"Xinjiang has been China's territory since ancient times," said another.
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It's actually an "elixir of immortality" concocted during ancient times.
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Its lush riverine lands have attracted incomers since ancient times.
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In ancient times, Chongqing was part of the Ba kingdom.
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APPLEBOME: Well, it was easier and harder in ancient times.
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In ancient times, this would have helped us stay alive.
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Carrier pigeons were used in ancient times for relaying messages.
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Globally, iconoclasm has been practiced at least since ancient times.
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Desert agriculture has existed in the region since ancient times.
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Silver has been a favored defense against infection since ancient times.
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Sulfur has been used as a bonding agent since ancient times.
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It's unclear just how big the dragons of ancient times got.
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But in ancient times, you wouldn't want meet one in person.
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According to legend, Brigid had some cool miracles in ancient times.
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In ancient times, Pharaohs hunted the big cats along the Nile.
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Because these leagues are sort of in the ancient times, essentially.
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Animals have been used in warfare or conflict since ancient times.
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Those were the ancient times I came from, way pre-Tinder.
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"From ancient times we have been a wrestling country," coach Sukhbataar said.
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" She added: "It is the same in Western countries in ancient times.
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Since ancient times, women have tinkered with pads, tampons and pain cures.
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Such smoke was used for religious rites and fumigation in ancient times.
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After all, people have been sipping wine since ancient times, I reasoned.
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As in ancient times, the parades are used to stoke patriotic fervor.
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Advances in prosthetic limbs Prosthetic limbs have been around since ancient times.
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Since ancient times we've known that electrical current can be healing and regenerative.
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Did mammoths' feet in ancient times walk upon England's green and pleasant land?
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"The Indonesians sailed all the way to Madagascar in ancient times," she said.
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Their part of the tomb was disturbed by grave robbers in ancient times.
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Since ancient times, nations have recognized each other's authority to designate their own capitals.
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I just like to see how people in ancient times built and made things.
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The fact is that fighting in ancient times was bloody and injury was standard.
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Like other parts of the Holy Land, Gaza's history stretches back to ancient times.
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"As a result masters are 15% less powerful than in ancient times," he said.
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Ideas about relativity or gravity in ancient times weren't the same as Einstein's theory.
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But, as in ancient times, the chances of having their complaints addressed is very low.
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Our fascination with trilobites goes back millennia with possible descriptions dating back to ancient times.
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I've played video games set in ancient times, and all I see are white sculptures.
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And studying the heavens was, after all, an area where China excelled in ancient times.
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The site of Notre-Dame even may have been a holy place in ancient times.
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Zenobia was a warrior queen who united Syria and conquered surrounding civilizations in ancient times.
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In ancient times, the vernal equinox — or the first day of spring — was in Aries.
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In ancient times, the Korean royal household kept cows to supply milk for the court.
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It's widely known that since ancient times, fur was used for a practical purpose: warmth.
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How else, in ancient times, could you explain why bad things happened to good people?
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Cuts and bruises toughen her up, and even since ancient times, heroes were born of hardship.
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People have sensed auras, or energy fields, around other people since biblical and even ancient times.
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The Broken Jess had been a temple in ancient times, of what kind no one knew.
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He looks a lot like Love himself, as he does on several vases from ancient times.
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Though common in ancient times, "building into rock is hardly ever done anymore," Mr. Kundig said.
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In ancient times, said Mr. Blinkin, the transportation expert, there were two philosophies behind road building.
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Isn't it arrogant to assume we are better thinkers today than people were in ancient times?
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As it turns out, we probably bear very little resemblance to human populations of ancient times.
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Lake Turkana is very remote today, as it likely was in ancient times, Dr. Grillo said.
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In ancient times they housed as many as 21945,26 musicians that played at the Emperor's ceremonies.
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In ancient times the self was more a prism than a flashlight: Brilliance shone through you.
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In ancient times women inserted a paste made with crocodile dung into their vaginas to prevent pregnancy.
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Related to other Berber tongues, it is written in its own script, dating back to ancient times.
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In Ancient times, Roman philosopher Pliny the Elder believed they were a symbol of chastity and youth.
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Modern shortcuts to gold Like in ancient times, not all doping in the modern Games involved dope.
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City streets were meant for foot traffic and horses from ancient times until the early twentieth century.
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Carnival dates back to ancient times when the Germanic tribes celebrated it to chase away winter demons.
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In ancient times — say, 2008, when Republicans staged a similar occupation — the story might have fizzled there.
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Megaliths are any old arrangement of stones that were assembled in ancient times, presumably for mystic rituals.
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Humans have been narrating through song from ancient times, and the cantastorie have a long history themselves.
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Some forests were relatively undisturbed until recent decades, while others were split into fragments in ancient times.
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The Black Sea has had strategic importance since ancient times, and remains a gateway to the Mediterranean.
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Edible aphrodisiacs have been used since ancient times, believed to help amp up libido, lust and even fertility.
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In ancient times, Germanic tribes passed down fighting styles by having their most experienced warrior teach the youth.
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Following eight months of research, Kim's investigation connects the events of ancient times to the reality unfolding today.
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Kylie signed the original copy of the setlist in ancient times when the album was still called Swish.
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Since ancient times, the roads of the capital were meant to be an orderly geometric reflection of control.
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Here's what you need to know about Egypt's native Christians, who trace their origins back to ancient times.
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Raisins were created during ancient times, when we didn't have as many cooking options as we do today.
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In ancient times, which is to say the 1990 season, 22001 players hit 21998 or more home runs.
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"When it comes to elections, America is still living in ancient times," Christal Hayes of USA Today writes.
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Since ancient times, in every place they have ever lived, Jews have represented the frightening prospect of freedom.
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Tourist attraction It was no different in ancient times, when people traveled to Hierapolis to see the phenomenon.
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A guide, Mohammed al-Anzi, said the region had been dominated in ancient times by four different civilizations.
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The elephant is a symbol of Thailand and in ancient times they were used to carry soldiers into battle.
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So you think there were people before us in ancient times that were more advanced technologically than we are?
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In ancient times, there was also a disciplinary system in place, but in some ways, it wasn't very robust.
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This double standard rests on assumptions of female biological inferiority and reinforces a prejudice stretching back to ancient times.
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In ancient times the Incas would celebrate the solstice at the Temple of the Sun in Machu Picchu, Peru.
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In the ancient times, there was a special box near the czar's palace that people could put complaints into.
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A pediment is fit with a triangular ivory relief that must have adorned a miniature temple during ancient times.
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Government-imposed quarantines were fairly common in ancient times, before medicine stemmed the ferocity with which contagious diseases spread.
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In 1695, the astronomer Edmund Halley discovered that modern calculations did not quite predict eclipses reported in ancient times.
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Nose piercing, which has a variety of symbolic meanings, dates back to ancient times, originating in the Middle East.
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The legend goes that in ancient times a beautiful princess fell in love with a stable boy and became pregnant.
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However, in these ancient times, you couldn't just go to a streaming site and listen whenever you felt like it.
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It is supposed to resemble a beacon of the sort used in ancient times to guide ships safely to harbour.
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New research suggests that mead, the vitality drink of gods and berserkers alike, was a potent medicine in ancient times.
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For example, the hieroglyphic for 'red' in ancient times was a flamingo in flight, because that's where they saw red.
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Doner's influences are multitudinous, drawing on how language has been described in literature and religion, from ancient times to today.
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The history of the piercing goes back to ancient times — but it's safe to say it's having quite the moment.
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Rare in modern history, quarantines were fairly common in ancient times, before medicine stemmed the ferocious spread of contagious diseases.
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Hindu nationalists and India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, argue for the superiority of India by citing examples from ancient times.
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He settled on an Amazon heroine who hails from an island where women had lived without men since ancient times.
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In ancient times, the bathhouses that the Romans adapted from the Greek tradition were even more integral to cosmopolitan life.
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Chinese legend and folklore have lauded the ability of the Camellia sinensis leaf to provide refreshment without stupefaction since ancient times.
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An accompanying brochure provides extensively researched accounts of the histories embedded in each aerial view from ancient times to the present.
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In ancient times, the poor looked after the assets of the rich; in modern times, it is the other way round.
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In ancient times, dozens of years before the dawn of modern highways, lived a strange type of people, the road engineers.
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It argues it can do what it wants on the islands it claims as they have been Chinese since ancient times.
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Time is fleeting, but relics and monuments of ancient times remind us that leaving something enduring is what defines a civilization.
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The olive groves that have encircled Cellino San Marco since ancient times are now turning into what locals call tree cemeteries.
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The story goes that eating such foods commemorates the unlikely military victory of the Maccabees over the Greeks in ancient times.
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As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one.
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He also learned that hillside vineyards had been regarded as the best venue for winemaking since ancient times in Mediterranean countries.
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The reason behind hysteria changed over the millennia—from wandering womb in ancient times to demonic possession in the Middle Ages.
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But listening to the sounds of the body as a diagnostic tool—a process called auscultation—dates back to ancient times.
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Since ancient times, medics have relied on their sense of smell to help them work out what is wrong with their patients.
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Once again, then, as naturally as in ancient times, knowledge of the true nature of things is being sought in the depths.
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A recent report by Xinhua, the official news agency, called Scarborough Shoal an "inalienable part of the Chinese territory" since ancient times.
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Antiques In ancient times, scribes churned out documents — love poems, prayers, lawsuits — for clients who were illiterate or too busy to write.
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"Since ancient times there's been no particular feeling that homosexuality is wrong, unlike in Christianity or what the Bible says," she said.
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In ancient times, the festival welcomed the season of human fertility and included rituals to assure a good harvest in the autumn.
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The fact that psilocybin is naturally occurring, and has been used as a medicine since ancient times, may add to this appeal.
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Sold since ancient times as "virgin boy eggs," the local delicacy was officially listed as "intangible cultural heritage" in Dongyang in 2008.
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This tradition has existed since ancient times in the Kuria tribe, explains village leader Mwita Wambura Nsabi, but it was rarely used.
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That led him to think about ancient times, and the "modernity of antiquity," words he chose as the title of the collection.
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Taking one's last breath in one's own bed, a sight ubiquitous in literature, was the modus operandi for death in ancient times.
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Front Burner Fermentation has been used to prolong food shelf life since ancient times, giving us sourdough, cheese, pickles and alcoholic beverages.
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There were simulations of a hundred sorts: clowns, demons, heroes; folk from far stars and ancient times; creatures of fantasy, nightmare, faery.
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Edible funerary rituals from the Victorian era on back to ancient times have gone the way of all funerals—straight to the grave.
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Although ephemerides have been used since ancient times, the tables generated today rely on computers and mathematical models to determine the planets' placements.
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Asked about the visit to Itu Aba, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the Spratlys had been Chinese territory since ancient times.
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"The Scarborough Shoal has been China's territory since ancient times," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said at a regular briefing in Beijing.
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The deity Krishna, who is colored blue in paintings, and his female followers are believed to have done the same in ancient times.
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The term originated in ancient times, linked not to humankind's best friend, but marking when Sirius, the Dog Star, began rising at dawn.
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The term originated in ancient times, linked not to humankind's best friend, but marking when Sirius, the Dog Star, starts rising at dawn.
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The ancestors of modern Japanese, Indians and Native Americans didn't become fixed in their modern locations in ancient times and simply stop moving.
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Set in Ceylon (Sri Lanka, today) in ancient times, the story tells of the fishermen Nadir and Zurga, who have been friends since childhood.
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When a giant portrait of a fierce-looking owl, the emblem of Athens since ancient times, was itself graffitied, it was quickly cleaned up.
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Without preconditions, Mr Trump recognised Jerusalem as the historic capital of the Jewish people, "established in ancient times", and the seat of Israel's government.
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The largest viking market in western Norway is a weekend full of battle reenactments, entertainers dressed in period garb and food from ancient times.
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Somebody has to make that decision, and it was I. These decisions go back to the legacy or ancient times of the Planetary Society.
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Playing by the rules The Chinese government staunchly maintains that large areas of the South China Sea have been its territory since ancient times.
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What makes these stories, preserved from ancient times, especially readable today is the preternaturally postmodern form they are given in Hearn's deeply idiosyncratic telling.
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For instance, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece recently noted in an interview that in ancient times there was no nation known as Macedonia.
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The cathedral is the jewel of the Île de la Cité, the island in the middle of the Seine called Lutetia in ancient times.
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A universal status symbol since ancient times, the metal's beauty, tactility and malleability have long made it the most desirable material in human adornment.
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But there is a countervailing force that can draw us together: the quest to answer fundamental questions that have captivated humans since ancient times.
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Modern Hollywood took the chance to tell Paul's story, because it is every bit as relevant today as it was in those ancient times.
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My motives were more than just natural-historical curiosity: Their presence made the woods feel to me like the near-mythical ''wildwood'' of ancient times.
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The mount has been used as a Jewish cemetery for more than 3,000 years and has been a site of Christian worship since ancient times.
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IN ANCIENT times, traders on the Silk Road connecting China with Europe rarely ventured into the northern Caucasus region that is now home to Georgia.
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These plant-based ingredients not only make powerful antioxidants but also have proven natural healing and anti-inflammatory properties that date back to ancient times.
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In ancient times the birds were counted so that the royal family knew exactly how many swans they had to feast on during state banquets.
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He is associated with the coming of spring and the yearly flooding of the Nile, which, in ancient times, made the land around it fertile.
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We Kurds are the indigenous inhabitants of our territories -- and have been since ancient times -- coexisting with Christians, Yazidis, Turkmen and other minorities among us.
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The style can be dated all the way back to ancient times, according to Apartment Therapy, but it was most recently popular in the 1970s.
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The phenomenon of so-called contact killing was known in ancient times, when it was observed, for example, that copper vessels could purify drinking water.
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Frieze Masters, its four-year-old sibling fair of blue-chip art from ancient times to the late 20th century, presents an additional 130 galleries.
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Nor did I know that AUGURY referred to bird flight, although this practice dates back to ancient times and appears in works like the Iliad.
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Though ancient grains do not actually transport you back to ancient times, they are haunted, providing you a nifty portal for communicating with the netherworld.
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In ancient times, people believed that sneezing would allow evil spirits to enter your body, and saying "God bless you" kept out those evil spirits.
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Preeclampsia has been recognized since ancient times, but researchers still haven't figured out exactly what causes it and why it strikes otherwise-healthy women like Pellegrino.
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No matter who made it first, pasta has been consumed in the Mediterranean region since ancient times and remains a traditional component of that diet today.
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At the end of the festival, they are cast into the water of the rice fields in a fertility ritual that harks back to ancient times.
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The heart of Paris is still the Île de la Cité, the island in the middle of the river where Paris was created in ancient times.
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said China was "seriously concerned and resolutely opposed", adding that the islands had been China's inherent territory since ancient times.
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What a woman was considered to want most from a man — in ancient times before Tinder and rampant sexting — was to gaze soulfully into his eyes.
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In ancient times, purple dye was made from the mucus of sea snails in the Phoenician city of Tyre, in what is now Lebanon's Mediterranean coast.
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Then create a presentation that shows how researchers have helped to overturn conventional wisdom or lead us toward a better understanding of life in ancient times.
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GEORGIA has been known for excess and eccentricity since ancient times, when it was called Colchis, the home of Medea and the Golden Fleece in Greek mythology.
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The fact that every human being needs to feel needed and valued and not just an entity to be pitied is something we've known since ancient times.
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In ancient times, before Greek astronomers figured out that simple geometry caused the effect, the sudden blotting out of the life-enabling sun must have been terrifying.
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But while writing to you, I lose the sense of these things, in the recollection of ancient times, when youth and health made happiness out of everything.
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This seemingly modern marvel of minimalist undergarments has a history dating back to ancient times—when thongs were likely even less comfortable than they are these days.
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"When the tradition started, initiates really believed that they were being brought into something handed down in unbroken succession from ancient times," Dr. Hutton said via email.
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The practice of astrology, which predicts one&aposs fate and fortune based on the positions of the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets, dates back to ancient times.
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We interrupt your daily newsfeed with this message brought to you by purple, which traveled all the way from ancient times to become the color of 2018.
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Virgo is named after the vestal virgins, a group of women in ancient times that never married and lived in the temple of Vesta, the goddess of hearth.
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And donkeys may no longer enjoy the elevated status they did in ancient times, but a budding movement hopes to bring respect back to the beasts of burden.
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The passage runs on — and flies — to the herm, which is a square column carved with the likeness of Hermes, used as a border marker in ancient times.
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While we'll probably never know what people smelled like in ancient times (before modern hygiene, I mean), I think it's likely that most people smelled a bit foul.
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The piles of stone which have been collecting since ancient times all impressed me with the idea that this little country is one of the prettiest on earth.
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And as this sentiment grows, the Chinese government and its local supporters repeat again and again that Hong Kong has been part of Chinese territory since ancient times.
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"They engage in mysterious activities in the dark and so they have been cloaked in superstition since ancient times," Stanford University classics scholar Adrienne Mayor told National Geographic.
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In ancient times, coveted purple dye was made from the mucus of sea snails in the Phoenician city of Tyre, according to a 2015 report in The Guardian.
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As a result, people are always on the lookout for better methods of transplant and prosthesis, which we've harnessed as medical tools since ancient times, particularly in our mouths.
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Shimshon Ben Yehoshua, from the Volcani Agricultural Research Centre and the Hebrew University's Faculty of Agriculture, says Erlich's plants are most likely the same as those from ancient times.
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I don't see a Knicks landscape quite as hopeless as in ancient times, such as last week, or last year, or the last decade, or the decade before that.
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When water has been short, the solution has been to find a new source, or to bring it from somewhere else, in ancient times using large amounts of human labour.
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China says it is perfectly within its rights to do what it wants on the islands in the South China Sea, saying they have been Chinese territory since ancient times.
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The Outsider is essentially King's version of El Cuco, whose identity originates from ancient times (like, BC ancient) and can take the form of dragons, alligators, ghosts, and pumpkin heads.
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"In ancient times, every culture had a sun god, and it was usually one of the chief gods of their whole pantheon," explains Bradley Schaefer, astronomy professor at Louisiana State University.
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Mao brooked no dissent, insisting on controlling everybody's minds; he often claimed to be a terrifying blend of Marx and the first Qin emperor, a brutal unifying warlord of ancient times.
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei, asked about the remarks, said China was determined to protect its territory, repeating its standard line that the islands had been Chinese "since ancient times".
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Speaking at a meeting with European leaders, President Xi Jinping was defiant, reasserting China's claim to sovereignty over the South China Sea "since ancient times," the state-run People's Daily reported.
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Chinese children are taught that much of the South China Sea has belonged to China since ancient times, making any move seen as reducing Beijing's claim seem a capitulation, scholars say.
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I hate to again bring up historical facts, but in the ancient times – by which I mean 85033 – Real Clear Politics posted Obama's average approval for the year at 42.5 percent.
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"For armies in ancient times, this was a geostrategic point that connected Africa, Europe and Europe by sea," Mr. Rechmaoui explained in a recent phone interview from his studio in Beirut.
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"History profoundly reveals that patriotism has flowed in the blood of the Chinese nation since ancient times," Mr. Xi said in the Great Hall of the People, next to Tiananmen Square.
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Man has carved the colorless, transparent variety of quartz since ancient times: A pair of Greek rock crystal bracelets from the fourth century B.C. are at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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The reference in "Turandot" to a woman abducted and raped in ancient times by a brutal conqueror is distressingly contemporary, as is the idea of a woman coerced by an aggressive suitor.
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Local anesthesia used Awake brain surgery dates to ancient times, when doctors sometimes drilled into patients' skulls, presumably to relieve seizures or headaches, according to the National Institutes of Health, or NIH.
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"We seem to have the idea that people in ancient times or people in the past generally weren't quite as clever as we are, but Homo sapiens is Homo sapiens," he said.
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According to gold leaf producer Manetti who cited recent studies, edible gold has dated back to ancient times, however in Europe the product was used for decorating dishes back in the Middle Ages.
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It's an eerie entranceway to the world of espionage, which features intelligence from ancient times to the Cold War and WikiLeaks, proving spies are more than just the fantasy world of James Bond.
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According to The Old Farmer's Almanac, in ancient times people used to track the seasons through a lunar calendar, so names were given to recurring full moons to mark the change in season.
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Women have been removing hair from their bodies since ancient times when the first razor was invented, but the removal of pubic hair has only become fashion-forward in the past few decades.
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Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson is a Seventh-Day Adventist who believes in the Second Coming of Christ and that the Bible offers a historically accurate view of ancient times.
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In ancient times, politics was born of the belief that we can be masters of our own fate, and democracy became a continuing, innovative project to guarantee people a say in public decisions.
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And after years of lamenting the widespread murder of Christians — more so now, he has argued, than in ancient times — he wanted to meet with and show support for persecuted and suffering Christians.
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Several restaurants in Rome, for example, have an important historical or archaeological lineage, like being the site where Julius Caesar was murdered, or a place where oil amphorae were stocked in ancient times.
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We understand that women stood so in ancient times, beside white stone and blue seas, and more recently in the villages of the elephant god and in many other places, old and new.
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On top of being neat from an astronomical standpoint, the Beehive Cluster has long been visible in the night sky as an eerie stellar cloud, and astronomers have known about it since ancient times.
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Instead, back in the ancient times of Westeros, the Children of the Forest carved faces into the trees as part of their magic-and-nature-based religion, which is built around the Old Gods.
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In those ancient times the people of the American south-west had no horses, wagons or waterways to connect them to the distant regions of south-eastern Mexico where wild scarlet macaws are found.
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"This has been our home since the ancient times," he says, referring to Mardin and its surroundings—a stunning ancient city in Southeast Turkey, which is a stone-throw's away from the Syrian border.
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Historic influences Ostensibly set in ancient times, Cha's novels nevertheless feel timeless, reflecting philosophies and practices that still permeate contemporary Chinese society and whose consequences can seem all too real even for recent readers.
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"For the 21st-century reader, [The Costume History] offers a chance to reconstruct ancient times, an exercise of memory and imagination that has its own charms," writes Francoise Tetart-Vittu in the book's introduction.
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If you've actively pursued a specific passion -- say, music, photography, or even the evolution of the shoe from ancient times to present -- and you've cultivated an active, engaged audience on social media, that's a plus.
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Set on the island of Ceylon in ancient times, "Les Pêcheurs de Perles" tells the story of two pearl divers whose lifelong friendship is threatened by their love for the same woman, a Hindu priestess.
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In the ancient times and Middle Ages, physicians judged health and diagnosed diseases by taking, yup, sips of pee, using urine flavor wheels not unlike today's coffee tasting wheels to identity pee's many flavor profiles.
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But the neighbors have over recent months been working on mending ties and visiting Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi this week that their countries' friendship dated back to ancient times.
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We take it for granted today, but in ancient times, when people were literally hand-carving buildings out of giant slabs of rock, you can bet your bricks a material like concrete would've seemed downright magical.
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Talismans, amulets, and lucky charms — often in the form of animal sculpture or jewelry — have been used by cultures throughout the world since ancient times, and are thought to be the earliest objects designed by humankind.
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Although the ruling Communist Party says Xinjiang has been part of China "since ancient times," it was only officially named and placed under central government control after being conquered by the Qing Dynasty in the 1800s.
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So the four female singers from "Odysseus' Women" interacted with the compelling mezzo-soprano Augusta Caso, who sang Nin, as if they were four sisterly figures from ancient times offering counsel, however incongruous their actual words.
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"Even when the geomagnetic field was less developed or absent in ancient times, the Earth's plasma sheets could have existed and led to effective transportation from the Earth's atmosphere to the lunar surface," Terada's team reported.
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While his critics have compared him to a low-class beggar or street performer, Mr. Li says he is no different from traditional Chinese opera singers, who in ancient times competed vigorously for money and attention.
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Goold&aposs RPM has mapped out the Ionian seabed from the Greek border all along to the Vlora Bay, finding at least 22 shipwrecks from the ancient times to World War II and hundreds of ancient amphorae.
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The issue of the nine-dash line is delicate because China has claimed it since ancient times as its territory, and the South China Sea has become part of the increasingly nationalistic vocabulary of President Xi Jinping.
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"Both Clarke and Carl Sagan entertained the idea that aliens may have visited Earth during ancient times," Benson said, noting that Clarke was especially impressed by cave paintings in Tassili n'Ajjer as potential evidence of such encounters.
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While a modern-day lunar eclipse is generally a source of excitement, in ancient times a lunar eclipse was the last thing people wanted to see, said Ed Krupp, director of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.
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The book puts forth the theory that aliens visited the earth in ancient times, and a bunch of things around the planet were either built using alien technology, or by early humans as a tribute to alien visitors.
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Quotable: "From ancient times to the present, whenever great powers have collapsed or decayed, a common cause has been the loss of central authority," Mr. Xi said in a speech last year that was published only this month.
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The initial setting was highly symbolic, as the hill in the center of the Greek capital hosted popular assemblies in the ancient times and is regarded as one of the most important sites in the evolution of democracy.
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Tracking the aesthetic evolution of the Siren from a deadly demon in ancient times to an impossibly sensuous Renaissance nymph, one could argue that the Siren became the embodiment of societal fears about the dangers of female sexuality.
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There had been talk in Israel of countering the flaming kites — a tactic said to have been used by Chinese and Korean generals in ancient times — with F-15s that would retaliate against Hamas targets deep inside Gaza.
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The case provides a window into a merchants' dispute rarely heard in rabbinical courts, vestiges of a religious legal system established in ancient times and prevalent today in Orthodox communities as an alternative to the civil court system.
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The exhibition, its centerpiece a 4th century BC Scythian helmet, highlighted the rich history of the peninsula, a staging post on the silk road between from China to Europe, where Russian, Greek, Turkish cultures have met since ancient times.
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In a television interview in Jerusalem with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Mr. Pompeo was asked whether Mr. Trump was put on earth as a modern-day Queen Esther, who saved the Jews from a Persian official in ancient times.
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State-run news outlets in China angrily denounced Mr. Tillerson's remarks on Friday, vowing to counter any effort by the United States to intervene in the strategically significant waterway, which Beijing argues has been its territory since ancient times.
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"When the mountains collapse, the beaches are sold, the wind from ancient times is polluted, human hearts are also contaminated," she sang, on a break from a sit-in over land rights that she began in 2017 in Taiwan's capital, Taipei.
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Scientists looked at the genomes of 10 Bronze and Iron Age individuals from Ashkelon, which is on the Mediterranean Sea about 40 miles west of Jerusalem and which was known in ancient times as one of five cities of the Philistines.
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"Japan is an island nation surrounded by the ocean and we have been using the whale as food since ancient times," says Kiyoshi Ejima, a lawmaker from Japan's ruling Liberal Democrat Party and a staunch supporter of the whaling industry.
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Peering into INSTINCTUAL DRIFT, what looks like some sort of leisurely feast from ancient times cracks into various fragments that reveal a congested traffic jam, rendered in black and white as if to emphasize the dull, pointlessness of the situation.
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While the research team emphasized that chocolate has been used since "ancient times" to treat a wide range of health complaints, their research was the first cohort study to find a positive correlation between cognitive ability and long-term chocolate consumption.
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In Ireland, fighters routinely adorned their swords and other weapons with jewels and gold, although the vogue in ancient times was to festoon one's sword with the teeth of large sea animals, known colloquially as claideb dét or 'sword of teeth.
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Seemingly always ready for battle due to tumultuous relationship with neighboring tribes in ancient times, and with their neighboring countries in the modern era, Irish stick fighting provided youth with the skillset needed in order to transition from stick to blade.
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One of the enduring lessons Chinese schoolchildren are taught is that the South China Sea has belonged to China since ancient times, a nostrum that President Xi Jinping repeated to state media several hours after the decision was made public.
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Chinese schoolchildren are taught that the sea has belonged to China since ancient times, and President Xi Jinping has used the construction of artificial islands in the sea to fan nationalist sentiment and strengthen his authority over the Chinese military.
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"The compis potato"—shown below—"has been used to treat burns and infections since ancient times," says Maria, a 27-year-old Quechua woman who I met while on a hiking trip with the travel outfitter Mountain Lodges of Peru.
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In doing so, it provides a final answer to a question that has preoccupied mathematicians since ancient times: Under what circumstances is it possible to represent irrational numbers that go on forever—like pi—with simple fractions, like 22/7?
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A dowry system no longer exists in the United States, but in ancient times it was seen as necessary for fathers to provide a dowry when their daughter married as a way of insuring the groom would take care of her.
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The 2019 Asian Art Biennial, for all its curatorial ambition to shift our gaze beyond the generalized narratives by exploring spaces of anarchy in Asia, fails to comprehend the heterogenous and fragmented nature of being Asian, from ancient times through now.
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This means that the Sun will appear in different constellations than the sign attributed to that time; for instance, in ancient times, the first day of spring was in Aries, but now it&aposll be in Pisces until A.D. 2700.
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On Friday afternoon, using blue chalk paint, Stacy Levy plans to palpate a few sidewalks on the Upper East Side of Manhattan to visualize the path of a stream, now out of sight, that has been running since ancient times.
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Professor Abbadi's dream of a new library — a modern version of the magnificent center of learning of ancient times — could be traced to 21990, when, as a scholar at the University of Alexandria, he concluded a lecture with an impassioned challenge.
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In his 1951 The Scientific Monthly report, New Tortillas for Old Mexico, Norton F. Gurley—of Chicago-based Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology—details the chemistry and process of tortilla production, emphasizing that it has remained unchanged since ancient times.
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Image Courtesy of Jay Pasachoff, via The Huntington Library Catalogue; On Display at ArtCenterMay 28th, 585 BCE—"The Battle of the Eclipse"In ancient times, eclipses were sometimes seen as opportunities to communicate with the dead, or more broadly speaking, profoundly spooky events.
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But, other than menstruation, the body had no spontaneous way of getting rid of its blood, so, from ancient times until well into the modern era, bloodletting—using sharpened stones, fish teeth, and, later, lances and fleams—was a cornerstone of medical practice.
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When I feel a sudden need for a deep dive into a subject — say, the transmission of the plays of Aeschylus through scribes and libraries from ancient times to the present — I am grateful to the academics who have done the spadework.
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Although P.R.C. propaganda obsessively asserts that all places and peoples under the C.C.P.'s control today have been Chinese since ancient times, it is the Qing empire (20123–1912) that is responsible for the rooster-shape territory we now associate with China.
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Bitcoin still faces many challenges in becoming a globally accepted currency, Bank of America Merrill Lynch's commodity and derivatives strategist Francisco Blanch said in a sweeping Monday report comparing digital currencies' growth to that of gold, silver and even salt in ancient times.
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The artists conflate Greek mythology and Arab identity politics (though there were no Arabs in Lebanon in ancient times, as their story suggests) to create a legend about the birth of Europe that starkly contrasts with the paranoid and xenophobic EU of today.
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"We had Italy in mind and then I had the idea of a chariot race, a sort of rally from ancient times, a trip across the peninsula leading from one city to another," said Ferri as he and Conrad presented the new edition this week.
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"Since ancient times, Chinese people believed that if you're ethnic Chinese, even if you go to the end of the earth, you are still Chinese," said Liang Yingming, a retired international studies professor at Peking University, who immigrated to the mainland from Indonesia in 1955.
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Netanyahu said the presence of ancient synagogues in the Golan Heights showed that the territory, with a population of about 50,000, had been "an integral part of the Land of Israel since ancient times," and that it remained an integral part of modern Israel.
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It was special and felt like returning to the original party from ancient times; where people gathered around the fire, took some soma and celebrated the coming of age of one of their tribe members under the best light show in the universe—the stars.
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"Taiwan has been an inseparable part of China since ancient times," declared a typical post by Wenjing Mo. Others posted the lyrics of China's national anthem, an essay by former Chinese President Hu Jintao on official conduct, and described Tsai as the governor of Taiwan.
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"In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were given to the Planets, as being the names of their principal heroes and divinities," Herschel explained in a letter to Royal Society president Joseph Banks, following the discovery.
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"Umbria is small, so from ancient times, each area had its own way of calling things, and many of them are still alive," said Diego Mencaroni, who manages an international artists' retreat, Civitella Ranieri, in a grand and ramshackle 15th-century castle in Umbertide.
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Greece has long opposed the name Macedonia for the Balkan country, formerly a part of Yugoslavia, saying that it implied a claim to the northern Greek region of the same name, part of the country since ancient times and the birthplace of Alexander the Great.
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Egyptians gather outdoors in public gardens, in zoos, in public spaces, on boats on the Nile and elsewhere, and feast on salted fermented fish, lettuce, beans and boiled eggs — all foods believed to be what was originally offered to the gods in ancient times.
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"From ancient times to the present, whenever great powers have collapsed or decayed, a common cause has been the loss of central authority," Mr. Xi said in the speech, which was given early last year but not issued till this month in a leading party journal, Qiushi.
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They've been sacrificed to the gods since ancient times, outfitted us in warm coats and scarves, fed us with their milk and meat, healed our chapped skin with the wax secreted from their sebaceous glands, and even have the distinction of being the first mammal cloned.
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Our proposal — a more detailed version of which can be found in this academic paper — leans on a version of collective responsibility, a notion that has something of a bad name in modern law, although it is a legal device that dates back to ancient times.
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Antonio Varone, a former director of the excavations at Pompeii, and the author of a book about Pompeian erotic art, said that sex was seen as "a natural impulse" in ancient times, and that in many cases, homeowners "sought to entertain guests" while showing off their erudition.
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" Mr. Liu's statement came a week after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel led a highly publicized cabinet meeting in one of the Jewish settlements in the Golan Heights and asserted that the territory had been an "integral part of the land of Israel since ancient times.
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The Japanese temple, Kannonji, was not a direct party to the lawsuit, but it argued at the trial that the statue had not been removed from Korea illicitly, noting that there had been legitimate trade in goods, including Buddhist statues, between Korea and Tsushima in ancient times.
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Levirate marriage and its many iterations—its fraternal twin is sororate marriage, when a widower marries his deceased wife's sister—have been de rigueur since ancient times in a wide variety of societies and cultures, such as among the Mongols and the Eskimo, and in Tibet, Turkey, and India.
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In a new study, researchers turned to these crystals — which were ever-present in the top layers of soil and just a few inches below the permafrost for tens of thousands of years — as the basis of radiocarbon dating and uncovered new information about the climate in ancient times.
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Led by Yale historian Joseph Manning, the research charts out the intricate relationship between volcanic eruptions and the summer monsoon that drives the annual flooding of the Nile river, an event upon which Egyptian agricultural production was totally dependent in ancient times (and remains so to this day).
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Whether in the Mosel Valley of Germany, the Northern Rhône Valley of France or Ribeira Sacra in northwestern Spain, to name a few, farmers since ancient times have embraced the idea that wine is worth the enormous effort and possible hazards that go along with such precarious vineyards.
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