Sentences with phrase «over a millennia ago»

Once inside, people can clamber over rocks and splash through the water, while admiring stunning cave formations created over a millennium ago.

The Big Tree, with its huge, sprawling branches, is believed to have first sprouted over a millennia ago, making it quite possibly the oldest and largest tree in Texas — and its history is equally as remarkable.

Not exact matches

Until a little over a hundred years ago men were using the same means of travel as had been used for several millennia — the horse by land and the sailboat by water.

We've been cooking forever, but if you think about it, while technology and software have wormed their way into almost every aspect of our lives, cooking is still very, very primitive — we still cook over an open flame, like our ancestors millennia ago.

The intensification of winter storm activity in Alaska and Northwestern Canada started close to 300 years ago and is unprecedented in magnitude and duration over the past millennium, according to a new study from Dartmouth College.

Donald Johanson, the paleoanthropologist who found Lucy more than 40 years ago, noted that other fossils discovered nearby also appear damaged, possibly from a stampede, or from the weight of sediment and other material collecting over millennia.

Fossilized remains of the olive tree's ancestor were found near Livorno, in Italy, dating from twenty million years ago, although actual cultivation probably did not occur in that area until the fifth century B.C. Olives were first cultivated in the Eastern part of the Mediterranean, in the region known as the «fertile crescent,» and moved westwards over the millennia.

But that was ages ago, another millennium, in fact, and their diehard fans have been patiently awaiting the launch of another groundbreaking, sci - fi franchise over the intervening years.

While these numbers represent an improvement from twenty years ago, they have actually remained almost completely static over the past decade, suggesting that the post-Cold War march to democratization tapered off in the first years of the new millennium.

Considering that Ezekiel (apparently channeling a vitriolic God who's had it up to the back teeth with Jerusalem) references the expression as if it's a very old adage indeed, it would seem that the expression was in common use in the Middle East back in the 6th century B.C - over two and a half millennia ago.

Anyway, today we try to explain the exact opposite: how northern hemisphere ice ages can quite suddenly weaken — at least in case of the last one, which had its cold peak around 18,000 years ago, after which atmospheric CO2 levels «suddenly» (over a millennium or so) rose by 30 per cent, and temperatures started to climb closer * to our current Holocene values.

Socrates discovered over two millennia ago that questions are a righteous place to begin a quest for knowledge.

Based on the findings from wide - ranging studies of community variation (eg, why Aboriginal teen suicide and Aboriginal employment levels vary hugely from band to band; why seniors die during heat waves in some neighbourhoods and not others; why some watershed communities maintain sustainable agriculture over a millennium while others do not; why the United States biogenetic technology industry is now concentrated in only three places, compared with thirty areas a few decades ago) there is now a strong evidentiary base revealing common underlying characteristics of groups, at the nongovernmental level, that successfully address these challenges.