This layer of excrement acted as a solid seal, preserving it over the millennia.
Over the millennia we have constructed a carefully balanced jurisprudence of after-the-fact reaction to harms, especially crimes.
Our brains evolved through the millennia into incredible prediction machines, designed to help us make sense of our environment.
It was the first battle between two ironclad ships and marked the end of the millennia-long era of wooden warships.
Seeing these scenes, the millennia separating us from these individuals melt away.
And many linguists believe it is hard to say anything definitive about languages prior to 8, 000 years ago, as their relationships would have become jumbled over the millennia.
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The millennia-old marketplace dance is still beautifully simple.
That distribution suggests that some of the first men to bear the haplogroup in their Y-chromosomes were residents of Doggerland, a real-life Atlantis that was swallowed up by rising seas in the millennia following the Ice Age.
Made from an offshoot of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden, the wood takes various forms across the millennia, becoming an object of reverence, desire and fear for various crowned heads until the early seventh century, when a Christian emperor humbly carries it to its sanctuary in Jerusalem.
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The Micron Millennia Max 733, based on that processor, is the fastest Windows 98 PC we've seen.
Strategically positioned on historic trade routes linking East and West, this ancient city has conserved an astounding monumental heritage reflecting the diverse cultures of the peoples that have settled here over millennia including the Hittites, Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, Umayyads, Ayyubids, Mongols, Mamelukes and Ottomans.
But most exciting were the dozens of square clay tablets inscribed with letters which, if Neolithic, predated by many millennia the Phoenician characters from which Western alphabets were supposed to have come making Glozel, not the Middle East, the cradle of Western civilisation.
There are even parts of the site where millennia-old bricks have been replaced with brand new ones.
This should be enough to cope with expected growth in the numbers of mobile devices, Internet-capable household appliances, and so on for the next few millennia.
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The Catholic Church has always absorbed such influences to some degree, which is how it has transplanted itself into so many cultural contexts over the past two millennia.
It would be an act of judicial imperialism to declare that the meaning of marriage that has prevailed across the Western world for millennia is suddenly unconstitutional because it is "irrational" and force the new concept on everyone.
The last hundred or so Yemeni Jews are set to leave after more than two millennia in the country.
The African matrilines, however, seem to have remained isolated from each other for tens of millennia after the exodus.
Obviously the Arctic Ocean was nearly or completely ice-free at the end of summer for centuries or even millennia, and still the polar bear survived and the Inuit culture radiated.
One of this exhibition's ambitious goals is to demonstrate the commonalities shared by artists across millennia, as they work at depicting the world around them.
They carbon-date back to millennia after the end of the ice age, about 9-10 thousand years ago.
But, fittingly for a discipline that deals in centuries and millennia, the revolution will be a slow one.
Of course, even before hating Stroheim was popular, audiences had been looking forward to booing the bad guys for millennia.
There are few places in the world where a millennia-long history (before countries, colonization or Kentucky Fried Chicken) is so evident.
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For millennia, the candle has cast light on man's progress as it also helped drive it, allowing us to extend our productive hours beyond sundown.
For many centuries, even millennia, the world got by without translation: the people of different nations simply learned enough of the next door language to communicate adequately.
Over the course of many millennia, great numbers of large birds, reptiles, insects, and plants drifted or flew in to create its fragile and unique flora and fauna.
For untold millennia, the sun's nightly retreat has stood for the end of life, but our thoughts needn't turn somber as the day's last rays give way to night.
For millennia, the Atlantic Ocean had been a barrier cutting Europe off from the rest of the world, but Europe's new ships effectively shrank the ocean, turning it into a commercial highway.
The English have wisely surrounded themselves with a bevy of statues, plaques, tombs and monuments to remind everyone that daily life in these parts has generally been tough for the last couple of millennia.
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