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Ancient travelers to Egypt were amazed at the fact that there were doctors specializing in particular areas of medicine and their knowledge was praised, as the pregnancy test shows, it is clear that certain techniques found their ways beyond the shores of the Nile. – Andreas Winkler	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Ancient Brews are very similar people to us, but Ancient Brews don't have the modern tools we do and may have been more in touch with the natural world, if you think about it, if you are only living to 20, you will be looking to your environment for anything that will extend your life, help your diet or cure disease. All these carbohydrate resources and herbs become very important. – Patrick McGovern	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Nearly all of the biblical stories found so far have no parallels in any other ancient synagogue -this is true also of the panels discovered this summer. – Chapel Hill Professor Jodi Magness	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We didn’t have locks, so you can’t help it if you walk in on people if there’s no lock, remember, we’re a bunch of twentysomethings except for me—ancient at 35, so there’s some hormones and they’re raging. – Heather Cairns	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
For the first time, we have an amazing window into what walking was like for a 2 ½ - year-old, more than 3 million years ago, this is the most complete foot of an ancient juvenile ever discovered. – Jeremy DeSilva	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Joking aside, ancient CDs have never been found. – Panayiotis Stefos	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Disgust evolved to protect us from disease in our ancient past. The disgust response today may, or may not, be a good guide to what might make us sick today. – Val Curtis	Found on CNN 5 years ago
For a long time, we thought early mammals from the Cretaceous (145 to 66 million years ago) were anatomically similar and not ecologically diverse, this finding by our team and others reinforce that, even before the rise of modern mammals, ancient relatives of mammals were exploring specialty niches: insectivores, herbivores, carnivores, swimmers, gliders. – Adam Huttenlocker	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
An entire city with a glorious past and ancient history lost its heritage and culture: the tomb of the Prophet Jonah, the minaret of Al-Hadba which is older than Iraq itself. It is great that we were able to save a part of this heritage. – Raghad Hammoudi	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Today, birds are the most diverse and globally widespread group of terrestrial vertebrate animals -- there are nearly 11,000 living species, only a handful of ancestral bird lineages succeeded in surviving the mass extinction event 66 million years ago, and all of today's amazing living bird diversity can be traced to these ancient survivors. – Daniel Field	Found on CNN 5 years ago
A discovery like this — ancient coins bearing the words ‘Freedom’ and ‘Redemption’ — found right before the Jewish Festival of Freedom—Passover — begins is incredibly moving. – Eilat Mazar	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I have been working on some experimental tanning to create replicas of the individual scales, the ancient methods used for making this type of leather are not really well understood. Materials will invariably change chemically and physically after being buried for thousands of years, so there are a lot of complicated scientific processes involved in finding these things out. – Lucy Skinner	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Since professional soccer started in 1979, the problem has always been there. Violence and corruption, it’s a bit like the Greek national debt: Too hard to pay down. Or like Hercules in ancient mythology trying to cut the head off the monster, only to see another appear. But that’s what we need to fix this problem, another Hercules. Someone who is fearless and determined. – Dimitrios Malisiovas	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Does Speaker (John) Boehner need to engage in something like the ancient practice of sacrifice, this time to the right-wing gods? Do we have to sacrifice the economy and help for millions of middle class people? – Chuck Schumer	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
There’s a stereotype of religions, people think of them as old or ancient, afraid of technology. – Michael McBride	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We were surprised by the wonderful state of preservation of the ancient remains, and the richness of the finds being uncovered, the artifacts found in the large building, which seems to be a monastic compound, may indicate that the site was important and perhaps a center for ancient pilgrims in the Judean Shephelah region. – Benyamin Storchan	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It broke my heart seeing these items like this, and when I saw those videos of ISIS destroying them – I couldn’t sleep for days, i was so proud of my ancient city. – Daham Alasaad	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Not only is Africa the storehouse of the ancient fossil heritage for people the world over, it was also the wellspring of everything that makes us human, including our technological prowess, our artistic ability and our supreme intellect. – Robert Blumenschine	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Now is the time for all U.N. member-states to follow the lead of our American friends and recognize our ancient capital of Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel. – Eugene Kontorovich	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
This decision reflects the president’s commitment to an ancient but enduring truth, the president’s decision is an important step toward peace, for there is no peace that doesn’t include Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. – Benjamin Netanyahu	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
This belief started in ancient times, as it was seen as the color reflective of love, both earthly and heavenly. Greek muses wore orange, as did Bacchus, the pagan Roman god, in general terms, a color ascribed to a god perpetuated the hope and belief of immortality. – Leatrice Eiseman	Found on CNN 6 years ago
The scribe has divided most of the text into syllables by using mid-dots. Such divisions are very uncommon in ancient manuscripts, but they do show up frequently in manuscripts that were used in educational contexts. – Brent Landau	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
After the war, Tokyo drastically changed economically and socially due to rapid economic growth through the 1970s, you can see the 400 years of history of Tokyo with perspective views at the museum. ( Just be aware that the Edo-Tokyo Museum is closed until early 2018 for a remodel. Other favorite must-see spots in Tokyo are visiting the shrine atSens?-ji, the insane streets of Shibuya( where you can cross the streets with thousands of other pedestrians, and visiting the beautiful Ueno Park in Tokyo's Tait? city. Sens?-ji is an ancient Buddhist temple — and also Toyko's oldest. ( Clint Henderson) The cherry blossoms at Ueno Park are a sight to see — just make sure you get there at the right time of year. ( Clint Henderson) JAPANESE RESTAURANT CAUGHT ADDING EXCESSIVE WASABI TO FOREIGNERS' ORDERS That might sound like a lot — especially since it's all within city limits — but Krasowski further suggests making Tokyo your temporary home base, and then hopping over to see other parts of the islands. – Yuji Tanaka	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
According to ancient Jewish ritual law, vessels made of pottery are easily made impure and must be broken, stone, on the other hand, was thought to be a material which can never become ritually impure, and as a result ancient Jews began to produce some of their everyday tableware from stone. – Yonatan Adler	Found on FOX News 6 years ago

Ancient travelers to Egypt were amazed at the fact that there were doctors specializing in particular areas of medicine and their knowledge was praised, as the pregnancy test shows, it is clear that certain techniques found their ways beyond the shores of the Nile.

– Andreas Winkler

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Ancient Brews are very similar people to us, but Ancient Brews don't have the modern tools we do and may have been more in touch with the natural world, if you think about it, if you are only living to 20, you will be looking to your environment for anything that will extend your life, help your diet or cure disease. All these carbohydrate resources and herbs become very important.

– Patrick McGovern

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Nearly all of the biblical stories found so far have no parallels in any other ancient synagogue -this is true also of the panels discovered this summer.

– Chapel Hill Professor Jodi Magness

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We didn’t have locks, so you can’t help it if you walk in on people if there’s no lock, remember, we’re a bunch of twentysomethings except for me—ancient at 35, so there’s some hormones and they’re raging.

– Heather Cairns

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

For the first time, we have an amazing window into what walking was like for a 2 ½ - year-old, more than 3 million years ago, this is the most complete foot of an ancient juvenile ever discovered.

– Jeremy DeSilva

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Joking aside, ancient CDs have never been found.

– Panayiotis Stefos

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Disgust evolved to protect us from disease in our ancient past. The disgust response today may, or may not, be a good guide to what might make us sick today.

– Val Curtis

Found on CNN
5 years ago

For a long time, we thought early mammals from the Cretaceous (145 to 66 million years ago) were anatomically similar and not ecologically diverse, this finding by our team and others reinforce that, even before the rise of modern mammals, ancient relatives of mammals were exploring specialty niches: insectivores, herbivores, carnivores, swimmers, gliders.

– Adam Huttenlocker

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

An entire city with a glorious past and ancient history lost its heritage and culture: the tomb of the Prophet Jonah, the minaret of Al-Hadba which is older than Iraq itself. It is great that we were able to save a part of this heritage.

– Raghad Hammoudi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Today, birds are the most diverse and globally widespread group of terrestrial vertebrate animals -- there are nearly 11,000 living species, only a handful of ancestral bird lineages succeeded in surviving the mass extinction event 66 million years ago, and all of today's amazing living bird diversity can be traced to these ancient survivors.

– Daniel Field

Found on CNN
5 years ago

A discovery like this — ancient coins bearing the words ‘Freedom’ and ‘Redemption’ — found right before the Jewish Festival of Freedom—Passover — begins is incredibly moving.

– Eilat Mazar

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I have been working on some experimental tanning to create replicas of the individual scales, the ancient methods used for making this type of leather are not really well understood. Materials will invariably change chemically and physically after being buried for thousands of years, so there are a lot of complicated scientific processes involved in finding these things out.

– Lucy Skinner

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Since professional soccer started in 1979, the problem has always been there. Violence and corruption, it’s a bit like the Greek national debt: Too hard to pay down. Or like Hercules in ancient mythology trying to cut the head off the monster, only to see another appear. But that’s what we need to fix this problem, another Hercules. Someone who is fearless and determined.

– Dimitrios Malisiovas

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Does Speaker (John) Boehner need to engage in something like the ancient practice of sacrifice, this time to the right-wing gods? Do we have to sacrifice the economy and help for millions of middle class people?

– Chuck Schumer

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

There’s a stereotype of religions, people think of them as old or ancient, afraid of technology.

– Michael McBride

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We were surprised by the wonderful state of preservation of the ancient remains, and the richness of the finds being uncovered, the artifacts found in the large building, which seems to be a monastic compound, may indicate that the site was important and perhaps a center for ancient pilgrims in the Judean Shephelah region.

– Benyamin Storchan

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It broke my heart seeing these items like this, and when I saw those videos of ISIS destroying them – I couldn’t sleep for days, i was so proud of my ancient city.

– Daham Alasaad

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Not only is Africa the storehouse of the ancient fossil heritage for people the world over, it was also the wellspring of everything that makes us human, including our technological prowess, our artistic ability and our supreme intellect.

– Robert Blumenschine

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Now is the time for all U.N. member-states to follow the lead of our American friends and recognize our ancient capital of Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel.

– Eugene Kontorovich

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

This decision reflects the president’s commitment to an ancient but enduring truth, the president’s decision is an important step toward peace, for there is no peace that doesn’t include Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

This belief started in ancient times, as it was seen as the color reflective of love, both earthly and heavenly. Greek muses wore orange, as did Bacchus, the pagan Roman god, in general terms, a color ascribed to a god perpetuated the hope and belief of immortality.

– Leatrice Eiseman

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The scribe has divided most of the text into syllables by using mid-dots. Such divisions are very uncommon in ancient manuscripts, but they do show up frequently in manuscripts that were used in educational contexts.

– Brent Landau

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

After the war, Tokyo drastically changed economically and socially due to rapid economic growth through the 1970s, you can see the 400 years of history of Tokyo with perspective views at the museum. ( Just be aware that the Edo-Tokyo Museum is closed until early 2018 for a remodel. Other favorite must-see spots in Tokyo are visiting the shrine atSens?-ji, the insane streets of Shibuya( where you can cross the streets with thousands of other pedestrians, and visiting the beautiful Ueno Park in Tokyo's Tait? city. Sens?-ji is an ancient Buddhist temple — and also Toyko's oldest. ( Clint Henderson) The cherry blossoms at Ueno Park are a sight to see — just make sure you get there at the right time of year. ( Clint Henderson) JAPANESE RESTAURANT CAUGHT ADDING EXCESSIVE WASABI TO FOREIGNERS' ORDERS That might sound like a lot — especially since it's all within city limits — but Krasowski further suggests making Tokyo your temporary home base, and then hopping over to see other parts of the islands.

– Yuji Tanaka

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

According to ancient Jewish ritual law, vessels made of pottery are easily made impure and must be broken, stone, on the other hand, was thought to be a material which can never become ritually impure, and as a result ancient Jews began to produce some of their everyday tableware from stone.

– Yonatan Adler

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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