Sentences with phrase «ancient sites from»

Discover major ancient sites from civilizations spread across the Mediterranean, from Greece to Egypt, on this 9 - day cruise.

Efforts to map ancient sites from satellite imagery are revealing never - before known archaeological sites, which may lead to a «no - strike list» for combatants

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Dr. Austin, the «scientist» in question, is a young earth creationist who went to the site with the stated purpose of finding «proof against evolution,» gathered material which was a mix of newly formed rock and ancient rock which had been ejected from the mountain, dated them with imprecise methods, and then skewed the results, as thousands of actual scientists have already reported.

The invaders were called Amorites («Westerners») and for centuries they dominated the life of the Fertile Crescent, with city - states firmly established at such sites as Haran (from whence came Abraham, 11:31), Ugarit, Mari, and Babylon, which was ruled in the decades around 1700 by the renowned Hammurabi, Ugarit and Mari, among other ancient sites, have yielded profuse contemporary information of several kinds.

Not long ago, Pope Benedict XVI made a personal donation to the restoration of the Basilica of St. Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, the site of the ancient town of Hippo Regius, where the greatest theologian of the ancient church served as bishop from 395 to 430.

I highly recommend Chichen Itza and Tulum — two ancient sites beautifully preserved from a thousand years ago.

2012 Dashe Ancient Vines Bedrock Vineyard Sonoma Valley Red ($ 35, 14.1 %): No surprise that two wines from this site near Kenwood appear here.

Yes, the ancient people who moved the stones from a hundred miles away and constructed the site were very talented engineers, but as a tourist attraction, Stonehenge lacked the interpretive displays so necessary to understand its importance.

Your journey back from Westfjords winds along shoreline roads and through mountain passes, stopping at Vatnsfjördur to visit its ancient Viking archeological site.

We've been excavating a site on the beach about 10 meters from the high tide line for about 10 years, finding stone tools and ancient mammal bones and teeth.

The researchers looked for evidence of ancient altercations by examining 350 adult Neolithic skulls from British burial sites and analyzing the microstructure of any fractures they found.

Donald Grayson, an anthropologist at the University of Washington, worries that dates from the site might have been contaminated by ancient carbon from the huge aquifer that sits under much of Florida.

Scuba - diving archaeologists have unearthed artefacts from an ancient butchering site that seem to settle a debate about when humans spread across the Americas.

Working in the murk of a river in Florida, the team found stone tools dating back 14,550 years that could have been used to carve up ancient elephant - like beasts called mastodons, whose remains have been recovered from the same site.

Those sites gave her the chance to gather fossils from many different depths in the ancient ocean, from the more oxygen - rich surface waters to deeper zones.

Insights are also expected from back, forearm and finger fossils of two or three ancient apes, possibly also from N. alesi, found near the skull site in 2015.

Some of the site's most evocative evidence for the ancient Egyptians» seafaring prowess is concealed behind a modern steel door set into a cliff just 700 feet or so from the Red Sea shore.

Orlando's group examined DNA from the bones of 15 Iron Age stallions from the ancient Scythian civilization: Two stallions were from a 2,700 - year - old grave site in Russia and 13 were sacrificed in a burial ritual about 2,300 years ago in Kazakhstan.

These relics of ancient South Americans add to evidence from nearby sites challenging the longstanding view of Clovis people as the first Americans (SN: 8/11/12, p. 15), a team led by geochronologist Christelle Lahaye of the University of Bordeaux 3 and archaeologist Eric Boëda of the University of Paris X reports March 4 in the

Previous research has found that U5b2c1 was present in two ancient hunter - gatherers recovered from an archaeological site in north - western Spain, she says.

Veeramah is quick to point out Larson's analysis hinged largely on the genome of one ancient pooch, extracted from a 5,000 - year - old fossilized ear bone preserved at a Neolithic site in Ireland called Newgrange.

Fossil dogs and wolves from Palaeolithic sites in Belgium, the Ukraine and Russia: osteometry, ancient DNA and stable isotopes.

The scientists are now struggling to keep invaders from spreading eastward by patrolling a 45 - kilometer - long firebreak between the ancient Maya sites of La Corona and El Perú - Waka» with the aid of Guatemalan authorities, a strategy that McNab dubs «the shield.»

The group also studied the OR7D4 gene in the ancient DNA from two extinct human populations, Neanderthals and the Denisovans, whose remains were found at the same site in Siberia, but who lived tens of thousands of years apart.

ARROWHEADS and spearheads unearthed from ancient North American sites have always been taken as solid evidence of hunting by early Americans.

The concrete sample examined at the Advanced Light Source by Berkeley researchers, BAI.06.03, is from the harbor of Baiae, one of many ancient underwater sites in the region.

The Venus figurines of women, some with exaggerated anatomical features, and ancient rock art, like the image from the Abri Castanet site in France that is supposedly of female genitalia.

Ancient DNA in Schlebusch's study came from seven individuals unearthed at six South African sites.

At a remote rain forest site in Guatemala last February, archaeologist David Lee happened upon the find of a lifetime: a royal tomb from the seventh century A.D. that suggests war was not strictly a man's game in ancient Mayan society.

«Ancient giant sperm from tiny shrimps discovered at Riversleigh World Heritage Fossil Site.»

You may associate ancient wine with the toga - wearing set, but by the time Romans were quaffing it, the beverage was itself ancient: 7,000 - year - old pottery from sites in Iran's Zagros Mountains tested positive for residues specific to grapes.

At this site, called Anau, three ancient mounds poke up from the plains.

The ancient Oxus culture may have arisen at sites like Anau, a settlement at the base of the Kopet - Dag mountains, which dates back to 6500 B.C.. Later settlements like Gonur, roughly 4,000 years old, may have been founded by people from the Kopet - Dag cultures.

It includes data from the team's ongoing excavations at the sites of two ancient communities in the lower Yellow River flood plain of China's Henan province.

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Hirayama found a nearly complete fossil of the oldest known sea turtle in a 110 - million - year - old rock collected from the site of an ancient Brazilian sea.

The six sites removed from review are Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve in Idaho, Hanford Reach National Monument in Washington state, Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in Colorado, Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument in Montana, Grand Canyon - Parashant National Monument in Arizona and Sand to Snow National Monument in California.

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These environmental records, in combination with ancient tools that have been excavated from archeological sites within Olorgesailie, help tell the tale of a hominin species that could very well be the ancestor of modern humans.

Extracted from a sixteenth century pig found at the site of the Montsoriu Castle in Girona, the data obtained indicates that this ancient pig is closely related to today's Iberian pig.

He teamed up with longtime Botai zooarchaeologist Alan Outram from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, and together they discovered an ancient corral at the site, another sign of domestication.

Images from 2 April 2014 show four vehicles among the ancient Roman ruins in close proximity to the looting, suggesting that the disturbances at the site may have been ongoing at that time, according to the report.

In the report, images from 2014 show numerous pits throughout three sites where ancient cities once stood.

While the relatively cool conditions at many European sites have helped preserve the DNA of ancient skeletons, researchers had not succeeded in sequencing DNA from the many skeletons found at very early Middle Eastern sites, due to their very hot and dry environments.

Allaby's team took four core samples of sediments from a section of the site littered with burnt hazelnut shells apparently left by the hunter - gatherers and subjected the samples to both radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA analysis.

To do so, they used new techniques to carefully cull chloroplast DNA from ancient rice 900 -2,800-years-old, which had been excavated from seven archaeological sites in Japan and Korea.

Ancient DNA from skeletons (inset) found at this early farming site in Syria, Tell Halula, points to a maritime route for the spread of farming into Europe.

You say that the only explanation for the DNA match between «ancient cod» found in northern waters and today's cod from the Viking site at Haithabu, now in Germany, is transportation in freeze - dried form by Vikings (12 August, p 7).

The site's ancient statues were removed to museums long ago, so the reasons behind the destruction remain murky, although the IS group's desire to profit from antiquities is well - known.

Two ancient crania were unearthed about 4000 kilometers from Denisova Cave at the site of Lingjing in Henan province in China.