Sentences with phrase «more ancient documents»
Seales» ability to decode CT scans of ancient carbonized texts may open the door to recovering many more ancient documents, including an entire library of a Roman villa destroyed in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 73 A.D., as well as discarded papyrus documents used to create Egyptian mummy casings.
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Then, instead of reading like the «Around Home» section or the obituary column of a small - town newspaper, it could have provided a more worthy document of the life and times of the ancient world, a register of the designs and deeds of the truly great men and nations of the ancient Near East.
In ancient and biblical times, the word is often used regarding things like children who recovered from sickness, a battle which was won, or a successful trading voyage (See my article on the gospel where I document this in more detail).
Our earliest copies of those documents are more plentiful and closer to the time of Jesus than the histories of many major figures of the ancient world (whom the general public seem to have no problem believing in).
Nowhere is this ancient conflict more clearly documented than in the Old Testament itself.
It is significant that interpreters, both of the Old and the New Testaments, have been able to determine much more clearly and precisely the «Eigenart» of these documents and their views of God, world, and men on the basis of studies in the religions of the ancient Near East than could be done before the discoveries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
As to when this idea that people weren't actually JUST heterosexual is a little more difficult to point to because same - sex relationships are all over ancient documents but it appears the concept came about circa - 1700s and the actual word homosexual came out a century and a half later.
It is increasingly clear that Deuteronomy and the Priestly writings contain at least some material much older than is indicated by the usual dating of the documents.9 Increasingly, too, it would appear that scholars are disposed to accept the substantial reliability of the persistent tradition which sees Moses as a lawgiver.10 That law was an early and significant aspect of Israelite culture is further attested not only by ancient Near Eastern parallels but even more strikingly in the life, the work and the character of the first three great names in Israel's national history: Moses, Samuel and Elijah.
Scientists have claimed that they have found illustrations for ancient home remedies in a document that... More
Dusseault explained that court rules — not he — designates documents more than 20 years old as «ancient.»
More than 500 seismologists and geologists worked for 6 years, using satellite measurements, field surveys, historical records of earthquakes, and geologic evidence of ancient ground motions to document the hazards for all land areas on Earth, says the project's director, Domenico Giardini of the Swiss Seismological Service in Zürich.
Previously documented migrations of West African farmers to East Africa around 2,000 years ago, and then to southern Africa around 1,500 years ago, reshaped Africans» genetics — and obscured ancient ancestry patterns — more than has been known, the researchers report online September 28 in Science.
Previous attempts to get DNA from parchment did not work well, but by using modern sequencing techniques, researchers can now get abundant livestock DNA from parchment, such as the 16th century deed from Lancashire, U.K., shown above, the team reports online today in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Not only is parchment plentiful, but as a legal document, it also has been carefully stored and often dated, making it a more readily available source of ancient DNA than bones.
Collagen - related problems are well documented in nature, and are much more ancient than human culture (Ackernecht 1953).
In dogs, the term breed is used two ways: loosely, to refer to dog types or landraces of dog (also called natural breeds or ancient breeds); or more precisely, to refer to modern breeds of dog, which are documented so as to be known to be descended from specific ancestors, that closely resemble others of their breed in appearance, movement, way of working and other characters; and that reproduce with offspring closely resembling each other and their parents.
As far back as 600 B.C., Orbasis of ancient Lydia documented that riding horses was more than just a form of transportation and noted the value that it had on those with handicaps.
More than 70 works, from ancient Egypt through the Renaissance and to modern times, document the cat as a source of artistic inspiration.
The museum is more explicit than most in documenting colonization along with exhibiting First Nations «cultural artifacts», both ancient and contemporary.