Sentences with phrase «other ancient objects»

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OKLAHOMA CITY — Thousands of ancient clay tablets, seals and other Iraqi archaeological objects that were smuggled into the U.S. and shipped to the head of arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby were returned to the Iraqi government on Wednesday.

In excavating for the works, a large number of animal remains, ancient coins, and other curious objects were found, most of which have been deposited in the British Museum.»

Reassured by his nondestructive technique, curators at the Smithsonian and several other museums agreed to let a team led by Moini sample silk objects spanning over 2000 years of history, from ancient Chinese silks and French Renaissance tapestries to a U.S. Civil War flag and silk spun last year.

New Horizons also could potentially take a close - up look at a smaller, more ancient object much farther out in the Kuiper Belt: the disk - shaped region beyond the orbit of Neptune believed to contain comets, asteroids and other small, icy bodies.

Others, known as globular clusters, are among the oldest objects in the Universe and contain up to a million ancient stars.

«If existing objects in space couldn't have combined to make Earth's unique mix of water and other elements, the planet must have formed from — and entirely depleted — an ancient supply of water - rich material that has no modern analog, Drake and Righter argue.»

Uranium dating is one of the ways of determining the age of ancient objects, even one million years old, by measuring how much of the following are present in them: the amount of radioactive isotopes of uranium, and the amount of other materials into which the radioactive isotopes would decompose.

The first words of the opening paragraph of the proclamation explained why the land warranted preservation, and read, «Whereas certain public islands lying off the coast of Southern California contain fossils of Pleistocene elephants and ancient trees, and furnish noteworthy examples of ancient volcanism, deposition, and active sea erosion, and have situated thereon various other objects of geological and scientific interest...»

«I think the Chozo artifacts and some of the other objects that appear through the franchise, probably some of that is inspired by the Egyptian cultures as other ancient civilizations.

Museum of Stones, a massive installation by Brancusi - influenced Isamu Noguchi, will be supplemented with fifty works by thirty other contemporary artists, as well as by fifteen ancient Chinese rock - related objects, which are on loan from the Met.

Other strengths include African, ancient American, and Oceanic art, and Jewish ceremonial objects.

Its permanent collection of more than 84,000 objects includes paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, costume, furniture, and other works of art from every part of the world, including objects from Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, and art of all periods from Asia, Europe, and the Americas, up to the latest in contemporary art.

The mural will be complemented by ancient to contemporary objects from the DMA's collection, including an ancestral Sikyatki Polychrome bowl with flower design and a modern kachina (katsina) doll of Palhikmana, among works by other contemporary Hopi artists.

Along with the subject's own work, Larsen and his team included a chair by Frank Lloyd Wright, a sculpture by Donald Judd, prints by Vasily Kandinsky and Roy Lichtenstein, ancient religious objects from India and Pakistan, and an array of other art and design pieces to contextualize Sottsass's wide - ranging influences.

One finds exquisite works by Jean Michel Basquiat, Vassily Kandinsky, Girgio de Chirico, Kazuo Shiraga and others juxtaposed with ancient objects and artefacts.

Other objects in the exhibition demonstrate the wide range of materials the ancient Egyptians used in their craft and artistic production, and the sophisticated techniques they perfected.