Sentences with phrase «ancient civilizations on»

Last year, after U.S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican from California, asked members of a NASA panel to comment on whether there were ancient civilizations on Mars's surface, NASA project scientist Ken Farley diplomatically stated that there was no such evidence, and that its existence would be «extremely unlikely.»

Players will be taking the role of the co-pilot, a member of the retrieval team sent to recover fragments of the mysterious Phobos satellite, believed to hold clues to the possibility of an ancient civilization on Mars.

The rounded grid in The Fall (Vicalvaro 3), resembles an ancient civilization on the moon, though the artist's website describes it as an area outside Madrid where development stalled due to 2008 economic collapse.

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His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

The ancient human civilizations gradually developed by the conserving and handing on of the knowledge and practices which had proved themselves in the past.

This event was of vast importance in the ancient world, not so much because of its direct effect on political or economic organization, but because of its effect on the minds of men and women who shared in the Mediterranean civilization.

I get a little tired of an ancient organization with a history of molesting children and setting people on fire trying to claim moral authority over a civilization that it threatens with annihilation.

Chinese civilization, on the other hand, retained something of the ancient feel for participation and belonging in the natural world.

As for Greco - Roman civilization, it was based squarely on slave labor, and one of the profoundest differences between the ancient Mediterranean culture and our own is that there slavery was taken for granted along with a growing consciousness of the moral compromise it involved with man's best ideals, while with us liberty is taken for granted along with deep ethical discontent at the parallels of slavery, or worse, which exist under the wage system.

Though an ancient evil, it began to receive intellectual defense more recently than most evils, for it was only a century ago that Count Gobineau published in French his four - volume Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races, in which he contended that color of skin determines mental and spiritual differences, and that mixture of blood produces degeneracy and the fall of civilizations.

He possessed an expert's knowledge of Near - Eastern civilizations, carried out studies of ancient Israel that commanded respect for Old Testament scholars, and wrote two probing volumes on the institutions and literature of ancient Greece.

They're a great source of food that many ancient civilizations have thrived on for years.

Many ancient civilizations in Europe and Asia survived on this thing for millennia so maybe it is not so bad after all, don't you think?

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

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of the city - state of Rome, founded on the Italian peninsula around 800 BC.

• A New Look at Old World Money For more than a century, archaeological excavations have uncovered evidence that ancient Bronze Age civilizations carried on long - distance trading of tin, copper, lapis lazuli, and gold.

Gaining a better understanding of the relationship between the great kivas and great houses in Chaco Canyon and the vestiges of similar buildings in 150 other communities scattered across the Four Corners region could help shed light on the rise and fall of one of the most fabled ancient civilizations in North America.

The independent institute, founded in 1917 and with a staff of 50 scholars, has a collection of 120,000 books covering Indian culture, Indus Valley civilization, Sanskrit texts, and writings on the Ayurveda, the ancient Indian system of medicine.

The team points out that the period of intermarriage overlaps with a time of huge social upheavals in India, including the collapse of the ancient Indus civilization — which thrived on the Indian subcontinent between about 2600 B.C.E. and 1900 B.C.E. — as well as large - scale population movements and the rise of the Vedic religion, the predecessor of modern Hinduism.

Fifty thousand years ago a great civilization flourished on what was left of ancient Gondwana — Mu.

Researchers have taken to the sky in an attempt to learn about what is hidden on the ground in Guatemala from ancient Mayan civilizations.

Below is a link with general information about the grass - fed trend and diseases in ancient civilizations, as well as an excerpt from a Plant Positive video which is generally more philosophical but does contain a couple points on health implications of grass - fed meat.

Trekking through the Amazonian jungle, I stumbled across an ancient training plan, written in hieroglyphics on the wall of an temple from a long lost civilization.

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

I like to give Bina Brianca credit, but that would not be fair on the many ancient civilizations around the world who have been wearing this wrap garment for ages.

Starting in ancient Egypt in 3000 B.C. and ending in a final battle on a futuristic Earth, players will have to have their fingers on the pulse of their civilization as the two races clash every 1,000 years.

In AGoD, you administer a clan of dwarves on a grand quest to rediscover ancient secrets of the old civilization and defeat a group of evil mages along the way.

[It alerts or signals the ancient civilization that buried it on the Moon that man is about to reach another more improved, advanced level of consciousness and intelligence.]

The constellation's formation matches a number of others indexed across ancient human civilization, constituting sufficient evidence to justify aging zillionaire Peter Weylan (Guy Pearce, heavily augmented by prosthetics, and likely some CGI) sending a team of scientists to the far reaches of the galaxy, trailing the origins of human life on a hunch.

Chased by a wacky pirate family and shifty, suspicious government agents, it all converges on the legendary floating castle of Laputa, an ancient civilization in the clouds which holds the key to great power.

Actually, it's a kind of reverse Krypton: An ancient meteor strike brought the miracle substance vibranium to the area, enabling Wakandans to build the most advanced civilization on Earth and cloak it under an invisibility shield.

It introduces them to: - The term «globalisation» - The spread of artwork from ancient civilizations such as the Romans - The impact of trade along the Silk Road - The impact of colonialism on the spread of artwork and art techniques - A comparison of very local artists such as John Constable with modern global artists such as Peter Fischli and David Weiss.

Map skills Prehistoric Man Customs / customs of the world Mesopotamian - First Historic people (also covered other groups in the region including the Phoenicians) Ancient Egypt Greeks Romans Middle Ages Introduced civilization of China and Japan (around Chinese New Year time) Rise of Europe Introduced civilization of India If, time, did a short unit on Economics at the end of the year.

For example, they are following an online training program on ancient civilizations, the multi-media approach of eLearning can help them determine its main takeaways.

Objectives: Students will understand the following: What archeologists can teach us about an ancient civilization The different purposes of the structures in Chichen Itza The culture of the ancient Mayan civilization The important role astronomy played in the Mayan civilization How Mayan civilization developed based on their environment Essential Question: What factors influenced Mayan development?

A great compliment to a lesson on ancient civilizations, Hispanic culture and heritage and geography.

Ancient China A British Museum site on this most venerable civilization.

Rather than idle away precious hours on trivial stories or randomly chosen nonfiction, reading, writing, and listening instruction would be built into the study of ancient civilizations in first grade, for example, Greek mythology in second, or the human body in third.

As a collaborative 6th grade teaching team, we decide on the unit of study, such a the U.S. Election, National History Day or an ancient civilization.

Matthew demonstrated his reading, writing, and research skills through a series of projects connected to a study of architecture: evidence - based essays pertaining to the architecture of ancient civilizations, based on the written work of David McCauley; a profile of a fictional architect, based on an interview with a practicing architect; and colored blueprints of an originally designed and furnished home, which he drafted to scale and executed to code.

Indeed, the team decided to refine the targeted breakout sessions by extending them to a second local museum (with a focus on ancient Egyptian civilization for non-U.S. history teachers) to provide a more experiential learning environment that aligned with teachers» interests.

This entire Unit plan will give your students or children the entire education they need on all things surrounding the history of this great ancient civilization.

«Now, at night, if you look out over the valley of Oaxaca, cradle of the Zapotec civilization, you will see stars above the dark and ancient mountains, shadows of pyramids on the ridges, maybe the moon rising behind — and down by the baseball stadium, the great golden chichis of Santa McDona.»

Biographies of individual women from ancient Western civilization are interspersed with entries on topics such as clothing, work, and sexuality.

Based on these and other analyses of monoliths in the area, Brophy's team concluded that the ancient builders of Nabta Playa possessed highly sophisticated astronomical knowledge, the type of knowledge we associate with advanced technology and civilization.Plato (c. 428 - 348 BC) writes of Egyptian masters presenting him with historical records extending back some 19,000 years: «Egypt has recorded and kept eternally the wisdom of the ancient ages, all coming from time immemorial when gods governed the earth in the dawn of civilization.»

I am fascinated by ancient Egyptian civilization and visiting the monuments in the Nile Valley is one of things on my to - do list.

Great Danes are actually not Danish but date back some 3000 years to ancient Egypt where similar giant dogs have been depicted on monuments and throughout various civilizations in history!

Days 10: Merida & Cancun Caravan's ancient civilizations of Mexico tours end in the world famous city of Cancún on the Yucatán peninsula.

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.

We will continue to Maras Town, where we can see some ancient farming paths to the village on our way to Las Salineras, the salt mines that have existed since the Inka civilization.