The magnificent buildings of antiquity fell into disrepair, or were pillaged for their contents.
The core manuscripts of antiquity were preserved by Islamic civilization, and to a lesser extent, by Irish monks.
Graham Thomas was in a gardening tradition that stretches back to Theophrastus, the most influential botanist of antiquity.
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Benares, or Baranas, was a city of antiquity and mythology in present-day India.
The altar's carved marble bas-relief sculptures commemorate victories in Gaul and Spain, and are among the great masterpieces of antiquity.
The show consists of his muscular, mostly monotone renditions of photos of broken statuary of antiquity, drawings he did in the 1980s.
"There are records of fights dating back to 3000 BC, and the sport was part of the Olympic Games of Antiquity, " the website says.
The exhibition, at the Basle Museum of Antiquity, features an eclectic choice of objects, from nearly a dozen Syrian museums, and ranging from neolithic idols to Mameluk armour.
What the creators of the original sculptures of antiquity would have seen every day on the streets of ancient Rome or Athens would undoubtedly have sent our grotesque-o-meters spinning.
Besides, thumos is no disused relic of antiquity.
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The latter, Timbuktu's oldest, was built in the early 14th century, while the Sankore, during its heyday, was said to have the largest collection of books in Africa since the Library of Alexandria of antiquity.
The swamps are finally drained and channeled today, in part courtesy of Mussolini, but the old, defensive pattern of settlement is still visible: Nearly every town of antiquity was built inland, on the hilltops, while an explosion of postwar development has crowded the once-deserted coasts.
Does she ever wonder whether raiding tombs to recover priceless treasures of lost antiquity is worth the body count?
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According to ancient records, the tomb was a repository of exquisite antiquity.
The modern suit's padded shoulder has the whiff of an epaulette while accentuating the V-shaped torso of classical antiquity so sought by Brummel.
The Ottoman powers in Athens cared nothing for the ruins of Greek antiquity, and had already pillaged them for building stone or bricked them up for gun-placements.
The provisions of the Iraqi Antiquity laws should be observed on the site of Babylon.
The new insight, published in the December issue of the journal Antiquity, came because two archaeologists decided to use a decidedly low-tech method to understand the sand drawing's ancient secrets: by walking it.
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This amazing series of 190 million year old nests gives us the first detailed look at dinosaur reproduction early in their evolutionary history, and documents the antiquity of nesting strategies that are only known much later in the dinosaur record.
The Geopark's outstanding historical contribution, both in terms of the development of geological and archaeological sciences is astounding: from the Huttonian Theory, to the naming of the Devonian Period by Sedgwick and Murchison, and even Pengelly's discoveries informing worldwide public opinion as to the antiquity of man.
Conflicts between poorer peoples and richer neighbors have been part of human history since antiquity.
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Both parties claim that the islands have been part, since antiquity, of their cultural and political sphere.
It consists of poetry (often the briefest of fragments), a selection of essays, including several about authors from classical antiquity, and even the libretto of an opera.
Today a growing body of scientific literature confirms that antiquity was onto something.
He was intrigued by the obsession with death and the strain of cruelty which ran through its antiquity, fine arts and vernacular culture.
This shared direct line to antiquity can form the basis of a strong bilateral relationship.
Change came much more slowly in antiquity than it does today, but antiquity provides some interesting examples of the difference between fundamental and incremental change.
There's since been a lot of talk about modernizing a sport rooted in antiquity and upgraded wrestler introductions for the finals were a big hit to the sellout crowd.
Foreign museum directors wish to keep ties with Turkish museums, but if all objects from antiquity were to be repatriated to their land of origin, as Mr Gunay suggests, what justification is there for institutions such as the Met, the Louvre and the BM?
Mr Hilleman's greatest contribution to a healthy world may have been his work on the safe mass production of vaccines that can be stored ready for use against the pandemics that since antiquity have regularly swept across continents, such as the 1918 flu outbreak that killed more than 20m people.
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