Sentence examples for a form of ancient from inspiring English sources

It's as though prehistoric Britons built monumental sites as a form of "ancient postcode".

Her father performs dabke, a form of ancient Middle Eastern folk dancing, and is also a computer systems analyst for the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles.

And then there is the Pontic culture, a local population fossilized from Byzantine days who speak a form of ancient Greek.

Through the use of ancient building materials and a full floor plan that had been unearthed, a two-story-tall stoa, a form of ancient Greek public building, was erected.

The "ancient postcodes" theory is very similar to the work of Tom Brooks, who believes the locations of ancient monuments in England and Wales form such precise isosceles triangles that prehistoric Britons must have built them as a form of ancient satnav.

Some people have suggested that it is actually written in a form of ancient Ukrainian in which vowels are omitted.Dr Knight has used a statistical-translation program to debunk this theory by showing that the order and frequencies of symbols do not match those in Ukrainian.

SUP is a form of an ancient Polynesian sport that was repopularized in Hawaii in the early 2000s by surfers with brand names like Laird Hamilton and Gerry Lopez who were looking for a way to train when the surf was flat.

A form of transport since ancient times in Egypt, Greece and Rome, the sport of rowing probably began in England in the 17th and early 18th centuries, before the Oxford-Cambridge university boat race began in 1828.

Chitin the term comes from a Greek word for tunic, a form of clothing worn in ancient Greece was first discovered in 1811 by Henri Braconnot as a substance occurring in mushrooms (Braconnot 1811).

A form of bowls was played in ancient Egypt, and by the Middle Ages the game was well known in continental Europe.

The oldest native ritual tradition, Shinto, was, like most ancient cults, a form of nature worship, to do with fertility, mother goddesses, and so forth.