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This amazed the ancient Greeks, whose women led restricted indoor lives.
More than 1,000 ancient Scythian kurgans, or burial mounds, have been excavated, containing skeletons and weapons.
He says, "You know, look, I know you think this is repugnant, but it is no different from interpreting an ancient text or looking at a monument."
Perhaps the most popular resurrection theme, outside of specifically religious ones, is the one about the phoenix, the ancient story of the phoenix, who, every 500 years, resurrects itself from its own ashes to go on to live a life that is even more beautiful than it was before.
Ancient Egypt had such myths, ancient Babylon, ancient India.
Lion, leopard, hyena, wild dog, cheetah, ancient baobab trees that stand like cathedrals under the Milky Way.
About two and a half billion years ago, some of these ancient ancestors of Prochlorococcus evolved so that they could use solar energy and absorb it and split water into its component parts of oxygen and hydrogen.
While that was going on, some of those ancient photosynthesizers died and were compressed and buried, and became fossil fuel with sunlight buried in their carbon bonds.
Today's photosynthesizers, their engines are descended from those ancient microbes, and they feed basically all of life on earth.
Enough ancient history.
On the right, ancient Gothic, cut in the resistant material of steel by hand.
On some of these ancient RPN calculators, you've got an "x squared" button on it, will allow you to do the calculation even faster.
It just said, "Reminds me of an ancient mix tape."
So the ancient Greeks knew that dogs sent invisible signals between each other.
So Ocarina — (Music) — is based on this ancient flute-like instrument called the ocarina, and this one is the four-hole English pendant configuration, and you're literally blowing into the microphone to make the sound.
I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family.
Two thousand years ago, Galen, one of the most prominent medical researchers of the ancient world, proposed that while we're awake, our brain's motive force, its juice, would flow out to all the other parts of the body, animating them but leaving the brain all dried up, and he thought that when we sleep, all this moisture that filled the rest of the body would come rushing back, rehydrating the brain and refreshing the mind.
Aquarius, in some fashion, is a dinosaur, an ancient robot chained to the bottom, this Leviathan.
The ancient understanding that underneath their separate identities, all animals are one, has been a powerful inspiration to me.
Eager to find the ancient city, Schliemann tore massive trenches all the way to the base of the hill.
Of course, it’s difficult to be certain that these ruins are the true remains of ancient Troy, and scholars still dispute whether the Trojan War as described by Homer ever happened.
Regardless of its identity, thanks to persistence, a bit of faith, and a lot of research, archaeologists are bringing the long-buried secrets of an ancient, lost city to light.
Now, there is an ancient saying that for every disease known to mankind, there is a plant to cure it.
Now, you may not believe in ancient sayings.
This is the perfect marriage of ancient shamanic wisdom and 21st century technology.
["The ancient 'Lion of Nimrud' went missing from this city's national museum in 2003 (along with a lot of other stuff)"] This is also why we are now able to see the first self-driving cars.
Now, commerce is ancient.
Commerce is ancient.
It's possible the fire destroyed part of the sprawling collection, but we know from ancient writings that scholars continued to visit the library for centuries after the siege.
In 415 CE, the Christian rulers even had a mathematician named Hypatia murdered for studying the library’s ancient Greek texts, which they viewed as blasphemous.
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