Archeologists digging beneath the war rubble of central Beirut have found the remains of nearly 5,000 years of successive civilizations.

Picard listened as Jee and Sherd reported that the city appeared to have been unearthed and reconstructed by no fewer than three successive civilizations--each, in its own turn, entombed by the same volcano.

Elne is the oldest town in Roussillon and since it is situated on the way towards the Iberian peninsula, successive civilisations have left their traces.

Nature, luck and canny political stewardship have produced a calm, safe country, despite Tunisia having been the subject of fights between successive great civilisations.

Artifacts from successive civilizations that populated the area also exist.

Some 25 years ago, Mr. Khoudary began collecting relics that successive civilizations left behind in Gaza, artifacts unearthed by construction workers or winter rains or rolled ashore by rough seas.

Iraq has been home to continuous successive civilizations since the 6th millennium BC.

Inhabited since the Neolithic age, it witnessed the arrival of successive civilizations, from Phoenicians and Crusaders to Ottoman Turks.

The vestiges from their capital which reached our day bring together remains from several successive civilizations.

Unable to travel backwards in time, they jump forward in time multiple times in the hope that successive civilizations of the far future may have invented a backwards-traveling time machine.