Not since ancient Rome had a civilization have such an impact on the way the world works.
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Sugarcane, native to South and Southeast Asia, has been used since ancient times to sweeten food and drinks.
If successful, it could be the first vaccine for a scourge that has plagued mankind since ancient times.
It had been used in the West since ancient times, reaching an aesthetic and technical peak in 12th-century Byzantium.
These lightshows of dying stars have been seen since ancient times, but modern astronomers use details of their light to probe the Universe's secrets.
Meanwhile, Jews had been trading in the Mediterranean since ancient times.
"The Diaoyu Islands are China's territory since ancient times, " he said.
Since ancient Egypt, if not long before, hats have served the practical (protection against heat and cold) and the symbolic (religious function, military rank, social status).
The term planet has been around since Ancient Greece, but coming to consensus on a precise definition today proved challenging, even for the world's top scientific minds.
Attorneys have been around since ancient times in various countries.
Of course tomb robbery has been going on since ancient times, but Kent Weeks, Professor of Egyptology at the American University of Cairo says the past two years have seen a dramatic increase in such crimes.
Performed with individual variations throughout the region, Oku-noto no Aenokoto reflects the everyday culture of the Japanese, who have cultivated rice since ancient times, and serves as a marker of identity for the area s farmers.
Despite this economic outlook, the stock markets in the last three months have agreed with the unstated assumptions in the whispers of "green shoots" - that growth is a prerogative of the modern era, that rebounds are always V-shaped and that central banks and politicians have abolished the business cycle that has plagued economic life since ancient times.
But you know, ever since the ancient Greeks - Thucydides wrote about the desire for honor.
Qanats (also called kariz, lyoun, aflaj) are underground galleries that tap and continously convey groundwater and have been employed since very ancient times.
Back in 2002, Agrawal and two of his graduate students attained hero status by solving a math problem that folks had been working on since the ancient Greeks: How to tell for sure if a number is prime relatively quickly, without having to check all possible factors of the number.
Scafetta believes that a natural 60-year climate cycle associated with astronomical cycles may also explain calendars adopted in traditional Chinese, Tamil and Tibetan civilizations, since all major ancient civilizations knew about 20-year and 60-year Jupiter and Saturn cycles.
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Foie gras has been produced by farmers since the days of ancient Egypt, when farmers discovered that the waterfowl's liver expanded in the days leading up to the bird's planned migration.
Brewed from a concoction of natural herbs, true absinthe includes three crucial elements: anise, fennel and Artemisia absinthium (grand wormwood, used as a remedy since the time of the ancient Egyptians).
The MIT mathematicians, that is, sidestepped a weak spot that had plagued cryptographers ever since the days of the ancient Greeks: How do sender and receiver hand off a key without risking that their communication channel or their courier will be compromised in some way?
It shows traditional orchards, flower-rich grassland and ancient woodland have been in decline since 1973.
Central Asia has been a geostrategic crossroads of people, capital and ideas since the first Han dynasty caravans traveled the ancient Silk Road.
If you have time, it is only a short 2km drive from here to the little-visited ruins of Khirbet Mukhayyat, believed to be the original ancient town of Nebo, settled since the early Bronze Age.
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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The ancient civilization of Mayans lived in Mesoamerica since 2, 600 BC and had an extremely complicated and accurate method of keeping track of time based on three separate calendars.
Since young bones are fragile, such a complete specimen of an ancient infant is a startling find.
Since time immemorial, the development of peoples and intercultural exchanges along ancient trade routes have played a crucial role in the evolution and transformation of human civilization.
An ancient woodland is described as land which has been continuously wooded since 1600 AD in Wales and England or 1750 AD in Scotland.
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