We think of Venice, Paris, Amsterdam, or London, or even quainter, more ancient well-preserved places.
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.
Although the ancient Egyptians were well-known for their mummification practices, other cultures also used special embalming procedures to preserve their dead.
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Kumiodori plays a central role in preserving ancient Okinawan vocabulary as well as transmitting literature, performing arts, history and ethics.
The blend of ancient with modern fits well with the young, vibrant and culturally diverse crowd that hangs out in the local cafes, shops and galleries.
Amid the astonishing bustle in this ancient metropolis, where well-heeled bottle-blondes with cigarettes, headscarved women and mustachioed men holding worry beads weave through winding streets choked with traffic, that is clear.
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Nayder says it ties in very well with the ancient Roman tradition of honoring vegetation on May Day.
Just 45 minutes from Beirut is Byblos, a historic coastal city with stunning ancient Roman ruins and a well-preserved Crusader-era castle.
In Bolzano, Italy, the EURAC-Institute for Mummies and the Iceman was recently created to investigate ancient DNA in mummies as well as the famous Iceman, found in the Alps in 1991.
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For others, a game like Sissyfight, or a magazine like Word, might as well have come from ancient Greece.
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To substitute for fossils, and thus reconstruct the ancient branches of the tree as well as the modern-day leaves, Dr Dunn used mathematically informed guesswork.
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Located just outside the ancient market town of Forres, the well-preserved Victorian distillery was the last one to be built in the 19th Century.
As it turns out, ancient wisdom can be modern wisdom as well.
There is also racing of purebred Arabian salukis, the slender sight-hound that is one of the world's most ancient breeds of domesticated dog, as well as handicrafts displays.
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Not only is Oahu's largest temple located nearby at Pu'u o Mahuka Heiau State Monument, but so are the archeological remains of some 78 ancient religious sites and shrines, as well as fishponds, and a waterfall and pool where you can swim.
The ancient Greeks - and other ancients - knew well of the benefits of physical activities.
Acrobatics hasn't historically been a well-regarded profession in this ancient land, says Sun Wenjing, who owns and operates the Yilin acrobatic school with her husband.
This is an Indo-European concoction, derived from avancer, French for "to advance, " and the word sthapna, which means "well grounded" in Sanskrit, the ancient Indian language.
Images include paintings, photographs, models, sculptures as well as fossils, clothes, weaponry and ancient maps.
Under attack, after all, is not the idea of divinity as such but a representation of God deriving from an ancient folktale which exists in Persian, Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian variants as well as in Hebrew.
The white clapboard buildings and glass-fronted clubhouse complete a picture of polo that is found from Long Island in the U.S. to Palermo, Argentina places for the wealthy and well-connected to be seen and to take part in an ancient sport.
It is thus not an ancient title, as these things go, but the Herveys won royal favour and did well.
It originated among ancient Celts for whom the natural world was a wilderness that brought them death and danger as well as sustaining life.
Families flock here because there are so many dedicated activities for kids and so many for adults as well including snorkeling trips and sightseeing the ruins in the area, such as the city of ancient Messene and the 13th century B.
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The Gettys' palace, with its four courtyards, ancient harem and great green-glazed garden court, still retained much of its 19th-century grandeur, as well as decorative traces from the '20s and '30s.
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