Sentences with phrase «as artifacts from»

Three gallery floors feature materials from Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Bible Lands, Mesoamerica, Asia and the ancient Mediterranean World, as well as artifacts from native peoples of the Americas, Africa and Polynesia.

Honolulu Academy of Arts Founded in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke, its collection now holds over 40,000 works, featuring the Samuel H. Kress collection of Italian Renaissance paintings, American and European paintings and decorative arts, as well as artifacts from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.

Collections range from art historical treasures such as works on paper by Rembrandt van Rijn and David Hockney, paintings by Sir John Everett Millais and Hans Hofmann, sculpture by Hiram Powers and Louise Nevelson, as well as artifacts from the ancient world, ceramics, and textiles.

The exhibition — which is part of the College's Georgia Brooks Stonewall Celebration Project — features the work of 20 contemporary artists as well as artifacts from the Lesbian Herstory Archives.

He knows, loves, and serves not God but his own species through reading novels and journals, visiting art galleries and museums where altarpieces are admired as artifacts from a superstitious age.

A cotton T - shirt manufactured and tested in 2050 may appear to be the same age as an artifact from the 11th century when dated using the radiocarbon method.

The Vive launch title presents itself as an artifact from the future, a kind of museum exhibit allowing people to play as workers of the late 21st Century: a white collar in a cubicle, a convenience clerk so on.

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Called Alcatraz East, the facade will resemble a 19th century prison, and according to a press release, it will house such artifacts as John Dillinger's death mask, Al Capone's rosary, the Bronco from the OJ chase and «items related to the 2012 Benghazi attack.»

Obama had used the Antiquities Act more than any other president, his White House said in December, when he designated over 1.6 million acres of land in Utah and Nevada as national monuments, protecting two areas rich in Native American artifacts from mining, oil and gas drilling.

Musée des beaux arts Located in the historic Place de Miremont square, the fine - arts and archeology museum houses a collection of artifacts from Vienne's Roman past, as well as paintings from the 16th to early 20th centuries.

Of more concern is the preservation of earlier artifacts like the Apollo landing sites, especially as the Lunar X Prize offers a $ 4 million bonus for broadcasting video from one of those sites.

They can understand how any claim to «God's word» is clothed in linguistic particularity and rhetoric requiring interpretation, and that every tradition requires a reinterpretation in order to transmit symbols from one generation to the next as living vehicles of meaning and not as museum artifacts.

That is most obvious if we pass from artifacts to the sort of thing that has grown and developed as a unity and as a whole.

«33 The reason is attributed to the availability of adequate soil coverage and water systems in Nazareth that make agriculture possible even at the hilltop.34 Archaeological digs at Nazareth by Bagatti has shown that the artifacts recovered under the shrines of Nazareth, among others, include silos, olive - pressing and wine - pressing installations, cisterns, and holes for storage jars, some of which coming from a period as early as the Iron Age.35 This led Meyers and Strange to conclude that Nazareth was a peasant village since «the principal activity of these villagers was agriculture.

It was a sign of the times as much as any artifact I have ever seen from Rome or Egypt or even Tibet.

A baseball wasn't an artifact before 9/11, yet we recognize a baseball taken from the wreckage as a part of the history.

@GodFreeNow if the artifact was use as a tool of worship, but it was only use after the destruction, and the artifact was change from it preciosity version.

It was Consalvi who had these two great artifacts and much of the rest of the Roman Forum excavated, as it was Consalvi who built a new wing onto the Vatican museums in order to display the art recovered from French looters.

«I would regard the acquisition of any artifact likely from Iraq... as carrying considerable risk,» that expert told the company in an in - house memo.

Commenting on the NCC's first assembly meeting in Denver, Colorado, in late 1952, Charles Clayton Morrison, then a contributing editor, defended the council as an «artifact, which does not belong to the nature of the church,» but which nevertheless deserved support from denominations as a vehicle for moving away from the divisions within the church caused by «human contrivances» (January 7, 1953).

The following quote, taken directly from the article, shows that people tend to see this artifact as a religious symbol, and that Christians interpret 9/11 as being an attack on their religion.

The few characters who might be described as heroic — Galahad, Bors, Percivale, and, by the end, Lancelot — do not save the world from the machinations of a sorcerer - villain or secure some magical artifact for the safekeeping of the benevolent powers; they become saints.

They all repudiated the idea that the Bible could be studied and understood with dispassionate objectivity, as a cold artifact from antiquity.

All five buildings display information and artifacts of Arlington Heights from as early as the 1830s, when settlers founded the village.

This appears to me to be a historical artifact; I'm not aware of any legal impediments on a federal level that would prevent states or municipalities from using any voting system they want, so long as it treats all votes equally.

The creator of the artifacts which appears to be an exhibition, Mr Faisal Dauda said although he applied for permit to mount his artifact at the disaster scene, he was yet to get permit from the AMA, adding he could not wait any longer as the event date was approaching hence his decision to go ahead without the permit.

Even if everyone in some population can concretely rank their favorite artifact from the set -LCB- rock, paper, scissors -RCB-, it may still be possible for 2/3 to significantly prefer paper to rock, 2/3 to significantly favor scissors to paper, and 2/3 to significantly prefer rock to scissors (i.e. even though every member of the population may have a clear ranking of flavors, the population as a whole may not).

People attending the Saturday rally in Ellenville's Liberty Square rally were treated to lunch and were surrounded by museum - like dioramas of a coffee shop, featuring mannequins dressed as a waitress, a skier, a golfer and a singer; and artifacts from the Nevele's peak period, including a sign touting comedian Jan Murray.

Lorello was convicted in 2008 of grand larceny for stealing hundreds of artifacts from the collections of the New York State Library and New York Archives, for which he worked for nearly 30 years as a Civil War expert.

«This important exhibition of rare and historic artifacts from America's struggle for freedom will inspire us all to remember and cherish our past, as New Yorkers and Americans.

The new findings join previous reports of potentially symbolic Neandertal artifacts, such as a possible necklace made from eagle claws (SN: 4/18/15, p. 7) and bird - feather decorations.

When comparing the history of hydrological changes in the region with artifacts from the Middle Stone Age, the researchers discovered a «striking correspondence between the archaeological record of South Africa and the timing of the abrupt climate change» as seen in the marine core, the study states.

As the needle tip progressed from the high right atrium to the inferior vena cava, the thin foramen ovale manifested as a hypoechoic region between the thick limbus fossae ovalis and the tendon of Todaro (with a diagonal artifact from the ICE catheter and sheathAs the needle tip progressed from the high right atrium to the inferior vena cava, the thin foramen ovale manifested as a hypoechoic region between the thick limbus fossae ovalis and the tendon of Todaro (with a diagonal artifact from the ICE catheter and sheathas a hypoechoic region between the thick limbus fossae ovalis and the tendon of Todaro (with a diagonal artifact from the ICE catheter and sheath).

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.

After calculating height and weight projections drawn from the impressions, as well as studying flint tools and other artifacts previously found nearby, the team believes the tracks were made by a small group of adult and juvenile members of the species Homo antecessor, known mostly from a handful of fossils in Spain.

New diagnostic techniques revealed traces of blood (inset, in blue) in microscopic samples from ancient African artifacts such as this one.

Researchers have found more than 15,000 stone flakes and cores, as well as more than 900 artifacts, in layers of sediments dating from 1.76 million to 1.85 million years ago.

Stone artifacts unearthed in the same sediment as the fossil jaw included chunks of rock from which sharp flakes were pounded off and used as cutting tools.

Furthermore, about 46,000 obsidian flakes were recovered from a Middle Stone Age site, indicating that obsidian was brought in as raw material and manipulated onsite, rather than imported as finished artifacts.

In this exaggerated - color image, the beams fanning away from the rings are an artifact of the photographic process, just as a personal camera sometimes captures the glare in a snapshot at the beach.

And today, he reported a theft at a cemetery south of Cairo, as well as eight missing artifacts from the Egyptian Museum, located on Tahrir Square itself.

By the end of the 2012 field season, excavations at the site, named Lomekwi 3, had uncovered 149 stone artifacts tied to tool - making, from stone cores and flakes to rocks used for hammering and others possibly used as anvils to strike on.

Higham and his colleagues went on to conduct a statistical analysis of previous radiocarbon dating results from Mezmaiskaya Cave and the six other sites in Europe and Asia — ranging from Russia in the northeast to Spain in the southwest — that have provided direct dates from Neandertal fossils, as opposed to indirect dates from charcoal and other artifacts.

But diffusion MRI suffers from magnetic field artifacts that can distort the actual location of tumors by as much as 1.2 centimeters or roughly half an inch — a significant distance when surgeons are attempting, for example, to assess whether a tumor extends beyond the prostate and into adjacent nerve bundles.

We refer to this ETI technology as «non-terrestrial artifacts», in part to distinguish these plausible exploratory spacecraft from the flying saucers of science fiction.

Co-author Clive Bonsall from the University of Edinburgh explained that indigenous hunter - gatherers can be distinguished archaeologically from immigrant farmers by their material culture, such as artifacts, architecture, burial traditions, art, and body ornamentation.

Now a study has found that the artifact was far from alone as all iron tools dating back to the Bronze Age have otherworldly origins.

Hypervariable regions may result from sequencing artifacts or high copy repeat regions (such as STRs or segdups) with high degree of polymorphism.

excavation The process of systematically removing earth from a site to uncover buried remains, such as bones or artifacts.

They play an important role in applied sciences as well as industrial and commercial research, with uses ranging from the measurement of stress in commercial airplane wings to the inspection of details inside valuable artifacts in archaeological studies.