Mister Bandelier saw the ruins of the ancient pueblo or village and said "This is the grandest thing I ever saw."

VOA: special.2010.07.05

Archaeologists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were stunned to find the ruins and the records of remarkable peoples and cultures--massive, complex empires in some cases, but some of which had completely disappeared from human memory.

十九和二十世纪的考古学家们,震惊地发现了,古代伟大名族和文化的遗迹，有些还是大规模，复杂的帝国遗迹,但也有一些就完全从人类记忆中消失了。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

In the Ancient Near East, destroyed cities tended to be leveled, and then a new city would just be built on top of the ruins, Tell Dor each one of those is called a tell These are mounds which represent the successive layers of destroyed and rebuilt cities.

在古代近东地区，被摧毁的城市一般较平坦，那么新城就可以建于废墟之上，这些土丘被称作“退尔“你们也许听过,这些就是小土丘,它们代表着一层层被摧毁又重建的城市。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Visitors can explore the ruins of the buildings and the ruts made by wagons.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

The path leads to the ruins of a large village,named Tyuonyi.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

They named the ruins Cliff Palace.

VOA: special.2011.03.30

But these same rescuers scored a victory earlier Tuesday, when they rescued a 69-year-old woman from the ruins of the same compound.

VOA: standard.2010.01.20

Torrey says it was no small feat composing shots of the ruins without any tourists in the frame, but even more difficult was chasing the ever-changing angles of natural light.

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

Guide Joao Monteiro steps lightly amidst the ruins of a 16th century fort, on a hill overlooking the town of Cidade Velha on the southern coast of the Cape Verdean island of Santiago.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

But the economy was in ruins, falling faster with each passing day of the crisis that grew into the Great Depression.

VOA: special.2011.03.10

Farther up the path are more cave homes with ruins of small stone rooms next to the wall of the canyon.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

It was not surprising that the North showed little sympathy when the fighting stopped and the South lay in ruins.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

You can see many other ruins by following the more than one hundred kilometers of trails in Bandelier.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

But this logging also ruins the areas where Sami bring their reindeer to feed.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

There,he saw the ancient Greek and Roman ruins that also would influence his works.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

This stone ruins site,he says, speaks about the genius and wisdom of the Incas.

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

"Stone Offerings" The book,published by Lightpoint Press, offers a new take on the Incan ruins the enduring strength with lessons about and beauty of a city built in harmony with nature.

VOA: standard.2009.12.15