Sentence examples for ancient according from inspiring English sources

Each of these techniques is quite ancient, according to the exhibition catalog, probably dating to Paleolithic times, when humans first began to fashion clothing and hunting instruments from plant fibers and animal materials.

But Mexico's president, Vicente Fox, had to postpone a visit to the United States: his drought-hit country owes Texas farmers some 2,000 billion litres (over 1.5m acre-feet) of water which, under an ancient accord, it should have released into the Rio Grande and has not.Stay informed this week and every week Sign up to receive The Economist's round-up of business and politics each week.

The ancient Maya didn't plot their ancient cities according to constellations.

Traces of water inside the moon were inherited from ancient Earth, according to a fresh analysis of lunar rocks brought home by US astronauts.

Canary Wharf, the "second City", an "evil twin" to London's financial district, has overtaken its ancient rival, according to the Financial Times.

Grand opera is dying along with its increasingly ancient audience, according to Peter Gelb, general manager of one of the grandest operas in the world, the Metropolitan in New York.

Atheism is not a modern invention from the western Enlightenment, but actually dates back to the ancient world, according to a new book by a Cambridge academic – which challenges the assumption that humanity is naturally predisposed to believe in gods.

Mr. Moelis, who was hired as the $75,000-a-year strategic planning associate, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010 with a degree in Assyriology, the study of ancient Mesopotamia, according to his résumé on LinkedIn.

BEIJING -- Rare handicrafts from a private museum in Hong Kong that were on display at the Forbidden City in Beijing were stolen on Sunday, forcing a shutdown of one part of the ancient palace, according to an article on Wednesday in the English-language edition of Global Times, a government-run newspaper in Beijing.

The American Society of Dowsers, an organization based in Vermont, claims more than 3,000 members who use various tools — pendulums, L-shaped rods, bobbers — on all manner of mystery, finding minerals and lost objects, and even attaining "ancient wisdom," according to the group's Web site.

They are voracious and ancient, and according to two recent studies, they are everywhere.