The site comprises more than sixty multi-ton T-shaped limestone pillars, most of them engraved with bas-reliefs of dangerous animals: not the docile, edible bison and deer featured in Paleolithic cave paintings but ominous configurations of lions, foxes, boars, vultures, scorpions, spiders, and snakes.
One of the center squares contained a newly discovered pillar with the most intricate bas-reliefs to date: rows of sinuous-necked cranes and snakes packed efficiently together, like sardines in a can.
Bones and beaks and claws were folded in red and brown sandstone, as in a bas-relief.
Here, bas-reliefs of apsara dancers and pillars enlivened with Sanskrit inscriptions celebrating good deeds take on a rosy hue.
Gwnaeth Jane Hutt AC y datganiad yn y siambr ar gyhoeddiad terfynol y bas-data gwybodaeth o gymwysterau cyflenwyr (SquID).
The altar's carved marble bas-relief sculptures commemorate victories in Gaul and Spain, and are among the great masterpieces of antiquity.
Find your way, though the police would rather you did not, to remote Abydos and its exquisite bas-reliefs honouring the god Osiris.
Could the bas-relief of the headless man, the vulture, and the round object represent the bird Garuda carrying the sun across the sky?
This archaeological site, the subject of The Sanctuary, by Elif Batuman in the New Yorker, consists of rings of monumental limestone pillars rivaling Stonehenge in size, carved with bas-reliefs of all sorts of threatening animals and dating from 9, 000 B.
At one point I stopped for a swig of water, and when I slapped at the whining mosquitoes that danced on my neck and hands, I slipped and slid over some tumbled pieces of rock, grabbed at branches to stop my fall, and landed just in front of a bas-relief of warriors, maidens and fish alive in stone.
Ils sont alors devenus des pays autonomes au sein du Royaume des Pays-Bas.
However, getting a college degree did seem to give those with BAs a better shot at higher-paying jobs.
Trent Johnston bowled Ireland's super-over, and Bas Zuiderent clipped a couple off the first ball to make the Dutch favourites.
For each euro that its roughly 100 Business Angels (BAs) invest, the Compete program co-invests two euros.
And despite the efforts of the Gabonese government to bolster anti-poaching patrols, according to Bas Huijbregts from WWF, the authorities are failing.
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There are many others like it such as Uber and Zaarly, whose success will benefit low-skilled workers more than MBAs and BAs.
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That sort of de haut en bas can get out of hand of course: one self-made man, Michael Heseltine, has been sneered at because he bought his own furniture rather than inheriting it.
Among the largest underlying components of XES, in trading today Basic Energy Services Inc ( NYSE: BAS) is off about 0.6%, Patterson-UTI Energy Inc. ( NASD: PTEN) is trading flat, and Hercules Offshore Inc ( NASD: HERO) is lower by about 1.7%.
The plan to drill through the Antarctic ice-sheet to sample the hidden waters of Lake Ellsworth in December involves BAS and NOC and other bodies and is led by a professor from Bristol University.
Reekers and Bas Zuiderent began the Dutch innings with a stand of 66 but they, together with South Africa-born debutant Eric Szwarczynski (10), fell to Dilhara Fernando during a spell of 3-27 from the paceman.
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And despite Bas Zuiderent making 67, they were all for 188 in the 49th over with seam bowler Blain taking 5-45.
"To our complete surprise, we found several red dwarf binaries with orbital periods significantly shorter than the 5-hour cut-off found for sun-like stars, something previously thought to be impossible, " the study's lead author Bas Nefs, from Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, said in a statement.
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