Sentence examples for ancient builders from inspiring English sources

Ancient builders and surveyors needed to be able to construct right angles in the field on demand.

Tour guides at the groups' lavishly ornamented lodges, mostly built around 1900, are explaining ceremonial rituals in newly restored rooms with murals of ancient builders polishing stones and vitrines full of gold pendants and domed velvet hats.

Some scholars in the year 4514, familiar with ancient accounts describing the diminutive structure as a "skyscraper," will no doubt speculate about the significance of its height — although they will be forced to admit that 1,368, the number of "feet" from base to roof, was a figure with no known significance in the culture of the ancient builders.

Using topographical data from Nasa and satellite imaging, which can spot chemical changes in the landscape left by ancient builders, Ms Parcak has identified a possible site for Itj-tawy.

Ancient builders created streets akin to cul-de-sacs, most likely by happenstance, in the Mesopotamian city of Ur and in Nineveh, the most populous settlement of the Assyrian Empire, in what is now Iraq.

The movers walked the replica about 328 feet (100 m) in 40 minutes; from this demonstration and assuming the ancient builders would have been somewhat of experts at their jobs, Lipo suspects they would have moved the Rapa Nui statues about 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) a day, meaning transport would have taken about two weeks.

Sample question: "What ancient pyramid builders tamed, worshiped and eventually mummified their pet cats?" The contestants too are bland.

Living in Rome had made me conscious of the long, tentacular reach of those dogged ancient empire builders, so I knew that they had left their mark on the Provencal landscape.

-- Do as the Romans do: The vast sea walls created by ancient Roman builders may help scientists create modern concrete walls to protect shoreline environments from rising sea levels.

And the bitumen that ancient boat builders heated to seal and waterproof ships has been linked to lung cancer as well as tumors in the respiratory and digestive tracts.

From Maya end-time predictions, to ancient alien pyramid builders, to Nostradamus, to an Atlantean super-culture, such documentaries grab the attention of television viewers by claiming, essentially, that those boring scientists in their ivory towers don't have a particularly good idea of or not a particularly interesting explanation for what happened in the past and when.