Over lunch at McDonald's and an afternoon tour of Delhi's ancient Red Fort, they started getting to know each other.
Stretching along British Columbia's island-dotted coastline, its marvels include ancient red cedar cathedrals (some of the trees are more than a thousand years old) and other towering trees, glacier-fed fjords and wooded islands.
Bailey reckons the answer to these riddles lies beneath the waters of the Red Sea, where ancient coastlines, teeming with undisturbed archaeology, remain to be explored.
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"First, modern maize pollen grains are larger and turn red when stain is applied, whereas ancient grains do not, " they said.
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The Ancient Greeks and Romans carried red flags in battles, and as late as the 1800s soldiers wore red in the field as a way to intimidate their enemies.
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Some claimed it contained fossil like features and evidence of ancient microscopic life on the Red Planet, others dismissed the claims, saying it had been contaminated since it had been on earth.
For example, the ancient "painting kit" contained red ochre and was likely used as body paint, just as the Himba people of Namibia use it today.
Dating back to the 6th Century BC, the red-figure krater (a large vessel the ancient Greeks used to mix water and wine) shows in exquisite detail the death of Lycian king Sarpedon in the Trojan War.
But if Curiosity could make the definitive identification of organics in Gale Crater, it would be a eureka moment and go a long way towards demonstrating that the Red Planet did indeed have habitable environments in its ancient past.
For example, iron-gall ink, commonly used on ancient documents, is transparent to infra-red light and most visible in the ultraviolet region of the spectrum.
To that end, both the 3, 000-square-foot, three-bedroom house and the 16, 000-square-foot winery are clad in ancient-looking limestone siding and topped with red-clay roof tiles imported from France.
The site of the ancient city, which is carved into rose-red stone, dates back 2, 000 years and is Jordan's top tourist attraction, drawing more than half a million visitors each year.
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