Sentences with phrase «year old artifact»

But experts consulted by BAR and Christianity Today seem satisfied that it really is a 2,000 - year old artifact.

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Housed in a former Bethlehem Steel facility that is more than 100 years old, the National Museum of Industrial History is a shrine to America's industrial history, displaying industrial artifacts from a variety of industries.

CT's coverage of terrorism against Christians includes the viral video of a 10 - year - old Iraqi girl forgiving ISIS, how modern - day «Monuments Men» are trying to save Biblical - era artifacts from ISIS, and the death of the first American volunteer to die fighting terrorism in Iraq and Syria.

She writes: «Any museum curator worth his weight in Roman coins would choke at the thought of throwing away a 400 - year - old artifact.

Any museum curator worth his weight in Roman coins would choke at the thought of throwing away a 400 - year - old artifact.

George Lois, an 84 - year - old influential Madison Avenue art director and the creative force behind scores of famous advertising campaigns, is sending the collection of ad - related artifacts from his long career to CUNY.

Blombos Cave, South Africa: Dated to about 100,000 years ago, ochre - processing «tool kits» and other artifacts found at the site — including an engraved piece of ochre, the oldest known art of its type — suggest early humans were capable of modern, complex behaviors much earlier than once thought.

The artifact, more than 2,000 years old, dates to the Egyptian Ptolemaic period.

AMERICAN MADE A 18,500 - to 17,000 - year - old stone artifact unearthed at Chile's Monte Verde site, shown from the side (left) and top (right), contains smooth areas where pieces of the rock were struck off to create a scraping or cutting tool.

In July, however, a team reported in Nature that thousands of artifacts from a Northern Australia site were about 65,000 years old.

They found stone artifacts — mostly flakes that were dropped as hominins knapped rocks to create tools for butchering animals — lying in sediments almost 1.85 million years old.

In addition to hundreds of carvings of human faces approximately 3,000 to 7,000 years old, Lima also discovered pottery artifacts suggesting a network of connected villages covering the central Amazon.

But in recent years, potentially older artifacts have turned up at a handful of sites, including Monte Verde in southern Chile and the Debra L. Friedkin site in central Texas, suggesting that people lived in the Americas long before the Clovis technology turned up.

Radiocarbon and other dating methods also helped establish that the artifacts — stone blade fragments, scrapers, shell ornaments, a bone awl, and various digging and carving tools — are an astonishing 42,000 to 45,000 years old.

3.3 - million - year - old artifacts from Kenya upend the classic story of when and how humans became innovators

There, the energetic 36 - year - old anthropologist unlocks a glass case and begins arranging human skulls and other skeletal artifacts — some genuine fossils, others high - quality reproductions — on a counter according to their age.

Scientists working in the desert badlands of northwestern Kenya have found stone tools dating back 3.3 million years, long before the advent of modern humans, and by far the oldest such artifacts yet discovered.

One of the most celebrated artifacts in mathematics is a palm - sized cuneiform tablet made during the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4000 years ago in modern - day Iraq.

Sammy Lokorodi, a resident of Kenya's northwestern desert who works as a fossil and artifact hunter, led the way to a trove of 3.3 million - year - old tools.

Mayan artifacts and human bones that appear to be at least 9,000 years old were found in Mexico's Sac Actun, the largest underwater cave system in the world.

Not by Babylonian standards Archaeology's Top Ten Discoveries of 2010 «New» Old Human Ancestors: Siberia's Denisovians Macchu Pichu Artifacts Being Returned by Yale World's Oldest Champagne Tastes Sweet After 200 - Year Shipwreck Did Cavemen Make Bread?

We may not be scaling the diplodocus, or touching Monet's Water - Lilies, but drinking and letting your hair down next to priceless artifacts still gives a little fist pump to the five year old you and makes for a great date night atmosphere.

MacAskills 115 year old home displays over 100 hand tinted photographs and artifacts dating back to the early days of photography.

250 - year - old Georgian structure and contains artifacts dating from 17th century Waterford to the presen.

Carbon - 14 dating is a way of determining the age of certain archeological artifacts of a biological origin up to about 50,000 years old.

Adventure Club (Unrated) Sci - fi fantasy about a trio of ten year - old BFFs (Dalila Bella, Jakob Davies and Sam Ashe Arnold) who end up on the run from several shady characters after finding an ancient artifact capable of granting wishes.

Some of the 36,000 artifacts on display include a slave cabin from the early 1800s and an 1835 bill of sale for a 16 - year old African American girl.

Twelve - year - old Londoner Agatha — along with her butler Chandler, cousin Dash, and cat Watson — travels to Egypt to recover a missing artifact in this series opener.

Twelve - year - old Londoner Agatha Mistery surrounds herself with a cast of sleuths who solve well - plotted mysteries like this one, which involves a missing Egyptian artifact.

While investigating the theft of a 4000 - year - old biblical artifact, a federal agent finds herself hunting an international fugitive who threatens Las Vegas with a nuclear device if a ransom from all the casinos is not paid.

Miniature greyhounds are seen in 2,000 - year - old artifacts from what's now modern - day Turkey and Greece, and archaeological digs have turned up small Greyhound skeletons.

Mayan artifacts have been found here, along with 12,000 - year - old human bones.

The Katmai National Park and Preserve museum collection consists of more than 400,000 objects — from an paleontological samples to 9,000 - year - old artifacts.

Other artifacts include Sumerian cuneiform clay tablets (some of the world's oldest writing), Egyptian mummies, a crystal ball owned by China's Dowager Empress, monumental stone sculptures from the ancient Maya and 4,500 - year - old jewelry from the Royal Cemetery at Ur.

Many of the art and artifacts on display come from early expeditions: Sumerian cuneiform clay tablets (with some of the world's oldest writing), architectural elements from the 3,200 - year - old palace of the Pharaoh Merenptah, towering ancient Maya stone monuments, evocative masks from West Africa, Buddhist sculptures from China and Native American regalia.

Today, cave explorers can still see Mayan artifacts, like 1,200 - year - old pottery shards and skeletal remains.

During this same month, Gerhard Richter and Georg Baselitz threatened to withdraw their art works on loan to several German museums in protest of a proposed new German law that would result in stronger oversight over imported cultural artifacts and tighten export restrictions for cultural assets that are more than fifty years old or valued at more than $ 162,000.

Among those are Humma Babba's post-apocalyptic artifacts, Tacita Dean's apocalyptic photogravures, and Guillermo Faivovich and Nicolas Goldberg's two halves of a 4,000 year old sacred meteorite.

All artworks or artifacts valued at more than 150,000 euro ($ 164,000) and older the 50 years would have to be approved for export by boards set up in each German state.

In her video, the 34 - year - old Parisian artist presents footage of these artifacts — and of herself rummaging through the archives — in windows that pop up on the screen (as on a computer desktop) while a voiceover raps out a crazy quilt of creation myths over a drumbeat.

Late last week the German Culture Minister, Monika Gütter, announced a plan that would aim to preserve the country's artistic heritage through restricted circulation of German art — requiring that artifacts valued at $ 150,000 ($ 165,900) or more or that are more than 50 years old receive an export license before leaving the country.

Did you notice recent reports that thousand year old vegetation has been exposed by a receding glacier in Greenland, or that Roman artifacts have been exposed by receding glaciers in Switzerland?

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If by coincidence, certain years are sampled mostly or only from very old trees, this might cause peaks and troughs in the «year effects» that are purely artifacts of the method.

Human - made artifacts expressing these natural occurrences can be riveting, like this collection of embroidered spheres made by an 88 - year - old Japanese grandmother, who started crafting these in her sixties.