6 sentences with “inscriptions”

However, evidence (based on inscriptions) suggests that most soldiers were peasant conscripts with little or no armour and light weapons.

Images of St John the Baptist and St Stephen were also discovered, wrapped in rich robes and flanked by inscriptions in Greek and the ancient Nubian language.

Most important to our knowledge of these peoples, they created the only known written language in the western hemisphere; researchers have made much progress in interpreting the inscriptions on their temples and pyramids.

Excavations in the Jeha area reveal temples and altars, monumental inscriptions, human and animal images moulded in clay, and a large number of stylised works that attest to the high degree of civilisation achieved long before Christianity took root on Egyptian soil.

The inscriptions also depict a human figure with a plough and archers wounding an animal. The interpretation of the archaeologists is that these figures are a representation of the phases of agricultural life, as well as being linked to religious rites and ceremonies.

Despite the corrosion of the metal at the time of the find, it was determined that one of its inscriptions contained references to the calendar of Gemini of Rhodes (77 BC): the Sun, Venus, the lunar timetable and other details. Solla Price, an archaeologist, determined that this machine "looks very much like" a clock. When was it built? Between 82 and 65 BC.