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It means that a public space in the ancient city of Seville can be unique and tailored to the way that a modern city works.
Where ancient Athenian tragedies dealt with the downfall of the high and mighty, their comedies usually ended happily.
This is me when I was seven years old standing in front of an ancient Buddhist temple with a monkey on my shoulder.
Take the ancient Egyptians, for example: very concerned about the body parts they thought they'd need in the afterlife, but they left some parts out.
Everybody underestimates how often they laugh, and you're doing something, when you laugh with people, that's actually letting you access a really ancient evolutionary system that mammals have evolved to make and maintain social bonds, and clearly to regulate emotions, to make ourselves feel better.
On the left is an image of the ancient ancestor of modern corn.
Now, take a look at the ancient ancestor of banana.
He told me that his graduate student Kenong Xu and himself were studying an ancient variety of rice that had an amazing property.
And there they are, inside, the Ahayu:da, 106 War Gods amid offerings of turquoise, cornmeal, shell, even T-shirts ... a modern gift to ancient beings.
Museum curators today did not pillage ancient graves or steal spiritual objects, but we can accept responsibility for correcting past mistakes.
Along the ancient path of the Monongahela River, Braddock, Pennsylvania sits in the eastern region of Allegheny County, approximately nine miles outside of Pittsburgh.
The ancient Greeks told us that the Earth was the center of the universe.
But what I loved about growing up in the Sunshine State is that for so many of us, we live with this latent but very palpable fear that when we put our toes into the water, there might be something much more ancient and much more adapted than we are.
So how do you make an apex predator, an ancient reptile, at once look like it dominates the system, but at the same time, look vulnerable?
The headlines called them savages and barbarians, because the image of one man overpowering another, killing him with a knife to the throat, conforms to our idea of ancient, primitive practices, the polar opposite of our urban, civilized ways.
The Islamic State beheadings are not ancient or remote.
Here we've reimagined the mashrabiya, an archetype of ancient Arabic architecture, and created a screen where every aperture is uniquely sized to shape the form of light and heat moving through it.
Working with an ancient material, one of the first lifeforms on the planet, plenty of water and a little bit of synthetic biology, we were able to transform a structure made of shrimp shells into an architecture that behaves like a tree.
Our ancient ancestors had many other ways of parting with the dead loved ones.
These benefits may have shifted ancient people’s thinking toward graves designed to honor the dead, and burial became more common.
The word cemetery, or “sleeping chamber,” was first used by ancient Greeks, who built tombs in graveyards at the edges of their cities.
The story goes like this: 1,500 years ago, a young man was born in the Empire of Aksum, a major trading center of the ancient world.
So no matter how ugly the world around us gets, or how many discouraging books on ISIS, the terrorist group, and not Isis, the ancient Egyptian goddess, continue to be published, I will keep building one colorful world.
This is an ancient partnership that we have just recently found out about.
How do we celebrate that ancient partnership?
In fact, we think that some ancient people who spoke languages that didn't have words for numbers greater than three used this sort of magic.
Long ago in Europe, ancient people also entered these underground worlds.
There, at the crossroads between Europe and Asia, the hub of the major trade routes of the ancient world, the Emperor Constantine built his city.
As the survivors fled the doomed city, they brought with them their precious books and their ancient traditions.
We're visiting ancient Rome to watch the Liberalia, an annual festival that celebrates the liberty of Rome's citizens.
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