But the masterpieces at the center of the exhibitions introduce visitors to the lost world of the flamboyant, nomadic warriors known as the Scythians.
One of the most exciting things that a well-produced play can do is serve as a time machine, giving modern-day audiences a privileged glimpse of a corner of the lost world of the past.
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With the passing of Margaret Thatcher, the world has lost one of the most iconic, formidable and courageous leaders of the 20th Century.
Meanwhile, the New York Times reports that News Corp. may recapture a chunk of the lost revenues from closing News of The World by shifting its 200 employees to start a Sunday edition of The Sun.
The musical world lost one of its greatest talents this weekend, and though the human toll must be considered first, the economics of Winehouse and her music are staggering.
Klebnikov was the first American reporter to be murdered in Russia, and with his silencing the world lost one of its foremost experts on the vast and murky crossroads of Russian organized crime, Kremlin politics, Chechen terrorists, billionaire oligarchs, and the spread of Russian mafia conglomerates around the world.
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During a time when most of the world lost a significant portion of their wealth, many did not.
If this plan succeeds, News Corp. could eventually recapture much of the lost revenue from closing News of the World.
After killing Artorias you open up the rest of this lost world to explore, including the new multiplayer arena, the Battle of Stoicism.
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Last January the world lost one of its best and most reclusive authors, J.
IBM, the titan of the computing world at the time, quickly lost control of its own creation, allowing others to reap the benefits.
McIlroy, who missed the cut in his first event of the season since switching to the clubs of his new sponsor Nike, then lost in the first round of the WGC World Championship last week, got into red fingers on the back nine.
They won the election, the local region lost a major developing industry and the world lost perhaps the most developed example of sustainable harvesting.
Sooner or later somebody, usually Charlie, gets around to saying or doing something embarrassingly pretentious, and all at once you remember the alchemic creativity with which the Odets of the 1930s turned working-class slang into poetry, and sigh at the thought of what the American stage lost when he turned his back on the world of "Golden Boy" and "Awake and Sing!"
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The stock of the world's largest chipmaker has lost more than half of its value since the beginning of the year, when optimism for a recovery in technology spending was higher.
"This government has done more than any other to improve conditions in developing countries but all the billions of debt relief cannot compensate for the hundreds of thousands of lives that are lost in conflict zones throughout the world each year, " he said.
Then there is Erdogan's goal of reasserting Turkish regional dominance and reclaiming the lost power of the Ottomans as the leader of the Islamic world.
Unlike the News of the World, the Sun has not yet lost the support of the public or advertisers.
So when Black Heels crossed my desk, I tucked it in my bag on a Friday afternoon, and looked forward to a weekend on my couch (I was also stricken with my 287th cold of the season) lost in a fantasy world of love, and good cooking and strapping cowboys wrangling cattle.
The world champions lost 13 of their 22 fixtures under Robinson, who was axed last November.
They are lost in the world of sports and no one is catering to their needs.
"Fans are worried Ronaldo won't concentrate on soccer and get lost in the flashy world of Madrid, " said Madrid-based Jeremy Booker of Footballeconomy.com.
But the developed world has lost sight of direct productive activity.
But they have suffered a marked downturn in fortunes since then and having failed to progress beyond the first round of the 2003 World Cup on home soil, they have lost 11 of their last 12 one-day internationals.
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Equally distorting is the myth of a Golden Age, a lost world of happy families before modern society did its damage.
The fact that the platform concept originated in the world of technology was not lost on all political observers.
The Labour Party is calling for an immediate start to the judicial phone-hacking inquiry so evidence will not be lost as the News of the World closes.
But environmentalists have complained of a lost opportunity, saying the world is running out of time to tackle the problem.
I've lost the love of my life and the world has lost a visionary and a creative and generous spirit who touched so many people all over the world.
On 6 July 2011, Mr Bryant said that Rebekah Brooks should resign from her current post as News International chief executive after editing the News of the World during a period in which the paper "completely lost sight of any idea of decency".
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