Sentences with phrase «century bc»

The handshake gesture has been used by many cultures over the years and is depicted in Greek carving dating from the 5th century BC.

Chinese philosopher Lao - tzu said this during the sixth century BC.

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Dating as far back as the 4th century BC, pinhole cameras represent the most basic form of photography.

Dragon boating has been around since the fourth century BC, originating in China.

The Neo-Assyrian capital of Nineveh in northern Iraq, from the mid-7th century BC, is the earliest attested site of courtly scientific patronage in world history.

An anonymous, but perhaps identifiable, website making an effort to improve the dating of eponyms in the reign of the Middle Assyrian king, Shalmaneser I (13th century BC) is here.

In Vitruvius's 1st century BC encyclopedia of architecture, a seminal antecedent to Architectural Graphic Standards, these vernacular skills become the art of building and one finds entire chapters devoted to the profound significance of the sun's movement in relation to the location of rooms, the size of apertures, and thermal mass.

Indeed there was skeptical behavior long before even the pre-cursors of formal philosophical skepticism, which arose with the 5th century BC Sophists9.

Koli fisherfolk have inhabited the seven islands that form Mumbai as far back as the 2nd century BC.

As well as the 13th century high water stand we can observe others around the 5th century BC, the 5th century AD (roman forts of the Saxon shore) the 16th century and increasing water levels from around the middle of the 18th century.

Another was in the late 6th Century BC when there was not only the miracle of Ionia and Greece: philosophy, science, poetry, all reaching a point that wasn't reached again for 2000 years, but also in India a spiritual enlightenment that has perhaps never been equalled.

The Minoan eruption of Thera (modern Santorini), the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history, occurred in the Bronze Age, the late 17th century BC; the classic «Little Ice Age» began at the beginning of the 14th century AD and lasted until the mid-18th century.

[Response: Find one scientific reference since the third century BC to the Earth being flat (to save you the trouble, there don't appear to be any).

Come to the British Museum to eavesdrop on a conversation across the millennia between Auguste Rodin and Pheidias, his mentor from the fifth century BC.

A common theme that runs throughout his work is that of the mathematical φ Phi, the source ratio which was defined in the 3rd Century BC by Euclid in Elements, and later expanded upon by Luca Pacioli (1445 — 1517) in the Divina Proportione.

The sculpture made of lead, glass, photographs and hair references a story dating to 3rd century BC, where Berenice, the Princess of Cyrene (now Lybia) sacrificed a lock of her hair to ensure the safe return of her husband.

Each work has as its basis a large - scale digital print of an historical composition, relating to a previous performance by Chetwynd — whether the blooming garden fresco of Livia's Villa from the first - century BC (which previously formed the backdrop to the performance «Here She Comes» at the Royal Festival Hall in 2015), or Richard Dadd's feverishly intricate vision of The Fairy Feller's Master - Stroke (1855; a nod to her 2003 performance «Richard Dadd & the Dance of Death» at Tate Britain).

Her votive stelae are transformed depictions of the Greek «Moschophoros» (Calf - Bearer) of the 6th century BC, found on the Acropolis of Athens in the so - called Perserschutt (the rubble of the architecture and sculptures destroyed by the Persians in 480 BC).

During a visit to Denmark's Jutland Peninsula in 1962, Copenhagen - born Vandercam learned about Tollund Man, a mummified body from the 4th century BC, that was discovered with facial features intact.

From October 27, 2011, to April 2, 2012, the Neue Galerie will present a very special exhibition in honor of the tenth anniversary of the founding of the museum: «The Ronald S. Lauder Collection: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century / Germany, Austria, and France.»

Archaic bronze vessel, Gu, Shang Dynasty (1600 - 1050 BC)-- Anyang culture (1300 - 1050 BC)-- 12th — 11th Century BC Bronze with green patina, malachite encrustation, height 31 cm.

Housed at the Louvre, the marble sculpture from 2nd - century BC is of the Greek goddess Nike — notable because she is both headless and armless.

Most recently he has created 3D images of 7th century BC Egyptian temples in north Sudan as part of a project sponsored by the Qatar Museums Authority.

Encaustic as a form of painting has been around for thousands of years, dating back to the 4th Century BC.

Life - sized Thracian mask with coils of flattened gold wire that function as stylized hair Gold Fourth Century BC Ariadne Galleries, New York

All around it, newly commissioned artworks mix with pieces from the Bardis» collection: a marble statue of Diana from the fifth to first century BC alongside a Sarah Morris painting, Lina Bo Bardi (2013), describing the curves of Bo Bardi's nearby 1951 Bowl chair.

The J. Paul Getty Museum purchased this Etruscan bronze appliqué, which dates to the early 5th century BC, at auction from a private collection.

At Vervoordt's stand the visitors of the fair are at the right address as the gallery exhibits a historical masterpiece — a rectangular stele, Head of a Man, Sabaean Kingdom, Yemen, 3rd to 1st century BC.

Narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi and produced by the National Gallery, this excerpt is from a new documentary film that examines the explosion of artistic activity around the Bay of Naples beginning in the first century BC.

Warhol's dollar signs become irrelevant when confronted with an astonishing, smiling Archaic bust and arms of a korē from the 6th century BC.

A new world auction was set for an archaic bronze with the sale of a magnificent and highly important bronze ritual wine vessel, Fangzun (late Shang dynasty, 13th - 11th century BC), which realised $ 37,207,500 / HK$ 287,756,347 in New York on March 15.

A gold belt plaque of a Scythian funeray scene, Siberian Collection of Peter the Great, 4th — 3rd century BC.

DAVID DRISKELL Creative Spirit: Five Decades by Bridget Goodbody DAINA HIGGINS New Paintings by Charles Schultz LOIS DODD New Panel Paintings by Sharon Butler Unlikely Friends: JAMES BROOKS & DAN FLAVIN by Greg Lindquist DAMIEN HIRST The Complete Spot Paintings 1986 — 2011 by Corina Larkin LORI ELLISON by Corina Larkin GEORGES HUGNET The Love Life of the Spumifers by Valery Oisteanu Dark Christmas by Bradley Rubenstein ELLSWORTH KELLY Schwarz & Weiss by David Rhodes MALCOLM MORLEY Another Way to Make an Image, Monotypes by Robert Storr Five Works from the Collection of Albert Murray: ROMARE BEARDEN and NORMAN LEWIS by Charles Schultz THE RONALD S. LAUDER COLLECTION: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century / Germany, Austria, and France by Charles Schultz Anonymous Tantra Paintings by Noah Dillon SANGRAM MAJUMDAR New Work by Kara L. Rooney GUDMUNDUR THORODDSEN Father's Father by Paolo Javier SOTO Paris and Beyond, 1950 — 1970 by Cora Fisher JESS Paintings by Phong Bui GEORGE MCNEIL by Robert Berlind VICTOR MATTHEWS by Vincent Katz LOLA MONTES SCHNABEL Love Before Intimacy by David Markus THOMAS WOODRUFF The Four Temperament Variations by Kara L. Rooney MARTHA CLIPPINGER Hopscotch by Robert Berlind PETER GALLO by Jonathan Goodman Connected by Noah Dillon KANDINSKY's «Painting with White Border» by Susan Bee BARBARA SANDLER Straight On Till Morning by Robert Berlind December (Organized by Howie Chen) by Nathan Kernan EDWIN DICKINSON In Retrospect by Robert Berlind JOSÉ RIVERA by Nathan Kernan REMBRANDT»S WORLD: Dutch Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection by Sara Christoph JOSEPH MONTGOMERY Velveteen by Linnea Kniaz The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini by Mira Schor BOSCO SODI Ubi Sunt by Jonathan Goodman DOUG WADA Americana by Lilly Wei Mind the Gap by Anne Sherwood Pundyk BILL JENSEN by Ben La Rocco WITHIN / WITHOUT: A Studio Visit With SHOSHANA DENTZ by Zachary Wollard SUSANNA HELLER's Studio by Robert Berlind STUDIO VISIT: JOYCE PENSATO by William Corwin Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy by Shane McAdams Letter from BERLIN by David Rhodes JOSEPH MARIONI Eye to Eye by Robert C. Morgan GORDON MOORE by Joan Waltemath Master Bill at MoMA by Irving Sandler

Standing figure stele, 3rd century BC — 1st century AD, South Arabian.

Wield a 17th century BC Bronze Sword... and set the Gods free.

Finally, we encounter re-animated skeletons, spiders and more in the 4th century BC period.

The region named for the Via Emilia, the Roman road built in the 2nd century BC by the Marcus Emilius Lepidus.

These include the Roman theatre and the old city gate which are thought to date back to the third century BC.

The peninsula has been inhabited since the Bronze Age, and discoveries from the 7th - century BC Greek settlement (called Apollonia) can be seen in the town's excellent archaeological museum.

The site is as old as the 3rd century BC and served as a monastery as well as a royal residence over the years.

These stone monuments were built during the enigmatic Nuragic civilisation, which existed on Sardinia from the 18th century BC to the 2nd century AD.

It is said that the town was founded during the reign of King Pyrrhus of Epirus in the 3rd century BC to serve as a supply post during the war with Rome.

Lamanai meaning «submerged crocodile» in Yucatec Maya was occupied as early as the 16 century BC and is located in the Orange Walk District of Belize.

Historically, Antibes was an important trading centre, first for the Greeks who established a settlement here in the fifth century BC and subsequently for the Romans, under whom the city grew to become the largest in the region.

We visit the prehistoric Akrotiri — a Bronze Age settlement destroyed by a huge eruption in the 17th century BC, buried under the volcanic ash, preserving the whole city.

It was near here that a shipwreck was discovered as recently as 1989, uncovering a scarcely believable cargo of almost 1,000 trapezoidal lead ingots, each weighing 33 kg and inscribed by their Roman owners from the 1st century BC.

Dating back to the 5th century BC, the Mayan calendar's last cycle ends in December 2012, and many scholars have predicted that the world will end exactly on December 21, 2012 at 11:11 UTC.

Rome is the longest - running home of Jews in all of Europe — thanks to the less - happy fact that they were brought over as slaves in the 2nd century BC.

Chora (also known as Naxos Town) is a beautiful, historic town arranged around a stunning natural harbour guarded by a 6th - century BC gateway, the «Portara».