Qanats (also called kariz, lyoun, aflaj) are underground galleries that tap and continously convey groundwater and have been employed since very ancient times.
"We've found archaeology from pretty much all periods - from the very ancient prehistoric right up to a 20th-Century industrial site, but this site is probably the most important medieval site we've got, " said Jay Carver, project archaeologist for Crossrail.
Nayder says it ties in very well with the ancient Roman tradition of honoring vegetation on May Day.
Apart from ancient material there is very little from Latin America.
The earliest trumpets, used as signaling or ceremonial instruments in many ancient cultures, were very natural: they were made of such things as ram's horns, ox horns, seashells, and elephant tusks.
He sat down to applause and I rose and gave a brief speech, through Mr Kim, saying how very honoured I was to be welcomed at this ancient and important site, and how tremendously moved I had been to see the Cambodian soldiers talking so harmoniously with the Thai soldiers.
The universe, though, is an ancient place, so many civilisations could be very old indeed.
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Titan and Shiva were prominent deities in the ancient temples of Greece and India for this very reason.
When you go to -- inland, further into Java, there are just incredible places like Yogya, old ancient temples, and places that I have very fond memories of visiting when I was a kid.
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Indeed very little has changed in the last century: swidden (slash and burn) farming and ancient customs are still observed, and the shaman still holds sway in most villages, despite the presence of mobile phones and satellite TV.
And even though it's been a very long time since the first knives were crafted out of stone, we haven't given up on that ancient manufacturing technique.
John Sheriff, an investigator with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland, said it was impossible to date the stone precisely but it is very likely to be neolithic or Bronze Age, and could "easily" be 4, 000 years old.
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