Sentences with phrase «ancient time period»

Returning to an ancient time period may help for the long - running franchise to rediscover its roots.

It would appear that a majority of initial leaks have proven true, as Ubisoft officially revealed the upcoming Assassin's Creed Origins, bringing along a new assassin, another ancient time period, and a refreshing exotic locale: Egypt.

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That time period in ancient China, by the way, corresponds with what is called the Spring and Autumn Period (about 771 to 476 B.C.), which tradition associates with the Chinese teacher and philosopher Confucius, one of the first to espouse the prinperiod in ancient China, by the way, corresponds with what is called the Spring and Autumn Period (about 771 to 476 B.C.), which tradition associates with the Chinese teacher and philosopher Confucius, one of the first to espouse the prinPeriod (about 771 to 476 B.C.), which tradition associates with the Chinese teacher and philosopher Confucius, one of the first to espouse the principle:

It's funny how most all those books were written by men in different time periods, and yet there stories all go back and match those of the ancient Egyptians.

David L. Miller, recently reviewing my book The Chickadees in The Christian Century (May 22), has suggested that, as in ancient Greece, «there are two paths in our time, alternative mythologies for a period of crisis: up and out (the rational, heroic, masculine way), and down and in (the mad, mystical, feminine way).»

Theoretically a Purana is supposed to deal with five subjects: (1) the creation; (2) re-creation, the periodical destruction and renewal of the worlds; (3) the genealogy of the gods and the ancient Rishis; (4) the great time periods, each of which has a primal ancestor or Manu; and (5) the history of the early dynasties which trace their origin to the sun or the moon.

We find ourselves quite unconvinced by much of the ancient rabbinical reasoning, a little of which is reflected in the letters of Paul.7 Nevertheless the Jews spent much time trying to learn how the Scriptures they had inherited from a former period were to be seen as relevant to their own day.

I believe for a period of time there were some dinos that survived the meteor impact and lived with Ancient man.

Now tell me this, if you believe in the authorship of these ancient works with such a vast period of time in between, how on earth could you not believe in the New Testament's credibility?

In ancient times, there were fewer options for birth, and it was a given to have women attend a mother from birth through the post-partum period.

This knowledge wasn't available in ancient and historic times and it wasn't uncommon for babies to be born with low birth weight or undiagnosed (for that time period) problems that made the infant too feeble to survive.

Whereas a school may take a term to cover — say — basic trigonometry, or Ancient Rome — a child educated at home can cover these topics in far more diverse time periods.

It's something creative which is of our time period, rather than hearkening back to Ancient Greece or medieval England or whatever.

Last week at the American Astronomical Society's meeting, astronomers announced the detection of a second type of radio static from the heavens, and although it may not come from an era quite as ancient as TV snow does, it may probe the period immediately afterward — an equally mysterious time when the first stars and black holes were lighting up.

These may be submerged ancient shorelines cut during times of lower sea level, «the most recent of which occurred during the last glacial period, which ended about 19,000 years ago,» Chaytor said.

Most climate projections now end at 2300 at the latest, «because that's the time period most people are interested in,» says Marcott, a expert in glaciers and ancient climate.

Ancient DNA from the Phoenician remains found in Sardinia and Lebanon could provide insight into the extent of integration with settled communities and human movement during this time period, according to a study published January 10, 2018 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by E. Matisoo - Smith from the University of Otago, New Zealand and Pierre Zalloua from the Lebanese American University, Beirut, and colleagues.

Through the Pegasus project, begun in 2015, Orlando and colleagues have collected ancient DNA from horse fossils from a wide variety of time periods and cultures.

The discovery, reported in the current issue of Nature Communications, logs a number of firsts: the first record of ancient tsunami activity found in a sea cave; the first record for such a long time period in the Indian Ocean; and the most pristine record of tsunamis anywhere in the world.

Once the team discovered the link between volcanic eruptions and reduced Nile flooding, they turned their attention to more ancient times — specifically, to the period from 305 B.C.E. to 30 B.C.E., when Greeks ruled a dynasty centered in Egypt.

1 The sultry «dog days of summer» get their name from ancient astronomers who noticed that those days coincide with the period when Sirius, the Dog Star, rises at the same time as the sun.

The team wanted to determine if the investigated ancient populations were affected at the genetic level by foreign conquest and domination during the time period under study, and compared these populations to modern Egyptian comparative populations.

«These ancient animals help us to better understand the climatic and paleogeographic conditions of that period in time.

The newfound fossil from the same time period reveals that these ancient spiders lived alongside not - quite - spider cousins.

Nevertheless, an ultimate confirmation of this hypothesis depends on the availability of appropriate genetic material of ancient plague victims not only from different periods throughout time but also from different parts of Eurasia.

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.

But ancient - DNA sequencing is beginning to shed some light on the issue.11 For example, by comparing a human HAR sequence with the HAR sequence of an archaic hominin, researchers can estimate if the HAR mutated before, after, or during the time period of our common ancestor.12 This approach has revealed that the rate at which HAR mutations emerged was slightly higher before we split from Neanderthals and Denisovans.3, 13 As a result, most HAR mutations are millions of years old and shared with these extinct hominins (but not with chimpanzees).

Ancient people considered these seeds magical due to their ability to increase stamina and energy for long periods of time.

Fermentation is an ancient technique, preserving vegetables for long periods of time.

There is absolutely different approach In his intermittent fasting style book — ancient greek / roman warriors ate mostly at evening / night time, so u have to expand no eating period at day time lowering insulin and eat a lot at evening in 4 hour window when you're less stressful and less cortisol!

Perhaps we could say that the real subject of In the Mood for Love, then, is the gulf which divides the past from the present, articulated both by the film's sumptuous period imagery — the colors and textures of Hong Kong in the 1960s rendered iconic by Wong's patient, perceptive eye — and its mesmerizing coda, in which Mr. Chow whispers the secret of his love and longing into a hole in the side of an ancient ruin in Cambodia, a site which stands as an enduring symbol of time's ceaseless forward march.

Completing the trilogy arc which began with FIRST CLASS, Bryan Singer's X-MEN: APOCALYPSE will take place over different time periods, ranging from the ancient past to the film's main setting in 1983.

If your students simply aren't in the mood for another discussion on Ancient Greece, have them write and perform a play that illustrates the time period being studied.

Take the time to lose yourself in the big houses of Ireland's Ancient East this year and you'll discover a story over 5000 years in the making, through periods of prosperity, stagnation, of war and endeavour, the great Irish estates and their spectacular gardens will welcome you with open arms.

A holiday resort since Roman times, Bellagio's rich history is reflected in the town's ancient cobbled streets and stone stairways; a legacy of fine architecture and buildings from Roman to medieval times, then from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century - a time period when Bellagio was under Spanish occupation.

So the game still takes place in ancient China during the Three Kingdoms period, and you control Wei, Shu, Jin and Wu with all the different characters having their own different missions and different experiences so that you have four different ways of taking on the game also this boost the replay value of the game, but lets face it, if you are a DW fan you are going to play through the game numerous times anyway just to beat your own personal score, I know because I've been one myself since DW 2.

A world as large as this one will naturally comes with methods of travel and given the time period in which this game is set, travelling across the ancient Egypt lands will be provided by your trusty horse and / or camel.

In addition to the «free roaming experience», the The Discovery Tour by Assassin's Creed: Ancient Egypt will also offer guided tours that focus on different aspects of that time period (the Great Pyramids, the mummification, Cleopatra, Temples and priests, Daily life etc) and also a little about the science of Egyptology and how the team integrated this into the immersive world.

The exhibition is organized in chapters corresponding to the distinct periods during which Picasso devoted himself to sculpture, each time exploring with fresh intensity the modern possibilities of this ancient art form.

Human activities are releasing greenhouse gases more than 30 times faster than the rate of emissions that triggered a period of extreme global warming in the Earth's past, according to an expert on ancient climates.

Living things live in a narrow range of ph. Recent oceans and ancient oceans that allowed complex life had a ph that varied approximately from 7.5 to 8.5 and any change in ph occurred over extended time periods.

Seven years is a hugely long time period and this gamma - ray burst you're talking about might be the final proof of the influence of ancient aliens on the psyche of medieval man!

Researchers often look to ancient times for information about the ways species weathered earlier periods of sudden warming.

Note that this is a reletivly short time period and I am not sure how accurate it is, however, scientists seemed to think that it was a relativly accurate representation of this ancient atmoshere.

Articles featured in the Bulletin cover diverse religious traditions from any time period from ancient religions to new religious movements.