Sentences with phrase «walls of the caves in»

It's not the first time Neanderthals have been put forward as artists: earlier this year, it was claimed that they were the ones who painted seals on the wall of a cave in southern Spain, though this remains contentious.

The work (priced at $ 11,000) sees a video monitor play subtitles from Marguerite Duras's 1979 short film, Les Mains négatives, which describe the prehistoric handprints found on the walls of caves in Southern Europe.

Not exact matches

To prove that he is correct and that the oven is pure, Rabbi Eliezer calls on God to perform miracles in the presence of his colleagues — a carob tree is uprooted and moves across a field, a river reverses its course, and the walls of the rabbis» study hall magically begin to cave in — but the rabbis remain unmoved.

The wall painting in said caves were of bison, horses, aurochs, and deer common to the area.

This reminds me of the scene in «Monty Python and the Holy Grail» where they're trying to read the inscription on the cave wall.

in the craft cave of my dreams, walls are lined with spools and spools of candy striped string.

And in a third cave, patches of red paint were applied to the walls at least 65,500 years ago, with more paintings added over a period of 25,000 years or more — signaling a long Neandertal tradition of cave art, the researchers say.

Numerous storage jars and lids from the Second Temple period were found hidden in niches along the walls of the cave and deep inside a long tunnel at its rear.

Ancient cave bears, which roamed from the United Kingdom to Russia for hundreds of thousands of years, made a strong impression on Stone Age artists, who included them in a 30,000 - year - old gallery of animals lining the walls of Chauvet cave in modern France.

The door, just uphill from the Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory, leads into a cave that looks like the villain's lair in a James Bond film: the uneven stone walls painted white, an array of shiny instruments strewn about.

Now, the classification of these enigmatic snails from the moist, muddy cave walls underneath the Basque - Cantabrian Mountians has been published in the open access journal ZooKeys.

«My moment of epiphany came 20 years ago when I was in a CAVE [a virtual reality room with images projected onto the walls] at the supercomputer center in Illinois,» he says.

Thousands of years ago, people on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia spray - painted stencils of their hands on the walls and roofs of caves by blowing red paint out of their mouths.

Neanderthals built one of the world's oldest constructions — 176,000 - year - old semicircular walls of stalagmites in the bowels of a cave in southwest France.

Snow and cold air enter the caves through openings at the top and are then unable to escape, creating a refrigerated environment in which some of the walls and floors become covered in solid ice.

On the walls of these giant caverns are bison, bears, horses, and rhinos, drawn in ocher and charcoal 30,000 years ago; they predate the celebrated Lascaux cave paintings by some 10,000 years.

But bubbles change the levels of buoyancy in the cave, which affects the stability of the rock and sediment that make up the ceiling and walls.

In many other ways, this was a typical cave of the time, complete with wall paintings of horses, human burials, and Stone Age tools.

Found on the walls of caves and in other dark damp places, New Zealand's glow worms Arachnocampa luminosa are the larvae for the fungus gnat.

Although your moments of running head first into brick walls and experiencing lengths of time where you'll feel the world caving in aren't over, you'll survive — and your mom will be cheering you on as you do so.

In a climactic scene set in the basement of the lighthouse — a cave filled with walls of tar — Lena encounters a mass of energIn a climactic scene set in the basement of the lighthouse — a cave filled with walls of tar — Lena encounters a mass of energin the basement of the lighthouse — a cave filled with walls of tar — Lena encounters a mass of energy.

A rabbit makes a shadow puppet of a predator on a large stone wall and cave people run in fear.

Up high along the cave's walls, swiftlet birds zoom in and out of their nests.

Who needs to see the latest episode of «Star Wars» when you can get similar thrills by watching the demolition of a Florida house with walls caving in and especially the total collapse of a swimming pool which becomes buried?

Great emphasis is placed on matters of time: FedEx wants everything to be delivered on time, Hanks places a timer in a package to determine how long it took to be delivered, he is given a timepiece by his girlfriend, he measures the time on the wall of the island cave, etc..

But after the hunt, to dip your hand in crimson dye and mark the wall of your murmuring cave.

Most of the homes remain as the water left them, with caved - in walls, blue tarp roofs, and rubble - filled yards.

Chalk was used all the way back in prehistoric times to draw on cave walls; and, paired with a piece of slate, had been used for centuries as a temporary way to record information, not just for students but also in other situations such as tracking goods and by sailors to calculate their location while at sea.

Chalk was used all the way back in prehistoric times to draw on cave walls; and, paired with a piece of slate, had been used for centuries as a temporary way to record information, not just for students but also in...

As she finds herself sitting alone in the cave in darkness, she contemplates the profound signifying power of the spiraling shapes she sees not only on the walls before her flame goes out but also in front of her eyes, a result of her brain generating visual signals in the pitch black.

The history of this breed begins with drawings on the walls of ancient caves in southern Africa.

There is no fishing in this area but be thrilled by some of the best drift, wall and cave dives in Western Australia.

But the guided trip with Venture Quest Kayaking, which follows seven downwind miles from Four Mile Beach to Santa Cruz Wharf, rewards fitness with the thrill of sneaking through what's known as the «Hole in the Wall» cave — more like a 150 - foot - long tunnel the width of two Dodge vans — that's sheltered from the swells.

Over 40 000 individual San rock paintings grace overhangs and walls, some of them in overnight caves.

The caves form in limestone although there may be bands of shale or chert visible in the cave walls along with mud, sand and boulder deposits on the cave floor.

The presence of 11 minerals, scientifically and aesthetically unique speleothems, and a 20 million year old Serenia fossil embedded in the walls of the cave justifies the declaration of the Puerto Princesa Underground River as one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature.The Park also contains a full mountain to sea ecosystems and protects forests that are important for biodiversity conservation.

As a travel journalist for 17 years some of my favorite experiences have been climbing The Great Wall in China, swam with Stingrays in Bora - Bora, explored caves in Belize, followed a pod of Orcas in Alaska, swam in the warm waters of Krabi in Thailand, visited Marco Polo's house in Korcula, Croatia and sailing around Richard Branson's Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands.

Franz Josef Glacier Guides will take you deep in the heart of the glacier where you can squeeze through tight blue crevasses, slide through ice caves or even «franz shuffle» down near vertical walls of ice.

The nests are burrows or caves in the walls of the crater.

Located in the state of San Luis Potosí, A multitude of birds, mainly swifts and green parakeets, make their home in the cave walls, giving the cave its name.

The diving, the walls, caverns, and caves in particular, was fantastic and I gained enormous amounts of experience on a daily basis.

The best of the month: • Trekking in the Great Wall of China • Exploring Yungang Caves • Kung - fu Show at the Shaolin Temple • Terracotta Army

Fall for the curved white walls and domed ceilings of one of the area's traditional cave houses, furnished to provide the ultimate in luxury and comfort for your vacation.

We visit many of our famous wrecks as well as Sea caves and beautiful deep walls, some of the best scuba diving in Hawaii.

Experienced divers will delight in a network of caves, vertical walls, arches and tunnels at Los Morros de Potosi.

Misool offers all the comforts of a land - based holiday resort, the variety and quality of diving is comparable with liveaboard diving, The diversity of Raja Ampat's underwater topography is simply astounding, abounding in all manner of reef systems with walls, pinnacles, caves, swim throughs, sea mounts and lagoons.

Almost all the separate regions of Sardinia are great for kids: Alghero in the Northwest is an ancient town with ancient walls, with nooks and crannies to explore, nature parks to romp around in and beaches lined with mysterious caves.

Learn first - hand from the Kuku Yalanji people how their history is steeped in the roots of the trees, the paintings on the walls of their caves to the backdrop of the mountains behind.

Visually it reminded me a lot of Assassin's Creed Black Flag which is pretty good, but what really blew me away were the tiny details like Drake putting his hand up when his head got too close to the rocks passing through the cave, or when in combat, he gets slammed against the wall and the tiny stream of water going down the rocks made his hair and upper body wet.

This year's Rise of the Tomb Raider was presented in a closed booth with a host of gaming stations that were surrounded by spider webs, rock cave walls and overhead debris.