Heritage, The Conservation Officer, the Highways Agency, many residents of Balkerne Gardens as well as the Balkerne Tower Trust.

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  • The first important thing about the Parthenon is that, unlike most ancient Greek monuments, it survived more or less intact into modern times.

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  • Clearly, there is a growing need to understand how ancient structures and monuments respond to faulting and ground shaking.

    UNESCO: Tales set in Stone: learning from ancient earthquakes

  • It is one of three options being explored by the Royal Commission of the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS).

    BBC: RCAHMS merger with Historic Scotland mooted

  • The capital, Bangkok, combines the modern skyscrapers of a bustling Asian metropolis with the ancient temples and monuments of previous Thai civilizations, dating back hundreds of years.

    CNN: Country profile: Thailand

  • Mr Crawford, who wrote the guide, is communications manager at the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) and Mr Nazir an artist and designer with Glasgow's BlackHearted Press.

    BBC: Scottish history told in graphic novel-style guide

  • And one of the best ways to examine the writing has been using night photography which was the focus of BBC TV series Hidden Histories, following the everyday work of Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.

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  • John Sheriff, an investigator with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland, said it was impossible to date the stone precisely but it is very likely to be neolithic or Bronze Age, and could "easily" be 4, 000 years old.

    BBC: Human remains found in Bronze Age pots

  • The pyramid is the biggest and most famous of the Giza monuments and is the last of the seven wonders of the ancient world still standing.

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  • The site has been under excavation since the late nineteenth century, so that all of its surviving monuments have been unearthed and to some extent restored, though its ancient harbor, the Lion Port, has long been silted up, leaving Miletus marooned miles from the sea.

    WSJ: 'Aladdin's Lamp'

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