Greek wine and wine making is as ancient as the marble columns that line the Parthenon.
The rulers of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, ancient as they are, have made improvements.
Gigantic because the sturgeon, a bottom-feeding species as ancient as the dinosaur, can live for a century and grow to 25 feet.
Drink a beer in Bruges and you are actually touching history, as those brewing traditions are as ancient as the city itself.
It is as ancient as the entire mammalian line, he argues, engaging areas of the brain that developed in our distant ancestors over 100m years ago.
Offers of cash caused a surge of dopamine in a tiny piece of neural machinery called the nucleus accumbens--a structure as ancient as backbones that plays a key role in addiction.
Most evolutionists now accept that kindness might be just as ancient and innate as selfishness.
One of the aims of the institute, she says, is to find interconnections between ancient cultures as well as look at what the institute sees as under-represented ancient cultures -- and the culture of ancient Babylonian math, she says, is ripe for popular revision.
Both our recent and ancient history as a people is one continuous testament to this truth.
And so it is when you have such an ancient culture as the indigenous cultures in Australia.
More recently, the authorities tried to develop Bam by rebuilding the ancient town as a tourist attraction and by building a car factory on the edge of the desert.
It is no use professing to want zero problems with the neighbours without making a much broader effort to resolve such ancient quarrels as those with Armenia or over Cyprus.
It was here that two years ago archeologists announced the discovery of a large stone which Buddhists believe was placed by an ancient king as a monument to the birthplace of the Buddha.
Launched in 1983 as a pay channel, Disney showed ancient films such as Old Yeller and reruns of The Mickey Mouse Club.
The sites include features such as ancient hunting sites, wildflower-rich meadows and native woodland.
This was done by analysing the subtle distortions in the ancient light introduced as it passed by the matter.
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Sourdough is the oldest form of leavened bread and was used at least as early as ancient Egypt.
Kumiodori plays a central role in preserving ancient Okinawan vocabulary as well as transmitting literature, performing arts, history and ethics.
It is thus not an ancient title, as these things go, but the Herveys won royal favour and did well.
My husband, a resourceful fellow, turned to that now ancient technology known as the land line and called the closer facility.
Parades date back at least as far as ancient Egyptian culture.
But the island's one-of-a-kind culture is kept alive with activities and festivals that highlight ancient arts such as spear throwing, tobogganing, dancing and body painting.
Ancient Rome was as likely to turn up in a painting of Queen Elizabeth as an American Indian cherub (with ostrich) in an engraving of London.
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U. Throughout history, low fertility and societal and economic decline have been inextricably linked, affecting such once-vibrant civilizations as ancient Rome, 17th-century Venice and, now, contemporary Europe.
The idea that materialism "can cure men of the fear of God and the fear of death, " as Dr. Kass puts it, is at least as old as ancient Greece.
Boarding a vessel on the Nile is to peel back millennia and slow down to river speed as ancient temples, oxcarts and palm trees pass by, unaltered since Pharaohs ruled the roost.
Mr Miles has skilfully fused the works of ancient historians such as Polybius and Livy, a wide range of modern studies and recent archaeological research to create a convincing and enthralling narrative.
Maria Reiche, a German mathematician, spent more than half a century investigating and protecting 16 mysterious ancient drawings known as the Nazca Lines over a 60 kilometre (45 mile) area in the Peruvian desert.
He referenced botanical motifs and brocade patterns from civilizations as far back as ancient Greece, and moved up through the Baroque, the Enlightenment and Art Nouveau, taking side trips to Persia, Turkey and China.
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With a spectacular spotted coat, muscular body and jaws powerful enough to crush a human skull, the jaguar is a formidable feline, inspiring ancient cultures such as the Maya who depicted the cat in jewellery and ceramics.
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