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Word: 90m (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2001-2001
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...main entrance is marked by the remains of a portico - eight limestone pillars, today half submerged in the sand - that stands in front of a peristyle hall whose high masonry walls are inset with false windows. This entrance hall in turn opens onto a vast ovoid, some 90m across, that formed the sanctuary itself. The ovoid is enclosed by a thick, curving wall of limestone blocks covered with inscriptions, some of which are more than 12m long. The afsm team believes the remains of the wall, along with additional inscriptions, extend more than 9m beneath the sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searching for Sheba | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

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