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And they are the descendants of the ancient Tairona civilization, the greatest goldsmiths of South America, who in the wake of the conquest, retreated into this isolated volcanic massif that soars to 20,000 feet above the Caribbean coastal plain.
What do Harry Potter, Katniss Everdeen, and Frodo all have in common with the heroes of ancient myths?
Many popular books and movies follow this ancient formula pretty closely.
He concluded that his response was an ancient reaction unaffected by the nuances of modern civilization.
These ancient humans lived between the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn, a region saturated by the Sun's UV-carrying rays.
Way before the first selfie, the ancient Greeks and Romans had a myth about someone a little too obsessed with his own image.
Historians have suggested that the tale of Sisyphus may stem from ancient myths about the rising and setting sun, or other natural cycles.
The people of this ancient land embraced me in their limitless love, and I've learned from these people that neither power nor poverty can make your life more magical or less tortuous.
It's the most common insect vector of diseases, not just Zika but dengue, Chikungunya, West Nile virus and that ancient plague, yellow fever.
It's an ancient and versatile material.
So why would people of action focus so much on an ancient philosophy?
The reddish stuff that's above and below those channels, those are ancient soil deposits.
In ancient Greece, when anyone from slaves to soldiers, poets and politicians, needed to make a big decision on life's most important questions, like, "Should I get married?" or "Should we embark on this voyage?"
From the oracle bones of ancient China to ancient Greece to Mayan calendars, people have craved for prophecy in order to find out what's going to happen next.
It turns out that the oracle of ancient Greece holds the secret key that shows us the path forward.
Because like all ancient villages, Villagrande couldn't have survived without this structure, without its walls, without its cathedral, without its village square, because defense and social cohesion defined its design.
In the early 20th century, archaeologists discovered hundreds of statues and artifacts at the ancient city of Hatra, in northern Iraq.
And these identities are based on myths, typically about ancient, primordial origins.
Origin stories are usually recently created fictions of ancient belonging, and they're absurd given the complexity of humanity and our vastly interconnected, even if very unequal world.
And today we see claims to tradition that claim to be ancient changing rapidly in front of our eyes.
They don't like others talking critically about what they see as their ancient culture or using its images or caricaturing it or drawing cartoons about it.
But the people making the strongest possible claims about ancient, timeless Hindu religion are dressed in brown shorts and white shirts while claiming, oddly, to be the original Aryan race, just like the violent Salafi jihadis who make their claims about their primordial religion while dressed in black military uniforms and wearing balaclavas.
Now, culture isn't just about language, food, clothing and music, but gender relations, ancient monuments, a heritage of sacred texts.
During one of those trips, in the remote, southeast region of Kédougou I rediscovered an ancient grain called fonio that had all but disappeared from the urban Senegalese diet.
Once a popular grain on much of the continent, fonio was grown all the way to ancient Egypt, where archaeologists found grains inside pyramids' burial grounds.
In that ancient culture's mythology, the entire universe sprouted from a seed of fonio.
Imagine that fonio is consumed all across the globe as other popular ancient grains.
And finally, we need good built projects that prove you can build with an ancient material in a very modern way.
What was possible that long ago is possible today as well, and we can apply all our technical know-how to these ancient materials so that it meets our needs and our dreams.
I am very proud to say that I belong to a long line of magicians, from my teacher, Sophiline Cheam Shapiro, to her teachers who were stars in the royal palace, to the ancient dancers of Angkor and to the primal villagers from which the art form originally took life.
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