Mountains hewn, carved and hacked from the ancient foundations of Earth swept to the horizon.
The diamond came from the ancient Golconda mines, where the famous Koh-i-Noor and blue Hope Diamond originated.
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This enormous American sporting event is the only spectacle of its kind that takes its nomenclature from the ancient Romans.
The largest Christian population in the Middle East is the Egyptian community of Copts - Christians descended from the ancient Egyptians.
Everything from the ancient brass light switches and the copper bathtubs to the 12-foot alligator floor piece was hoarded by the peripatetic Mr. Yeh.
Across the moor from the the ancient family seat, the 14th-century Cawdor Castle, is Carnoch, the shepherd's summer dwelling that dates back to the 1890s.
The race, which began inauspiciously with eight runners in 2004, takes its name from the ancient Greeks from Sparta who emphasized physical training and discipline.
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This ancient legal right is deemed by scholars to be the single most important right inherited from the ancient Anglo-Saxon legal system and incorporated into the Constitution.
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Violence as entertainment has existed for thousands of years, from the ancient Egyptians watching re-enactments of the murder of their god Osiris to the Romans' gladiator games, said Bushman.
It captures beautifully the emotional crossover from the ancient sacred story of the birth of Christ to the everyday world in which we live, where it is sung in remembrance and celebration.
Now, 3, 000-year-old ivory artifacts recovered by Mallowan between 1949 and 1963 from the ancient city of Nimrud, in what is now Iraq, and likely cleaned by his famous wife using cotton wool buds and face cream, go on display Monday at the British Museum in London.
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Handwritten on bleached calfskin, the manuscript dates to the once-thriving Jewish community in Spain and describes events ranging from the Creation to the Jewish exodus from ancient Egypt to the death of Moses.
Twenty-nine, or 38%, of the 76 mummies from ancient Egypt, 13 of the 51 (25%) mummies from ancient Peru, and 2 of 5 (40%) of ancient Puebloans had atherosclerosis.
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Travellers from all over the world guard what is left of the ancient cities from the invasion of modern five-star accommodation.
Pembrokeshire National Park woodland officer Celia Thomas said the authority had been contacted by some members of the public concerned that felling trees would detract from the character of the ancient oak woodland.
"We've found archaeology from pretty much all periods - from the very ancient prehistoric right up to a 20th-Century industrial site, but this site is probably the most important medieval site we've got, " said Jay Carver, project archaeologist for Crossrail.
Hailing from Siberia's Denisova Cave, the girl was from an ancient human sub-species similar to the Neanderthals.
Many faiths know a moment when a territorial practice gets pointed toward a symbolic and indoor activity: thus, most famously, the move from the Temple Judaism of ancient Israel to the Talmudic, rabbinical Judaism that arose after the destruction of the Temple.
In voting to kill a tradition that was at the center of the ancient Greek Olympics from the eighth century B.
"Land plants have existed for about 400 million years and if you know where to look, you can find remains of fossil plant material from each of the ancient periods, " said Jahren.
Men were walking by him, past him, alongside him, men with fur coats and bags of flour, with sacks of sugar and ceiling fixtures, with faucets, tables, chair legs, upholstery ripped from the walls of ancient Turkish houses that had fallen in the raid.
The architect continued to advanced, from ancient times through the renaissance were repeatedly asked for the meaning of their design.
Ever since the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, formidable warriors from Germany, pushed the ancient indigenous Celtic tribes to the island's margins and classified them as aliens, they have had an understandably cool relationship with England and, subsequently, the United Kingdom.
Cattle browsed in the grass, and the distinctive call of a sandhill crane carried on the wind that flowed down from ancient sand dunes in the distance.
In the eighteenth century, a French scholar discovered a manuscript of the Iliad from the tenth century A.D. that came complete with transcriptions from the marginal notes of ancient commentators.
Following my small walking group, I strode across the hilltop, away from this ancient site of pilgrimage and across the stone-pitted flank of the hill.
To achieve these feats, Nektar's scientists performed hundreds of hours of computer simulations, tested more than a dozen different formulations of dried insulin and traveled around the world drawing inspiration from ancient Chinese seeds, plants in the Mexican desert and production techniques used in making instant coffee, powdered milk, aviation aerodynamics, truck fuel injectors and industrial vacuum pumps.
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