Sentences with phrase «by ancient sites»

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And while (in contrast to Yanukovych in 2010) he did not ask Patriarch Kirill's blessing on his inauguration, he did step soon afterwards into Kyiv's ancient St. Sophia Cathedral, a site claimed and revered by all of Ukraine's historic churches.

Some background: that site was put together by a Jewish Talmudist (a scholar of the Torah (the first 5 books of the Old Testament) as well as ancient Jewish commentaries on the Bible).

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.

This idea was propagated largely by Zeitgeist, which dishes out a lot of wrong and unverifiable information about these ancient myths (see http://beginningandend.com/jesus-copy-horus-mithras-dionysis-pagan-gods/ which is just one of many sites that tear the claims made in Zeitgeist to shreds).

Ancient monuments and archaeological sites are perfectly preserved; the museums are bursting with the genius of Italy's finest sons: Raffaello, Michelangelo, Tiziano, Canova; contemporary architects are still inspired by ancient buildings and squares (piAncient monuments and archaeological sites are perfectly preserved; the museums are bursting with the genius of Italy's finest sons: Raffaello, Michelangelo, Tiziano, Canova; contemporary architects are still inspired by ancient buildings and squares (piancient buildings and squares (piazzas).

The High Court has rejected a bid by a representative of the Council of British Druid Orders (CoBDO), King Arthur Uther Pendragon, to return cremated remains to an ancient burial site at Stonehenge.

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.

By last week the toll included the statues in the Mosul Museum, the classical site of Hatra, and the ancient Assyrian capitals of Nineveh, Nimrud, and Khorsabad, famed for their massive protective deities in the form of human - headed winged bulls.

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.

The dramatic site of Brak had been briefly excavated by Mallowan in the 1930s, but Christie found it not to her liking, since rainfall was too sparse for the flowers she loved to grow; they split their time with another ancient mound farther north with a slightly wetter climate.

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

Many of these supposed ancient cultural features lie uncomfortably close to established archaeological sites being studied by Miracle and others.

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.»

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.

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.

The wreck sites are littered with large marble columns and blocks and piles of amphorae — ceramic vats used by ancient people throughout the Roman Republic.

Researchers recently determined that the «burned» darkened wood and reddened sediments found at a site in northern Germany, now a coal mine called Schöningen, were really colored by water exposure and soil decomposition, not ancient flames.

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.

She and her team dated the site by several methods with several dating laboratories and announced that some of the marks were footprints made by ancient humans.

One «must» for all four ExoMars sites was clay: fine - grained sediment that, on Earth, is deposited by water and is excellent at preserving the remains of ancient organisms.

For example, at an ancestral Pueblo settlement in Blue J, N.M, the researchers were able to map detailed architectural plans of a dozen ancient house compounds — a discovery enabled by the site's optimal conditions, the soil matrix, low density ground cover, and the environmental conditions at the time of the aerial thermography.

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.

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).

Records kept by the Romans describe the macabre rituals practised by the Germanic peoples on the bodies of their vanquished enemies, but this is the first time that traces of an ancient holy site have been unearthed.

A 2,700 - year - old portico was discovered this summer on the site of the ancient city of Argilos in northern Greece, following an archaeological excavation led by Jacques Perreault, Professor at the University of Montreal's Centre of Classical Studies and Zisis Bonias, an archaeologist with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.

Led by Thomas Cucchi of National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, France, and Lior Weissbrod of the University of Haifa in Israel, the study set out to explain large swings in the ratio of house mice to wild mice populations found during excavations of different prehistoric periods at an ancient Natufian hunter - gatherer site in the Jordan Valley of Israel.

In a paper published August 17, 2017 in the journal PLOS ONE, an international team of researchers, led by Director Nicole Boivin of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, used new techniques to analyze ancient DNA and proteins from 496 bone samples from 22 island, coastal and inland sites in eastern Africa.

One of the Spirit rover team geologists, Dr. Steve Ruff, a proponent of the Home Plate (Columbia Hills) silica site on Mars having been formed by an ancient siliceous hot spring, came along on a geothermal field trip I led in February 2016 to the Rotorua area with Australian geologists who work on Archean rocks.

The team, led by Dr. Ladislav Nejman of the University of Sydney, has discovered evidence of ancient artifacts in a cave site in the Czech Republic, suggesting Neanderthals and modern humans occasionally traveled through the area 50,000 to 28,000 years ago.

In 2010, a team of archaeologists led by University of Alaska Fairbanks» Ben Potter discovered the ancient cremated remains of a three - year - old child at the Upward Sun River site in the Tanana River Valley of central Alaska.

Artifacts unearthed from various pits at the site appear to share features that are typical of an ancient archaeological practice developed by the first farmers in Scandinavia.

It has been found on the sites of graves that date back to the Bronze Age in the United Kingdom, and evidence suggests that it was in use by the ancient Celtic communities as a medicinal herb.

About Site - News about ancient Egypt as well as temple reconstructions and other Egyptian artworks by Mark Millmore.

Frozen in time by the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius, it is one of the best preserved ancient Roman sites.

That, at least, is what Florida Atlantic University scientists hope to prove by analyzing ancient DNA found at an archaeological dig in Vero Beach... Fossil Site on the Charles Deering Estate in south Miami - Dade County.

The ancient city of Petra is one of Jordan's most treasured national sites and by far its best tourist attraction.

The city is located on the site of an ancient Greek colony, said to have been founded by Greek sailors who were looking for a safe shore on which to land.

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Because the area was originally inhabited by ancient Mayans, there are a number of pre-Columbian archaeological sites.

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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.

The film presents a fantastic contrast between the old and the new right from the very start when a statue of Christ is flown in by helicopter past ancient Roman aqueducts, over construction sites for new suburban tenement buildings, and over the rooftop of penthouse apartments decked out with bikini - clad women of the leisure class.

Giving stronger emphasis in the stage of these epic battles and inspired by the landscape of ancient China to deliver a wide range of visual treats, Dynasty Warriors 8 will feature more than 40 completely new stages: verdant plains, desolate wastelands, sharp ravines, huge castles, and other breath - taking sites.

From ancient Christian sites in Spain, Italy and Israel to the far reaches of Iran and Tunisia, Morgan and Jake must track down the stones through the myths of the early church in a race against time before a new Pentecost is summoned, this time powered by the fire of evil.

Ley Lines (ref # 1) linking ancient sites are now revealed by aerial photography but were accurately described by Erich Von Daniken in his 1968 classic Chariots Of The Gods.