This is an ancient law.

Rome is an ancient city.

David Macaulay's Rome Antics

I like to learn the ancient language.

Fiorenzo Omenetto Silk, the ancient material of the future

It is an ancient, popular and traditional festival.

He was very good at playing to that ancient Western stereotype of the Wise Man from the East.

If this was done to my sister or daughter, there would be blood spilt.

Among the many Syrian cities and towns making news headlines today is Homs, a city which dates back to 2300BC.

It was one of the most important Phoenician cities, and may have been the oldest.

As the ancient writer of Ecclesiastes wrote, he said, there's every activity under heaven.

Roughly 750 million years ago, the earliest known supercontinent Rodinia, began to break apart.

Often when the channel does this, some of its flow remains in the abandoned channel.

It was a very old ritual that seemed symbolic of the political struggle that was changing the face of South Africa.

Toraja s oldest dance, Pa'Tirra', was performed during the ceremony Rambu Tuka' (an expression of gratitude to God).

But like his namesake, Socrates' politics have run him afoul of authorities.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

However, the ancient political and cultural history of the city was almost entirely independent from that of the rest of Kerala.

But the Moon Illusion is not only captivating to behold it also happens to be perhaps the oldest unsolved problem in science.

Tell Yunatsite is quite possibly the most ancient of them all, given that artefacts from 4900 BC have been found here.

Machu Picchu may be an ancient city, but there are still new things to discover.

Scientists estimate that C. porosus is an ancient species that could have diverged from 12 to 6 million years ago.

Ordo Aureæ Rosæ Crucis (Antique Arcanæ Ordinis Rosæ Rubeæ et Aureæ Crucis)(OARC) ?

So the very simple idea was to use the ancient technique of sailing and tacking of the wind to capture or intercept the oil that is drifting down the wind.

On March 20 21, people in Tajikistan celebrate Navruz (Nowruz), an ancient festival that marks the beginning of spring and is often referred to as the Persian New Year .

What could two cultures as distant in time and space as ancient Rome and the modern Japan have in commom?

Early man used his fingers and toes to count the animals he owned, or the measures of grain he had stored.

In her talk, Clinton evoked the ancient Chinese aphorism Tongzhou Gongji When on a common boat, cross the river peacefully together.

Since the country's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, ala kachuu, or bride kidnapping, has become a common occurrence in Kyrgyzstan's provincial towns and villages.

Though Italian is universally spoken, the other official language of Sardinia is Sardinian or Sard, an ancient Romance language.

It is an age old question, one that harks back to Plato, who in his Laws saw the need to punish by death those who commit egregious crimes.

For example, though Plato opposed the enslavement of Greeks, he like every other ancient Greek condoned the enslavement of barbarians (non Greeks).

And even though I have a complicated relationship with the concept of god, I decided after all to use this ancient symbol of our kinship, shared culture and history.

For example, even though (positive) is greater than (positive) , writtennegative is considered to be less than negative (Because, for example, if you have 8 you have less than if you have 5.

The ancient oasis city of Al Ain is a must see, dotted with archaeological sites, while the striking Al Jahili fort is also well worth a visit.

Also known as Bhadgaon or Khwopa ( ), it is an ancient Newar city in the east corner of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, about eight miles from the capital city, Kathmandu.

During the 6th millennium BC, agriculture spread from the Balkans to Italy and Eastern Europe, and also from Mesopotamia to Egypt.

In 2006, he completed a three year study of local government in Iran hardly the stuff of insurrection and regime change. But Tajbakhsh was also a consultant to the Soros Foundation, which, according to Ahmadinejad s government, has worked against Islam. That idea is preposterous.

He has been a consultant to several Iranian ministries on urban planning, and helped the government in major rebuilding projects after the devastating earthquake that destroyed the ancient city of Bam in 2003.

And for the spiritual, you can find the largest Buddha statue in nirvana, visit the ancient Zoroastrian temple, and speak the mother tongue of Imam al Bukhari.

For the first time, research in the cognitive sciences, building on theoretical arguments emerging from moral philosophy, has made it possible to resolve the ancient dispute about the origin and nature of morality.

There is also the ancient site of Side, which has already been rapidly developed with hotels, and the ancient temple at Gobeklitepe, which heritage groups want to designate a UNESCO world heritage site.

This alludes to an ancient episode in which soldiers from the warring states of Wu and Yue found themselves on the same boat on a river in a storm and agreed to put down their arms to make a common passage.

So, living at the equator, we got lots and lots of ultraviolet radiation and the melanin this wonderful, complex, ancient polymer compound in our skin served as a superb natural sunscreen.

Or, in the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald, As the moon rose higher, the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that once flowered for Dutch sailors' eyes, a fresh green breast of the new world.