Sentences with phrase «ancient civilizations known»

The principles are based on recipes used by ancient civilizations known for their impressive health, average lifespans and high levels of fitness.

For centuries, the overgrown landscape has protected most of the remains of the Maya who once tamed it — yielding slowly to modern scientists seeking to learn more about the ancient civilization known for its sophisticated hieroglyphic script, art, architecture and mathematics.

Not exact matches

Visitors will have access to the ancient ruins at Mada'in Saleh, a relic of the same ancient civilization that built the better - known city of Petra in Jordan and a UNESCO world heritage site.

When gold futures hit an all time high of $ 1,913 an ounce last Tuesday, it seemed our modern civilization was no different from the ancients in its love affair.

Although the ancient Yemenite civilization which found its stimulus in its favorable climate and trade is no more, the latent human and natural resources of the country are still there and will come to the fore when they have security from foreign invasion and can introduce modernization and democratic rule.

Indeed, all we can know about this people is here preserved, for they left no monuments, or buildings, or inscriptions from which the archaeologist might recapture their ancient civilization.

Here, it seemed, was the quintessence of Western civilization, which we had taken for centuries as our standard of comparison, and suddenly we realized that the new Rome was no more a match for the barbarian than the ancient Rome had been.

stayed with the Roman / Greek stuff, you were no different from any ancient civilization and thus would not have risen as the superpower.

Did you know that in the ancient civilizations of Babylon, Egypt and China, they have found records of exorcisms performed on women in childbirth?

[1] The kingdoms of Napata and Meroe formed one and the same civilization, known as the «Kush kingdom» by their ancient Egyptian neighbors.

The inexpensive and widely known cabbage, a close relative of other leafy greens, such as broccoli, lettuce and cauliflower, has long been used as a medicinal plant by ancient civilizations in the past.

Barley was used by ancient civilizations as a food for humans and animals, as well as to make alcoholic beverages; the first known recipe for barley wine dates back to 2800 BC in Babylonia.

Content: Here's the History Channel's go - to site for everything teachers and students would want to know about ancient Mayan Civilization.

The Techichi breed is no longer found but was a companion dog to tribesmen in the ancient Toltec civilization in Mexico.

Sigiriya was the last stop of my travels in the portion of central Sri Lanka known as the «Cultural Triangle,» a group of ancient city and temple ruins that form the nucleus of the beginning of civilization on this small island located off the tip of southern India.

The ancient Maya created one of the world's great civilizations without any knowledge of metallurgy, and though they knew of the mechanics of wheels and axles as evidenced by their toys, they seem never to have utilized them in their great building projects.

Visitors to the popular resort area of Cancun are mostly looking for fun in the sun on Cancun's beautiful beaches, but many will be pleased to know that during their visit they can also learn about the ancient Mayan civilization that developed in the area.

On the Akumal area known as Xaac, are discovered ruins that show the activities of the ancient Maya civilization.

Once circular, it was known as Strongili, «the Round One», but some 3,600 years ago, at the height of the ancient Minoan civilization, a mighty volcanic eruption caused the centre of Strongili to sink, leaving a water - filled crater — Santorini's famous caldera.

Known for being one of the most popular areas in Peru, the Sacred Valley is the cradle of the ancient Incan civilization.

I don't know much about the ancient Maya civilization, sadly... It's great I find this blog post of yours!

Sample the cuisine at local restaurants and cantinas, explore ancient civilizations at the city of Tulum or get to know nature in one of Riviera Maya's many wildlife parks.

Total War, a series known for playing with history, allowing fans to take control of famous civilizations and ancient battles was now stepping into a world of fantasy.

Based on the successful multi-platform Spike TV series «Deadliest Warrior» that pits two of the most feared warriors civilization has ever known against each other, «Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat» is a disc - based game / TV show hybrid that combines the wildly popular downloadable console games, «Deadliest Warrior: The Game,» «DeadliestWarrior: Legends» including all downloadable content packs, new game features and exclusive TV show content.

All we know is that The Behemoth titled this upcoming project «Game 4» at the moment and it has something to do with monsters and an ancient civilization.

As a child I did not know that most of what I learned in school was second hand knowledge or information from the west and thought that whatever little I learned of the traditional Chinese civilization were ancient and primitive.

If you know anything about native americans from the southern tip Argentina to the northern tip of Canada, (both which are farther in either direction then Chile and Alaska,) there's two things that are striking very few city civilization like ancient Egypt or ancient India, and very few farmers up until the white men descended upon their poor ar — .

Known as geoglyphs by researchers, these complex geometric designs are thought to have been crafted by ancient civilizations centuries earlier, though their purpose, to this day, remains a mystery.According to Globo Amazônia, these latest geoglyphs were reported by road technicians who were conducting a geographical survey prior to the paving of highway BR - 429, a road which cuts through the state of Rondonia in the Brazilian Amazon.

We've been pondering the stars in wonder since the dawn of civilization; and stargazers were finding patterns in the sky long before the ancient Greeks described many of the constellations as we know them in a poem called Phaenomena from 270 B.C.

The earliest known reference to collecting fingerprints as criminal evidence comes from the ancient civilization of Babylon; documents from the era of King Hammurabi (1792 - 1750 BCE) indicate that criminals were fingerprinted upon arrest in the kingdom.