Thor Heyerdahl may have been an intrepid sailor, but ancient South Americans apparently weren't.
But ancient Chinese wisdom teaches that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
All that is interesting as far as it goes, but ancient Rome and ancient Jerusalem were such different sorts of polity that questions arise about the legitimacy of the comparison.
Relatively new diseases like AIDS get most of the attention, but ancient killers once thought to be under control are on the rise in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and South America: malaria, tuberculosis, leishmaniasis (also known as dum-dum fever).
But the ancient Egyptians would also, it is said, ritually bury redheaded men alive.
But the ancient rite, common in the Nile Valley and other parts of Africa, has remained particularly prevalent in Egypt.
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But this ancient land is the holiest piece of real estate in the world for both Jews and Christians, and revered by Muslims.
But the ancient hunter-gatherer - whose sex is unclear - survived to tell the tale: the injury was completely healed by the time of the person's death.
But the ancient Thracian tribes who once ruled here loved the area, settling sites more than 2, 000 years ago that were later built up by conquering Romans and Byzantines.
But, also like ancient mariners (who knew their latitude, but not their longitude), such solar reckoning cannot tell them when to stop.
The development of the Carlsbad area began in the 1880s, which means that, apart from ancient but small settlements like Villanueva, the Carlsbad farmers defer to no one in water matters.
But just why ancient people created the Nazca Lines has been an enduring mystery: Some archaeologists have suggested it was an alien landing strip, a primitive sun calendar, or an irrigation system.
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All this might be ancient history but for the fact that not much appears to have changed.
Vietnam may have been divided between North and South, but it encompassed an ancient culture with common language and traditions.
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Listed as an archaeological site since 1935, Babylon has been partially excavated over the last century, but much of the ancient city remains to be discovered.
You could argue this is new language, begotten by the old but heard beyond the ancient barriers, and Thomas might agree language such as this might actually mean something.
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The recent leap in incomes is visible in Chinese cities, where the cars are new but the bicycles look ancient, and in the futuristic skyline of Shanghai's financial district.
But talking in the Ancient Iran room that houses the cylinder, Mr. Curtis is quick to say that it is an oversimplification to call the cylinder a Bill of Rights.
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It looked to be entirely overgrown, but Sopheng knew a trail that wound through the vines, bushes and branches to a hollow under the tower itself, where I was surprised to find not only ancient inscriptions but also fresh incense and candles.
Kahn admitted that ancient Roman vaults and arches were his inspiration, and by combining them with advanced engineering and a simple palette of materials concrete, travertine and white oak he created a place that is of the present but also invokes an ancient past.
Dough sculpting is an ancient craft, but the China-born artist is giving it a new twist.
They have been patched and expanded over the years, but the overall systems are ancient.
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All this is, of course, ancient history, but it is history with a point.
But just south of its ancient walls lies Getsemani, Cartagena's hippest neighbourhood and one of Latin America's newest hotspots.
This may sound like ancient history, but prior to 2007, Americans were extremely resistant, even hostile towards smartphones.
The EPA's flawed approaches to biotechnology regulation, which date from the 1980s, are ancient history, but there is a modern-day angle.
These lightshows of dying stars have been seen since ancient times, but modern astronomers use details of their light to probe the Universe's secrets.
But the opening of Aire Ancient Baths on March 15 makes me wonder, what did hedonistic Roman bath fans in the Big Apple do before this?
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