Sentences with phrase «fringe archaeological discoveries»

It was more that we are so familiar with the Greco - Roman gods, and it was harder to come up with ways that they could have come to the United States (although as I finished the book several fringe archaeological discoveries gave me ways I could have done it); and that the Norse myths are so bleak, and always end in Ragnarok... In your acknowledgments, you allude to the best line of dialogue in the epilogue, but you don't identify it.

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Now — nearly six millennia later — the unearthing of these remnants in what is now northeastern Syria is a spectacular archaeological find, one of several important discoveries made recently at Tell Brak, a 130 - foot - high mound jutting above the northern fringe of the Mesopotamian plain.