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How to use the word Antiquities in a Sentence?

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Amman was one of the biggest Roman cities and it has one of the largest baths ... Wherever one excavates in Amman, antiquities can be found.

Yazid Elayan

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We will balance the needs of the city - to protect it from flooding - to preserving antiquities under the streets, amman was one of the biggest Roman cities and it has one of the largest baths ... Wherever one excavates in Amman, antiquities can be found.

Yazid Elayan

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Motivated by financial gain, publicity and self promotion, Elgin deployed illegal and untoward measures to extract from Greece the Sculptures of the Parthenon and a plethora of other antiquities in a blatant act of serial theft.

Culture Minister Lina Mendoni

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

They wanted us to tell them the number of antiquities and we ignored their request, but some days later they came and started breaking the antiquities, these antiquities are the national treasure and the history of our country and show who lived in this country.

Sherazuddin Saifi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

( The) Ministry of Antiquities and the Egyptian government have procedures( for) checking any building before it is renewed or repaired, this sarcophagus was found according to regular procedures.

Aiman Ashmawy Ali

Found on CNN
5 years ago

National heritage wasn't an easy trip, to get people to reflect and go back, especially the antiquities. All the discussions that were about antiquity — this is not Islamic, this is Islamic — this is I think behind us now.

Prince Sultan

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

While Utah’s national monuments are a prime example of Antiquities Act Abuse, President Trump and Secretary Zinke are working to correct those past abuses and focus on the original meaning and intent of the law.

Orrin Hatch

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

A lot of collectors in Asia are still consigned to one area of collecting, such as Chinese painting, and with 'Curiosity,' we're trying to promote a more eclectic style of collecting and encourage collectors to be more sensitive to antiquities, say, or African art.

Nicholas Chow

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I would like to see it all reversed and for Congress to get rid of the Antiquities Act, tourists are going to pour in and destroy the land and other people won’t be able to use it.

Sandy Johnson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Related : 25 new' Dead Sea Scrolls' revealed The document indicates the payment of taxes or transfer of goods to storehouses in Jerusalem, the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Judah, according to Israel Antiquities Authority. The discovery of the papyrus shows that there are other artifacts of tremendous importance to our heritage that are waiting to be found in the Judean Desert caves, the world’s heritage assets are being plundered on a daily basis by antiquities robbers solely for greed.

Israel Antiquities Authority

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The profit derived by the Islamists from the illicit trade in antiquities and archaeological treasures is estimated at U.S. $150-200 million per year.

Ambassador Vitaly Churkin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The antiquities are then offered to collectors from various countries, generally through Internet auction sites such as eBay and specialized online stores.

Ambassador Vitaly Churkin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It was not easy parting with the coin, after all, it is not every day one discovers such an amazing object, but I hope I will see it displayed in a museum in the near future. Related : Archaeologists discover ancient Anglo-Saxon island in UK countryside It was quickly determined this was not just any coin. It dates to 107 AD and was part of a series of nostalgic coins that Emperor Trajan minted and dedicated to the Roman emperors that ruled before Emperor Trajan. The only other coin of this kind is believed to be the one held by the British Museum. Two other gold coins of this emperor have been registered in the State Treasures, one from Giv ‘ at Shaul near Jerusalem, and the other from the Qiryat Gat region, Donald T. Ariel, head curator of the coin department at the Israel Antiquities Authority, said in a statement. But the details on both are different to those that appear on the coin found by Rimon.

Laurie Rimon

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Our findings have demonstrated that this is a site of international importance, but its discovery and initial interpretation has only been possible through engaging with a responsible local metal detectorist who reported their finds to the Portable Antiquities Scheme.

Hugh Willmott

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Their goal is to sell these antiquities on the global black market.

Stuart Jones

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What is happening in the world, demolishing all the Islamic heritage, non-Islamic antiquities, is a bad image, the British Museum ... has been building this collection, without them we would not have any history.

Syed Mokhtar Albukhary

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

ISIS is arming its campaign of terror in part by selling the past and robbing future generations of our history, we must constrict the terrorists ’ ability to profit from the sale of plundered antiquities.

Deborah Lehr

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

After the gold treasure from Caesarea, this is the second time in the past month that citizens have reported significant archaeological finds and we welcome this important trend, thanks to these citizens’ awareness, researchers at the Israel Antiquities Authority will be able to expand the existing archaeological knowledge about the development of society and culture in the Land of Israel in antiquity.

Amir Ganor

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We have all the details on all the antiquities in Mosul, every single piece is marked, numbered and saved in our records, therefore, we will pursue all these antiquities.

The Prime Minister

Found on CNN
9 years ago

On repeated viewing of that very grainy video, we now suspect that there( were) far more originals in Mosul Museum than I first thought, whilst there was indeed a program to relocate antiquities to safekeeping in Baghdad, it looks now as though it didn't reach that particular museum.

Eleanor Robson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Francis Bacon

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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