Among the wreckage, explorers found several kinds of amphoras -- a type of ancient container.
There's an ancient makeup container supposedly used by a queen of Ancient Egypt, sixth-century throwing daggers, 2,300-year-old Greek dreidels, the "best-preserved gladiator trident in the world," and ancient ostrich eggs you're encouraged to punch to test their durability. .
Sometimes a vacation is more curse then blessing – I've been largely away from email and Twitter for about five days now, and returning is less a breath a fresh air and more a deep inhalation of whatever was in that ancient looking Tupperware container found at the back of the fridge behind the pickled artichoke hearts and other infrequently touched items.
There's an ancient make-up container supposedly used by the Queen of Egypt, 6th century throwing daggers, 2,300-year-old Greek dreidels, the "best preserved gladiator trident in the world," and ancient ostrich eggs you're encouraged to punch for durability. .
Archaeologists believe that it was a stamp seal, commonly used in ancient commerce to mark containers by their contents and ownership.
Used from ancient times as a container for melting or testing metals, crucibles were probably so named from the Latin word crux, "cross" or "trial".
The final Byzantine instrument, the bagpipes, known as Dankiyo (from ancient Greek: angion "the container"), had been played even in Roman times.
Tradition is found here: silver has been used since the days of the ancient Greeks to purify water containers.
But the workers, who are untrained and overwhelmed, are reportedly emptying the containers elsewhere in the ancient city — protecting one structure at the expense of another.
In the days after the World Trade Center attack, a friend commented that ancient Jewish rituals felt like a container that could "hold the sadness".
