People in the ancient West and in Asia knew the value of using tokens for calculation.
And in the ancient technology of the qvevri, they feel they have a secret weapon.
The water temperature underground, in the ancient Cheshire Basin reservoir, is about 100C (212F).
Icarus was the boy in the ancient Greek myth whose father crafted him wings of wax.
Hanks said shooting the movie in the ancient city was complicated given the vibrancy of Rome.
Some of this water apparently made its made to the surface in the ancient past.
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This was done by analysing the subtle distortions in the ancient light introduced as it passed by the matter.
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Titan and Shiva were prominent deities in the ancient temples of Greece and India for this very reason.
In the ancient world, the 'gods' were rarely regarded as supernatural beings with discrete personalities, living a totally separate metaphysical existence.
With Rome's extensive history, religious celebrations and rich culture, spending the holiday in the ancient imperial city is an almost unrivalled experience.
Some believe the world will end on 21 December, the end of a 5, 125-year-long cycle in the ancient Mayan calendar.
With no direct counterpart today, it has been difficult to nail down the ammonites' true place in the ancient food chain.
In the second century BCE the ancient Jews were overrun by the Assyrians, a Greek proxy in the ancient Middle East.
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Just about any contemporary sport has corollaries in competitions in the ancient world, or a pedigree in folk games or aristocratic recreations.
Pat bred donkeys and had studied and written about their symbolic significance, their place in the ancient world, and their profoundly spiritual natures.
And, in the ancient corner, Alec Guinness, in a performance no less Buddha-like, in its opaque yet disarming sagacity, than it seemed thirty-two years ago.
And Cleopatra controlled the greatest grain supply in the ancient world.
The nature of narcissism was explored in the ancient world too.
But nowhere is their fascinatingly simple and traditional lifestyle better showcased than in the ancient hamlets of Chengyang, where eight villages skirt the winding Linxi River amid verdant farmland.
Many predicted the end of the world would come Friday, the day on which a long phase in the ancient Mayan calendar came to an end.
The phrases have a particular rhythm, based upon traditional poetry and the distinctive intonation of the Ryukyu scale, and are performed in the ancient language of Okinawa.
For centuries, silver-bearded turbaned craftsmen from Fez and Meknes had been coming to work in the ancient mosques and palaces of Marrakech, instructing sloe-eyed youths in their arts.
Leaders in the ancient world thought and made decisions differently.
In the ancient Greek play Lysistrata women stage a sex strike to force the men to bring their sons and husbands home and end the nearly 30-year Peloponnesian War.
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 recommended using geometric lines of latitude and longitude to convey a three-dimensional Earth on a two-dimensional surface, and it included the co-ordinates of over 8, 000 locations in the ancient world.
Cicero was a political outsider from a small town near Rome, but he was a brilliant man and gifted speaker, with a burning desire to gain the highest office in the ancient republic.
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In the ancient oceans, green rust's ability to pull nickel out of the water would have been critical for some life forms, since nickel is an important nutrient for microbes that produce methane.
Nor was his music just a borrowing from Jamaica: it was rooted in Africa, especially in the ancient drums that were used to communicate hope, fear or joy between one village and another.
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