It is also a reminder of an itinerant merchant tradition of the ancient Chinese caravans.
Few of the most creative societies of the ancient world, after all, were free.
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Earlier this year the archbishop of the ancient Chaldean church was abducted in Mosul and murdered.
Ammonites were free-swimming molluscs of the ancient oceans, living around the same time as dinosaurs.
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Its transparent grid defers to the pillar-and-architrave opacity of the ancient stone building without mimicking it.
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Tour guide Hussein Al-Ammari says an oil pipeline runs through the eastern part of the ancient city.
Many of the ancient hierarchical world empires (Egypt, Babylon, etc.) have fat chapters in history of mathematics texts.
The foundations of knowledge of the ancient world which informs the understanding of the modern world are biblical in origin.
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The results are now on exhibition at New York's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.
The sizes and shapes will give them clues to the speed and distance of the ancient water flow.
Travellers from all over the world guard what is left of the ancient cities from the invasion of modern five-star accommodation.
On it is the earliest truly extensive documented set of laws of the ancient world, written in Akkadian.
High schools teach sections of the ancient text, in its classical Japanese, to prepare pupils for university entrance.
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The mines in the south-west of the province were one of the ancient world's main sources of the metal.
Only 2% of the ancient city has been excavated, but those buried historical treasures are threatened by encroaching development.
He is also director of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain (AHOB) project.
Participants will be trained as members of a team in archaeological excavations of the ancient shipwrecks for on-site training.
Smaller pieces better evoke the urbanity and refined aesthetics of the ancient city.
They convened in a white tent in the shadow of the restored remains of the ancient Ur ziggurat, or observatory.
Hillah is the modern location of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the hanging gardens of Babylon.
"Noh Mul had been one of the ancient monuments with the greatest tourism development potential in northern Belize, " the association said.
It is one of three options being explored by the Royal Commission of the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS).
The evening ends with a gourmet dinner under the stars, next one of the ancient temples, with performances from local dancers.
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In voting to kill a tradition that was at the center of the ancient Greek Olympics from the eighth century B.
To understand the nutrient composition of the ancient oceans, it's important to know which iron minerals were around at the time.
The BBC was expelled this year because of Taleban anger over coverage of their destruction of the ancient Buddhist statues at Bamian.
Morgan said the origin of the ancient floodwaters likely came from a deep reservoir and were possibly unleashed by a volcanic eruption.
Arfon is the most densely populated and the county council head offices are in Caernarfon in the shadow of the ancient castle.
The Czech Republic consists of the ancient provinces of Bohemia and Moravia, with a mountainous rim on its western border with Germany.
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