If, like us, you struggle to read the front of the Corn Flakes box of a morning, you likely gave up any hope of cracking ancient codes long ago.
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They are making connections across old borders, breaking down traditional barriers, crossing ancient divides and smashing long-established walls of prejudice.
Whichever ancient Mayans devised this long, long con are probably laughing at us from their perch in Mayan heaven right now.
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Locals here have long stashed ancient documents under the brick floors of their houses, or under furniture, out of an enduring fear of invading armies.
Since ancient Egypt, if not long before, hats have served the practical (protection against heat and cold) and the symbolic (religious function, military rank, social status).
Long barrows are ancient Neolithic burial sites from about 6, 000 years ago, but radio carbon dating has shown the bones date to between 1523 and 1799.
By the mid-1940s he had published three historical novels set in ancient Egypt, and planned a long further series.
Antiquities Minister Muhammad Ibrahim reopened the Pyramid of Chefren (Khafre) and six ancient tombs at Giza after a long restoration project.
One of the Middle East's most scenic and ancient routes, the 280km-long highway is often overlooked in favour of the modern Desert Highway, which marches through Jordan's flat and sandy core in a speedy three and a half hours from the capital, Amman.
Nai Mong Hoi Thod (539 Thanon Plaeang Nahm) sells nothing but oyster omelettes, crisp from tapioca flour and long-frying on an ancient, seasoned wok in rendered pork fat.
Like the ancient philosophers or medieval mystics, we long to perceive the secret and idiosyncratic pattern within chaos, the singular currents running through the tumultuous sea.
Georgia's long history is reflected in its ancient Georgian Orthodox churches and remote mountain villages.
Ancient civilizations, and cracking the code of long-lost languages is usually the reserve of Hollywood, or a good old-fashioned book.
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Alexander Haddad, a 66-year-old resident of the mountain hamlet of Maalula, is concerned about the fate of his ancient Christian community, but he takes the long view.
Under an even more ancient principle, known as subrogation, courts long held that if a customer doesn't have a case against a product that injured him, his insurer doesn't have a case either.
The site has been under excavation since the late nineteenth century, so that all of its surviving monuments have been unearthed and to some extent restored, though its ancient harbor, the Lion Port, has long been silted up, leaving Miletus marooned miles from the sea.
The company he took over was a wreck: ancient recipes, a barely functioning call center, nine long-suffering franchisees.
It was a fitting finale to the journey: Turkey's eastern border, perhaps to be Europe's new eastern frontier, ancient churches and mosques rising like tombstones out of the long wild grass.
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There were no signs of the fleets of ancient Renault 4's that Malagasy taxi drivers kept alive long after they should have been consigned to the scrapheap.
Once traffic is restored--it could take six months or more to get back up to prestorm levels--the long-term fix for New Orleans lies in the ancient coastal wetlands that suck up the rain and storm surges that periodically imperil the city.
Mr. Carpenter, who was appointed curator of Japanese art in July 2011, devotes about a fifth of the permanent exhibition space to ancient artifacts and Buddhist art and uses the remaining galleries to stage six-month-long installations, each illustrating an aspect of Japanese art.
Carrie Mae Weems does nothing to hide the operatic stage machinery behind "When and Where I Enter-Ancient Rome, " her 2008 black-and-white photograph of a woman in a long gown silhouetted at a picture window.
But if Curiosity could make the definitive identification of organics in Gale Crater, it would be a eureka moment and go a long way towards demonstrating that the Red Planet did indeed have habitable environments in its ancient past.
Families, clans, villagers, royalty, fishermen and rice farmers - most are guided by a trust in karma and a set of ancient rituals followed in the many thousands of temples spread across this island, which is barely 90 miles long.
In 1994, Wade and Bob Brier, a professor of philosophy and Egyptology at Long Island University, took a human body that had been willed to science and mummified it following the ancient procedures of mummification outlined in ancient Egyptian lore.
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