The magnificent buildings of antiquity fell into disrepair, or were pillaged for their contents.
Conflicts between poorer peoples and richer neighbors have been part of human history since antiquity.
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The enneagram symbol has roots in antiquity and can be traced back to ancient Greece.
This shared direct line to antiquity can form the basis of a strong bilateral relationship.
The provisions of the Iraqi Antiquity laws should be observed on the site of Babylon.
Both parties claim that the islands have been part, since antiquity, of their cultural and political sphere.
C. and acquired a great reputation in antiquity for the instruction he offered in his delightful tales.
The core manuscripts of antiquity were preserved by Islamic civilization, and to a lesser extent, by Irish monks.
Graham Thomas was in a gardening tradition that stretches back to Theophrastus, the most influential botanist of antiquity.
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Benares, or Baranas, was a city of antiquity and mythology in present-day India.
But neither its size nor its antiquity makes it so astounding an achievement.
Today a growing body of scientific literature confirms that antiquity was onto something.
His goal: to unlock antiquity's most intricate, difficult narrative for a modern audience.
Further, what kind of leader molds himself or herself in perfection and cements his or her thinking into antiquity?
Does she ever wonder whether raiding tombs to recover priceless treasures of lost antiquity is worth the body count?
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The altar's carved marble bas-relief sculptures commemorate victories in Gaul and Spain, and are among the great masterpieces of antiquity.
The latest findings were revealed as archaeologists published a paper on the university-led search for Richard III in the journal Antiquity.
The show consists of his muscular, mostly monotone renditions of photos of broken statuary of antiquity, drawings he did in the 1980s.
According to ancient records, the tomb was a repository of exquisite antiquity.
Like Gateholm, Skomer and the Deer Park were settled in pre-antiquity.
The modern suit's padded shoulder has the whiff of an epaulette while accentuating the V-shaped torso of classical antiquity so sought by Brummel.
To 15th and 16th Century scholars, the period following antiquity - the so-called "dark ages"- had almost succeeded in obliterating classical learning forever.
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He was intrigued by the obsession with death and the strain of cruelty which ran through its antiquity, fine arts and vernacular culture.
"There are records of fights dating back to 3000 BC, and the sport was part of the Olympic Games of Antiquity, " the website says.
Change came much more slowly in antiquity than it does today, but antiquity provides some interesting examples of the difference between fundamental and incremental change.
The Ottoman powers in Athens cared nothing for the ruins of Greek antiquity, and had already pillaged them for building stone or bricked them up for gun-placements.
It consists of poetry (often the briefest of fragments), a selection of essays, including several about authors from classical antiquity, and even the libretto of an opera.
The exhibition, at the Basle Museum of Antiquity, features an eclectic choice of objects, from nearly a dozen Syrian museums, and ranging from neolithic idols to Mameluk armour.
It established a basis for human dignity unknown in antiquity.
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Rooted in antiquity, Cinque Terre's five towns date from the early medieval period and barely anything about these five crazily constructed Ligurian villages has changed in over three centuries.
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