Sentences with phrase «ancient artifacts in»

Somone posted a while back about the rather warm 2003 European summer revealing some ancient artifacts in the Swiss Alps.

[Contemporary Art Daily] In the largest police raid in China's history, police arrested 175 people for looting ancient artifacts in the Liaoning province... Read More

See ancient artifacts in the Lamanai Museum on site, entrance included.

The film starts off with title cards and narration (two signs of post-production add - ons due to lazy / bad writing), a story of medieval knights and their coffins being discovered in modern - day London, then introduces us to Nick and his pal, Chris Vail (Jake Johnson), two American reconnaissance soldiers scheming to find and sell ancient artifacts in Northern Iraq while on duty.

The team, led by Dr. Ladislav Nejman of the University of Sydney, has discovered evidence of ancient artifacts in a cave site in the Czech Republic, suggesting Neanderthals and modern humans occasionally traveled through the area 50,000 to 28,000 years ago.

The video introduces us to Eric Simmons, with his sexy bad Scottish accent, a well known high - altitude climber who is off to rescue his younger brother who went missing searching for an ancient artifact in the Himalayan mountains.

Not exact matches

They discovered several artifacts from what appears to be an ancient village, including carved wooden tools and bits of charcoal, in a thin horizontal layer of soil, called paleosol.

- «Based on what he knows at this point, Griffin [Robert Griffin, an ancient Egyptian history scholar at the University of Memphis] said he would hesitate to say the artifacts are definitive proof of the existence of Joseph in Egypt.»

due to racism, bigotry and ignorance, most modern historical books in the west do not or have not mentioned such historical facts bc for white men who compiled history books, any credit to any area east of Greece would have been too shameful, but again, when you read about ancient Persian culture and see it in action and look at their tablets and beliefs and artifacts and books, it's quite clear that the Persian Zoroastrian role is all over this....

-- Two evangelical archeologists have expressed caution in evaluating reports that ancient Egyptian coins bearing the name and image of the biblical Joseph have been discovered among unsorted artifacts at the Museum of Egypt.

A parallel to Africa's «blood diamonds,» where mines in a war zone are looted to finance military operations, ancient artifacts are helping to fund ISIS's reign of terror.

In a story that's one part Indiana Jones, one part Nana's craft day down at the local bingo hall, and every part bananas, Hobby Lobby — the giant arts and crafts retailer and apparent scourge of the global archeological community — is being forced by the U.S. Justice Department to return thousands of illegally acquired ancient Iraqi artifacts and pay a multi-million dollar fine.

The Green family, famed owners of Hobby Lobby who made headlines a few years ago for protesting the Affordable Care Act's birth control legislation, have a reason for acquiring ancient artifacts: They're behind the Museum of the Bible, a new, massive nonprofit museum opening in Washington D.C. later this year full of interactive exhibits, historical Bible - themed items, text and ancient items from Bible times.

Law enforcement officials say Hobby Lobby president Steve Green personally visited the United Arab Emirates back in 2010 with a consultant to take a look at more than 5,000 artifacts like cuneiform tablets and balls of clay with ancient seals, worth millions of dollars.

With that in mind, I have noticed that many, if not most new converts can have, in all appearances, a genuine spiritual experience before any high doctrine of «scriptural authority ever enters their head.Now, some may say that just how it works, first you crawl, then you walk... baby food, then the meat, but this is my point... the world is full of «spiritual meatheads»... there are so many believers who wdn't know an original thought, unless of course, they cd find the chapter and verse to unequivocally support it.Is it so difficult to comprehend how a collection of ancient documents may not be the final, complete and indisputable Word of God, but mere human artifacts, sometimes godly, sometimes not, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering.?

The stories give insight into the values of ancient cultures in ways far more poignant and illuminating than archeological artifacts.

«I have no question it is an ancient artifact from the first century,» said Eric Meyers, the Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor of Judaic Studies and Director of the Graduate Program in Religion at Duke University.

Reports: Iraq: Mosul, Iraq: Destruction of Nebi Yunis (Tomb of the Prophet Jonah) Syria: Ancient History, Modern Destruction: Assessing the Current Status of Syria's World Heritage Sites Using High - Resolution Satellite Imagery Report Report (PDF) Ancient History, Modern Destruction: Assessing the Current Status of Syria's Tentative World Heritage Sites Using High - Resolution Satellite Imagery Report Report (PDF) Azerbaijan: High - Resolution Satellite Imagery and the Destruction of Cultural Artifacts in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan Report

To ground the site's new visitors center in the spirit of the place, Adams suggested making a cast of the Sorg pot, a famous ceramic artifact found in the park, and incorporating its texture into the building's fireplace, to give a sense of an ancient hearth.

Mummies, Tombs and Immortality Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt explores Egypt's burial rituals and beliefs about the afterlife through a vast collection of mummies and artifacts.

During a four - year excavation of an Etruscan well at the ancient Italian settlement of Cetamura del Chianti, a team led by a Florida State University archaeologist and art historian unearthed artifacts spanning more than 15 centuries of Etruscan, Roman and medieval civilization in Tuscany.

Irradiation has been used worldwide to save documents such as ancient Orthodox Christian icons in Romania, cultural artifacts in Brazil and religious sculptures in France.

Herb Maschner, an Arctic archaeologist at the University of South Florida in Tampa, agrees and says the careful excavation methods and analysis serve as a good example of what archaeologists need to do to answer questions about ancient people living in central Alaska where the conditions for preserving bones and artifacts are «notoriously» bad.

Rose's team of archaeologists and geologists gathered more than 800 artifacts from ancient riverbeds in the Dhofar Mountains of southern Oman.

The collection includes stone tools and other artifacts, as well as fossilized bones of animals and ancient hominins, including the Neandertal bones that formed part of the sample used in three recent studies of Neandertal DNA.

Scientists have found a new organic molecule that may be the mysterious culprit that is turning some ancient stone tools blue and casting a blue sheen over other irreplaceable archaeological artifacts in an old armory in Verona, Italy.

«Most of the archaeological evidence for movement is based on artifacts, but artifacts can be stolen or copied, so they are not a real good proxy for actual human movement,» says archaeologist Doug Price of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who tracks ancient migration by analyzing isotopes.

To find the Philistines» origins, researchers have studied artifacts and remains from ancient Philistine cities in Israel.

Morelos was not a metal - producing zone in ancient times, and these artifacts closely resemble the bronze artifacts made in the Tarascan Empire of western Mexico.

Paleomagnetic dating — matching magnetic properties in the sediments surrounding a fossil or artifact to ancient reversals in the Earth's magnetic poles to determine age — later determined the tools had to have been made 3.3 million years ago.

I seldom go to church, and I often find myself agreeing with the likes of Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens that organized religions are mostly artifacts of premodern cultures that in ancient times created all - powerful deities to explain and cope with the unknown.

New diagnostic techniques revealed traces of blood (inset, in blue) in microscopic samples from ancient African artifacts such as this one.

Artifacts found in an ancient grave site suggest that one of the heroes of the ring was a woman

The Penn Museum has a large collection of artifacts from Ur, because in 1922, British archaeologist Leonard Woolley led a famous series of excavations there, a joint operation between the British Museum and Penn, bringing back precious stones and pottery, and uncovering an ancient human sacrifice.

A few artifacts with features that are reminiscent of this sculpture have been found elsewhere in ancient Malta, such as the fragments of carved beds and the terra - cotta Sleeping Lady of the Hypogeum.

German researchers at the University of Tuebingen (below) found a genetic motherlode in ancient Egyptian artifacts, including the sarcophagus (above) of a young girl.

In the most traditional sense, archaeologists» work might go like this: They'll go to an ancient site, dig a few trenches and systematically record all the artifacts and architectural features they found buried underground.

He added that on 11 February looters emptied a storage area in Dashur, an important ancient necropolis in the southern part of the famous cemetery at Saqqara, which contained large blocks and small artifacts.

The artifacts push the history of modern human behavior in southern Africa back more than 20,000 years, archaeologists report online July 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, forging a link between the cultures of ancient and present - day humans.

Craig, who specializes in recovering DNA and other molecules from ancient artifacts, would need to see more control tests to be convinced.

Of the 350 artifacts of Aztec culture now on display at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the most discomfiting is a two - foot - tall clay statuette of Xipe Totec, the ancient Aztec god of spring.

Artifacts unearthed from various pits at the site appear to share features that are typical of an ancient archaeological practice developed by the first farmers in Scandinavia.

From developing the first accelerator mass spectrometer for use in the biology field to tracking radionuclides from the Dai - ichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster, the Laboratory's Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (CAMS) has spent 25 years in the spotlight of not only dating ancient artifacts...

This week ISIS militants destroyed ancient artifacts at a museum in the Iraqi city of Mosul; aggressively raided Syria and are taking Christian hostages; and are invading Libya.

Professor Willard Libby produced the first radiocarbon dates in 1949 and was Radiocarbon dating is a technique used by scientists to learn the ages of biological specimens — for example, wooden archaeological artifacts or ancient

Hundreds of thousands of artifacts dating back as early as 15,000 years have been found at the ancient mound site of Huaca Prieta in Peru.

In the Season 2 premiere, Pope Alexander VI takes a new lover and throws a grand, pagan fete for the citizens of Rome when a cache of ancient artifacts is discovered; the rivalry between brothers Cesare and Juan spills into the streets; Lucrezia tends to her newborn child; now a pastoral priest once again, Della Rovere narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.

The Bears Ears National Monument is full of cliff dwellings and ancient artifacts on land considered sacred to tribes in the Four Corners region.

She ultimately decides to sign the Declaration in Death papers and as part of the process is given an ancient artifact leading to a hidden basement of clues, texts, papers, and notes her father left behind.

There are plenty of giggly dirty jokes, Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) and Robin (Cobie Smulders) engage in a wacky «hands on an ancient artifact» game, and Ted (Josh Radnor) develops hesitantly romantic feelings for another non-mother love interest.