Sentences with phrase «century documents found»

We know how traders worked without enforceable laws of contract in the Middle Ages partly because of «an extraordinary cache of eleventh - century documents found in an ancient synagogue in old Cairo».

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The first person to do so at length was Augustine, whose Confessions, written in the late fourth century, is regarded as the founding document of autobiography, spiritual and secular.

I find the document very disturbing myself and have occupied myself recently with Anti-semitism through the centuries and read the most thorough and recent Luther biography (Martin Brecht, see Amazon) and come up with some observations.

There have been rumors for centuries that documents such as those mentioned in # 1 have been found and either destroyed or hidden.

There is a well - known tradition, which is appropriate to the mystical atmosphere of these two tenth - century documents, that the founding saints of Java unanimously condemned one of their number, Seh Siti Djenar, who taught the hidden knowledge and neglected the performance of the Friday public worship, and also asserted that he and God were identical.

Sixteen years into the 21st century, the FBI possesses the most remarkable ability to find documents that civilians think they have safely deleted.

A stone slab documenting his presence was found in a trench in the 20th century.

It can be difficult to find material that is reliably documented from pre-Dynastic Egypt, but textile expert Jana Jones of Australia's Macquarie University managed to identify the perfect specimen at the Bolton Museum, north of Manchester, England: fragmentary funerary wrappings more than 6,000 years old, collected in the early 20th century from a region of Upper Egypt.

With few traces of the original building still remaining, echoes of the life of the chapel can only be found in centuries - old documents in parliamentary and national archives.

The earliest of the numerical murals, created in the ninth century, are the oldest Mayan astronomical tables ever found, and the place where they were created is the first documented Mayan office space.

The findings document an unprecedented shift versus the previous three centuries, not only painting a bleak picture for the future of the of the lake and its catchment, but also challenge scientists» expectations of how such a large system could respond so rapidly to a one - degree rise.

The colonization history of the Pyrenean rocket is well documented, explains postdoctoral researcher and corresponding author Katrien Vandepitte (Plant Conservation and Population Biology Research Group): «We found dried specimens of the Pyrenean rocket in herbaria from the 19th and 20th centuries and were able to isolate DNA from these samples.

The influx of nomadic populations into east - central Europe in the fifth century AD may have caused enormous political upheaval and documented episodes of violence, but isotopic evidence shows people finding strategies to mitigate and perhaps even to benefit from these changes by modifying their subsistence economies.»

The Sinclair paper documents, in detail, that between 1855 and through the mid-20th century — over 100 years and covering more than a dozen scientific studies — the Inuit consumed a diet very high in protein, high in fat and low in carbohydrates with no detectable ketosis found or expected.

I understand that those slim 20th - century periodicals, which recounted the exploits of heroes in colored and paneled storyboards, are now the founding documents of our popular culture, and that we must revisit them each summer with solemn pomp, like ancient Norsemen making their annual pilgrimage.

Within this 21st - century toolkit, you will find a collection of evidence - based tools, strategies, videos, and supporting documents that will make your transition to the CCSS smoother and more beneficial to students.

You can find this breed in historical documents dating back to the 15th century.

The word «komondor» can be found in Hungarian documents dating from the 16th century, though reference to large sheepdogs predate that.

In an immersive installation documenting her 2012 — 13 residency at Germany's Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, founded in 1710, several dozen dreamlike amalgamations of 18th - century figurines and tableware reinterpret porcelain slip - casting by foregrounding its molds.

The acclaimed master had been forgotten for centuries when documents found in the Tallinn city archives identified this historical individual a few decades ago.

Munch's expressive and intensely personal treatment of psychological turmoil over a century ago finds in our era an equivalent in the selfie and Facebook, where intimate moments are documented, made public, discussed and analyzed.

«Imponderable» is a combination of a 90 - minute film with a exhibition of «findings» culled from Tony Oursler's extensive research (and personal collection) representing a trove of over 2,500 photographs, documents, publications and unique objects that track a social, spiritual, and intellectual history dating to the early 18th century.

Re # 158 (Sashka): I read the document you linked to at http://www.aei-brookings.org/admin/authorpdfs/page.php?id=236 and found out that the $ 5T number you claimed as the cost of Kyoto compliance is not that at all, but is actually Bjorn Lomborg's quote of Nordhaus» figure for how much it would cost to pay for global warming - caused damage in the developing world over the course of the current century if nothing were done to impede the warming.

If you look at Figure1 in the Hansen document cited by Judith Curry, you can find lots of mini cooling periods during the 20th Century.

As things stand we can find out more easily what went on in the 1920s, 30s, 40s and 50s than we can about what happened in the early years of this century because our key documents from that time were on paper and archived — unlike our more recent work which is buried on servers, outdated formats, or just lost.

The California case, Field v. Century 21 Klowden - Forness Realty, found that a broker in a fiduciary relationship with the buyer may be required to examine such things as public records and title documents for the buyer, as opposed to a seller's broker, who has no such duty.