And for PVP fans, a new warzone called Ancient Hypergate is on the way.
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Those ancient New Yorkers and the Dutch and English who followed plundered the area's oyster supply without a second thought.
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This is just one of the many uses to which this iconic building has been put, vicissitudes which are traced with verve and erudition by Mary Beard in this highly readable book, the first in a new series on ancient buildings, which Ms Beard is also editing.
And much to my delight, I discovered that I was able to see the city's past as well as its present: the London of my imagination superimposed upon the reality, a transparent city in which the old was encased in the new like an ancient layer cake wrapped in glistening sandwich-wrap.
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For he is a peculiarly potent new symbol of an ancient cultural battle.
The latest crop of shibori enthusiasts, such as Brooklyn-based designer Rebecca Atwood, who recently launched the Blauvelt Collection of hand-dyed pillows, is breathing new life into the ancient craft.
It was a fitting finale to the journey: Turkey's eastern border, perhaps to be Europe's new eastern frontier, ancient churches and mosques rising like tombstones out of the long wild grass.
The diversity of an East Asian cruise means that almost every day is a new stop, often in a new country, with a chance to learn about a new unique culture and ancient traditions.
Apply all that new technology to an ancient lexicon of good manners that precluded not only the preparation but the cutting of food at Chinese tables, rich or poor, and you have no need for any tableware beyond your chopsticks, a couple of serving pieces, and a slippery porcelain spoon for soup.
The new specimens were found in ancient river deposits in Alberta, Canada.
They used new techniques that can identify ancient genetic information from an archaeological find, even when large amounts of DNA from soil bacteria are also present.
Peabody Energy is one of the world's largest miners of coal, an ancient commodity given new luster by the shortage of petroleum and by advances in smokestack scrubbers.
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.
By the end of that millennium, however, Butrint was in the hands of the Romans who smartened up the theatre and installed (predictably) a new bath house by the ancient city wall.
"Ashton's 'Twitter race' is an amazing example of how we can leverage new technology to battle an ancient disease, " said Scott Case, CEO of Malaria No More, the charity expected to benefit most from the mosquito bed net donations.
Once traffic is restored--it could take six months or more to get back up to prestorm levels--the long-term fix for New Orleans lies in the ancient coastal wetlands that suck up the rain and storm surges that periodically imperil the city.
The next pope will also face a changing church, which, while ever ancient, is ever new.
It's a malevolence so ancient there are no new words for it, and so the old ones will have to do.
The music was something new in American rock: both ancient and modern, rooted in the past and eschewing the psychedelic sounds then in vogue.
Re-written by machine and new technology, paperbacks could become ancient history.
Metrosexuals aren't exactly new--think of all those ancient Greek discus throwers wearing togas.
He created a new architectural language for the government buildings in Dhaka, Bangladesh, grafting a new democracy to the roots of an ancient civilization through archetypal brick forms.
The ancient Greeks, when brand-new democracy got too much for them, knew the calming oblivion of eating the lotus or sipping nepenthe.
Because the new study has found warmer tropical waters in ancient times, it would support the idea that the earlier shell data were indeed wrong.
Then, in the summer of 1669, came Louis's order to dismantle the ancient lodge and build a grand new palace, based upon the unfinished stone envelope.
The personal computer is one of the great inventions of the 20th century, and though we like to think of it as a new technology, it is, in fact, ancient by high tech measures.
I'm just as fascinated in new, cutting edge food innovations as I am in ancient culinary techniques.
The results are now on exhibition at New York's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.
The skyline of the city, famous for its citadel and ancient monuments, is changing rapidly, with new hotels being built to accommodate visitors form Iraq and beyond.
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