Sentences with phrase «ancient past»

That intuitive ability came about from our long ancient past as a carrying mammal.

Christians, Muslims, Jews etc are still living in ancient pasts where ignorance ruled the day.

Because these samples were buried, they are believed to indicate the Martian environment in the more ancient past.

«The Great Wall» is set in an unspecific ancient past of Chinese history but, in reality, the movie takes place in cinema's future.

Now that it's noon you can either head into the local mines to help rid them of some nasty slimes and critters, hopefully finding some neat treasure while you do, or you can take a leisurely stroll about town, foraging while you do, looking for rare plants and fruits or discovering lost relics from the towns ancient past that you can donate to the local museum.

With this representation, the artist surveys the parallel cultural ancient pasts of Greece and China, simultaneously drawing our attention to the different treatment that antiquities have received in two divergent geographical locations.

still living in ancient past.

The sense of wonder in the face of ancient past has returned, last truly experienced in the company of Altaïr Ibn - La «Ahad and the Holy Land; now we behold Queen Cleopatra's Egypt.

It tends to exclude all who find the history out of which they live to be one that has broken the relationship to this ancient past.

The water from these two rivers redeems from barrenness land that would otherwise be desert, and creates a fertile valley from which one of the great civilizations of the ancient past emerged.

Dan, you must know nothing about the history of your church, ancient past or recent past.

Now we have technology and are more educated and knowledgable than those primitive tribes of the ancient past.

Our world today does not expect to find the answers to its basic questions by poring over the books of the ancient past.

These people did not appear remote or from the ancient past; they were my own generation.

The Reformation, Eire suggests, restricted the supernatural «to heaven and the ancient past.»

Attacks like this one just make it clear how stuck in the ancient past the Vatican really is.

Slavery, Racisim, and hatred of non believers is codified in both, and they both need to be left in the ancient past.

the bulk of the immaterial comes in fact out of Israel's ancient past, transmitted first orally and given... written formulation (first) by the Yahwist... Nor do we mean to say, then, that the story of Joseph came into being as a messianic message with the intention of treating Joseph as a messianic figure.

Modern Homo sapiens are remarkably sophisticated creatures, capable of writing symphonies, solving the Poincare Conjecture, and inventing Nutella, yet we carry around a number of fears that seem to be more characteristic of our ancient past.

According to my friend Richard Sterling, who has reported on Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos as a contributing editor, «The Burmese cook approaches curry in a way as constant as the ancient past or the monsoon cycle.»

Widely known in East to Southeast Asia, with China as its number one producer, the Ramie plant has an ancient past of Egyptian culture.

The days of expectations of your princess» first word very soon will become an ancient past.

If most archaeological sites offer a snapshot of the ancient past, Tabun Cave provides a time - lapse video.

The answers to that crucial question lie in the ancient past.

Why go underwater to study the ancient past, when research is so much easier on land?

In carbon dioxide, for example, these multiple isotopes are found more often than expected — a phenomenon called clumping — which leads to a powerful tool for measuring the temperatures at which the molecules formed, now and in the ancient past.

It gives us a better chance of catching the fleeting artefacts that are key to understanding our ancient past.

It was previously not known if brown dwarfs could form from such primordial gas, and the discovery points the way to a larger undiscovered population of extremely pure brown dwarfs from our Galaxy's ancient past.

In a new study, to be published in the Sept. 16 issue of the journal Science, Payne and his colleagues examined the association between extinction threat level and ecological traits such as body size for two major groups of marine animals — mollusks and vertebrates — over the past 500 years and compared it with the ancient past, stretching as far back as 445 million years ago and with a particular emphasis on the most recent 66 million years.

Scientists are studying trends from fossil records to understand how climate change impacted the world in the ancient past and to identify ways to predict how things may change in the future, according to a new study by University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science researcher Matt Fitzpatrick and colleagues published in the August 2 issue of Science.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, successfully recovered and analyzed ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies dating from approximately 1400 BCE to 400 CE, including the first genome - wide nuclear data from three individuals, establishing ancient Egyptian mummies as a reliable source for genetic material to study the ancient past.

At other times in its ancient past, the moon's poles are thought to have wandered far enough to bring polar regions near the sun - drenched equator.

Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have produced the first direct evidence that parts of our brains implicated in mental disorders may be shaped by a «residual echo» from our ancient past.

In the mists of the ancient past, a single organism must have given rise to us all.

The team agrees that more needs to be done and suggests that ancient DNA studies of prehistoric burials — which would give scientists a finer grained picture of population mixing in the ancient past — could be the next step in this ongoing research.

Mission team members hope that observations the spacecraft makes during its one - year prime mission will yield insights about Mars» shift from a relatively warm, wet world in the ancient past to the cold, dry planet it is today.

The six - wheeled Curiosity has already accomplished that goal, determining that a site called Yellowknife Bay was indeed habitable in the ancient past.

It also spotted evidence of flowing water sometime in the ancient past.

In fact, planetary scientists have determined that in Mars» ancient past, «mega-tsunamis» swept across the planet after two separate large meteorites struck the red planet, permanently changing the Martian terrain — but also leaving evidence Mars was once covered in cold, salty oceans.

Mars likely held flowing water during its ancient past, possibly even vast oceans of it.

The month wasn't yet over when Opportunity discovered more evidence of water, this time from images of a rock outcrop that probably formed from a deposit of saltwater in the ancient past.