It has been a fort since ancient times.

Guinea worm disease has been known since ancient times.

History The phrase and concept date to ancient times.

History Tourism in Greece traces its roots to the ancient times.

This is the only word of their language recorded from antiquity.

History Antiquity Padua claims to be the oldest city in northern Italy.

In classical antiquity, it was located in Corduene ( Kardu ).

History The history of the ambulance begins in ancient times, with the use of carts to transport incurable patients by force.

A number of historical epics, especially those made in the 1950s and 1960s, are set in ancient times, particularly in Rome, Greece, or Egypt.

Since ancient times, happiness has been universally seen as a good.

The history of Italian art is the art of Italy through time and space.

History In ancient times, it was the home of Cimmerians and Scythians, as well as the site of Greek colonies.

History In ancient times Heilongjiang was far from any literate civilization, and information was sparse.

The Platani (), known in ancient times as the Alico (, ' and ') is a river in southern Sicily, Italy.

One of the first forms of bridge, those of timber have been used since ancient times.

The number pi (pi) has been studied since ancient times, and so has the concept of irrational numbers.

Similar urban planning methods have dictated the use of various areas for particular purposes in many cities from ancient times.

The arts of ancient Greece have exercised an huge influence on the culture of many countries all over the world, particularly in the areas of sculpture and architecture.

His deposition by Odoacer traditionally marks the end of the western empire, the fall of ancient Rome, and the beginning of the Middle Ages in Western Europe.

Indeed, during those ancient times, Rome had a successful system of co leadership that lasted for over four centuries.

Modern numismatists use this name for the coin because it is not known what it was called in antiquity.

In ancient times, amber found along the Baltic Sea coast was sought by Vikings as well as traders from Egypt, Greece and the Roman Empire.

Towards a History from Antiquity to the Renaissance of Sundials and Other Instruments for Reckoning Time by the Sun and Stars.

But Renaissance humanists, who considered themselves as restoring the glory and nobility of antiquity, had no interest in scientific innovation.

Dietary norms The cuisines of the cultures of the Mediterranean Basin had since antiquity been based on cereals, particularly various types of wheat.

Like many territories in the region, Gaza has had a long history of foreign occupation, extending to ancient times.

The writer Robert Kaplan points to the birth of a new warrior class as cruel as ever and better armed ranging from Russian Mafiosi and Latin American drug kingpins to terrorists who glorify violence just as ancient Greeks did in the sacking of Troy.

History While the early study of trigonometry can be traced to antiquity, the trigonometric functions as they are in use today were developed in the medieval period.

An antiquarian or antiquary (from the Latin antiquarius , meaning pertaining to ancient times) is an aficionado or student of antiquities or things of the past.

But if we can t compete, can we co operate? The two civilizations had centuries of contact in ancient times.

Greeks had lived in Asia Minor since antiquity, and before the outbreak of World War I, up to 2.5 million Greeks lived in the Ottoman Empire.

Since ancient times, happiness has been universally seen as a good. Problems arise when we try to agree on a definition of happiness, and to measure it.

Evolutionary thought, the conception that species change over time, has roots in antiquity, in the ideas of the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese as well as in medieval Islamic science.

Water powered bellows for blast furnaces, used in China in ancient times, were in use in Europe by the 15th century.

Medieval era During the period of the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages, philosophers elaborated on the existing conception of anger, many of whom did not make major contributions to the concept.

Preservation Food preservation methods were basically the same as had been used since antiquity, and did not change much until the invention of canning in the early 19th century.

Materials Water systems of ancient times relied on gravity for the supply of water, using pipes or channels usually made of clay, lead, bamboo, wood, or stone.

Several canals were built in ancient times from the Nile to the Red Sea along or near the line of the present Sweet Water Canal, but none lasted for long.

Mandela for the Ages

An Economist for the Ages

The Jireček Line is a conceptual boundary through the ancient Balkans that divides the influence of the Latin (in the north) and Greek (in the south) languages from Antiquity until the 4th century.

The Chamavi were a Germanic tribe of Roman imperial times whose name survived into the Early Middle Ages.

Iraq, known in classical antiquity as Mesopotamia, was home to the oldest civilizations in the world, with a cultural history of over 10,000 years, hence its common epithet, the Cradle of Civilization.

In addition, many Greek Christian works, including the Greek New Testament, were brought back from Byzantium to Western Europe and engaged Western scholars for the first time since late antiquity.

New ideas in physics, astronomy, biology, human anatomy, chemistry, and other sciences were posing a challenge for many conceptions about nature that had prevailed starting in Ancient Greece and continuing through the Middle Ages.