Sentences with phrase «as ancient pottery»

Looting of valuable objects such as ancient pottery has long plagued the Bears Ears area.

The method was previously used on human organs as an anatomy study aid for medical students, and has since been adopted to digitally archive artifacts such as ancient pottery and prehistoric skulls so that students and researchers can interact with otherwise rarely handled specimens from museum collections.

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The other reason to go underwater is that it's the place to find evidence of ship hulls, which were as important to ancient cultures as architecture, pottery, anything.

«We were also able to link their production technology to other ancient «industries» and practices, such as mining, metallurgy, pottery, dyeing, pharmacopeia and alchemy.»

The entirety of the campaign appears as if it's a painting on the side of ancient Greek pottery come to life.

There are no written records to support this theory prior to the 9th century but ancient artifacts such as handmade pottery dating back to 300BC have been seen to feature the image of dogs that could be early ancestors of the Chihuahua breed.

It's impossible not to be affected by the sheer physical beauty, the ancient Maya altars and the number of ancient Maya artefacts such as jade axe heads, pottery and sacrificial instruments scattered around.

Once inside of the cave, a guide will lead participants on a 4 - 5 hour tour of the cave, learning about its history and geology, as well as viewing ancient Mayan pottery and even human skeletal remains.

Although most caves have not been thoroughly explored yet and because of the isolation of them you will find natural splendors and archaeological significance such as ancient Mayan Pottery and abundant species of animals such as blind white crayfish and numerous arachnids.

Here you will witness burial grounds, ceremonial pottery, and bones of ancient people that remain as an eternal testimonial.

As you reach «The Cathedral», named because of its scale, magnificence and sacredness, you can see giant stalactites hanging from the ceiling, and ancient Maya artifacts including pottery and human bones littering the cave floor.

In his ongoing investigation of his intimate environment, Jonas Wood fuses artistic influences as diverse as the domestic interiors of Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, and David Hockney to Chinese and Japanese still - life scenes, ancient pottery and the guileless textiles of Josef Frank.

But it's Nagle's sculptures that have earned him his widest audience, and now, a show in a major gallery — displaying the objects in special vitrines as if they were works of ancient pottery in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Students consider pottery, mosaics, and glassware as evidence of societal change and daily life in ancient times.

Ancient Roman Fresco painting, in particular the Garden of Livia in the Massimo collection in Rome, is an important reference, as is Greek Attic pottery painting.

In addition to the display of ancient ceramics in collections of the Louvre in Paris, the Pinakothek in Munich and the Hermitage in St Petersburg, fine art pottery and sculptures are displayed regularly in galleries and museums around the world, such as: the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Brohan Museum (Germany), the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), the National Gallery (Melbourne), the Musee des Arts Decoratifs de Montreal; as well as the the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the American Museum of Ceramic Art (Los Angeles), the JB Speed Art Museum (Louisville), The Museum of Modern Art New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Museum of Contemporary Crafts (New York), Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, Nancy Margolis Gallery (NYC), the Schein - Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art (New York), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Mingei International Museum (San Diego), and the Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC).

Over the years, the couple amassed a collection of around 1,400 objects, some dating back as far as 1200 BC, including 16th century Aztec pottery as well as ancient and modern Mexican textiles.