Most ancient Greeks believed that there was a poet called Homer who wrote down his poems.
The basilica is the city's most ancient, with foundations dating back to the early 4th century.
The world's most ancient example of winemaking was found in Shulaveri, a region in southern Georgia.
Amazingly enough, the earthquake seemed to bury, at least temporarily, some of the region's most ancient enmities.
The first important thing about the Parthenon is that, unlike most ancient Greek monuments, it survived more or less intact into modern times.
It's one of the most ancient tools in our arsenal--our ancestors chipped the first ones out of rock more than two million years ago.
Welsh people could lay claim to be the most ancient Britons, according to scientists who have drawn up a genetic map of the British Isles.
Yes, things are so desperate in Japan that a foreign corporation is allowed to insert itself into that most ancient and most sheltered of industries, agriculture.
Another way you can schmooze is to get a shoeshine, that most ancient and urban of male rituals, with its attendant smells of leather and shoe polish.
Patent laws and, more broadly, laws that encourage innovation are based on some of our most ancient legal regimes and have been around since the dawn of civilization.
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Yes, things have gotten so desperate in Japan lately that a foreign corporation is allowed to insert itself into that most ancient and most sheltered of industries, agriculture.
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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The tooth is from a jawbone that was found in a cave near the village of Lonche, Slovenia and is considered one of the most ancient evidence of pre-historic dentistry and the earliest known direct example of therapeutic-palliative dental filling so far.
This city of the Indus civilization was excavated in the 1920s and 1930s, spreading over an area of almost 600 acre and 10% of which has been excavated and was one of the most ancient planned cities in the world built entirely of fired brick in accordance to a carefully designed urban planning scheme.
"Now here's a site, the Sphinx and the Pyramids, probably the most famous ancient site in the worldno map, " Ludwig says.
The most complete ancient manuscript of the Commandments will be exhibited in New York for the first time starting December 16.
"Now here's a site, the sphinx and the pyramids, probably the most famous ancient site in the world no map, " Ludwig says.
Dilmun, one of most important ancient civilisations of the region and said to date to the third millennium BC, was a hub on a major trading route between Mesopotamia - the world's oldest civilisation - and the Indus Valley in South Asia.
There are an estimated 400, 000 to 600, 000 Christians in Iraq, with most belonging to ancient eastern churches.
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.
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The Anglican Church is faced with a particular challenge because 13, 000 of its buildings are ancient, most of them listed.
But although older members of the Cocolo community still speak Caribbean English at home, most have lost their ancient mother tongue and are monolingual in Spanish.
But for the most part, the ancient tool has been replaced with electronic calculators and computers--even though an experienced abacus user can often compute sums more quickly than your average Joe with a calculator.
Easy as it can be to forget as we scrutinize the contracts and obligations and weigh them against the team's future needs, the Yankees are in the business not of getting the most wins for their dollar, but the most wins, and ancient players aren't going to hurt the cause.
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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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Few of the most creative societies of the ancient world, after all, were free.
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Its double-tiered library, marble-paved roads, theatre, baths and even public latrine offer the most-preserved look at ancient city life in Turkey.
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