Edinburgh, despite the ancient fame of its medical school, was regarded as a provincial centre.
The dish most fervently claims its ancient fame and place at top of the best-regarded Persian dishes: the meat is moist, juicy, aromatic, and a perfect accent to the buttery saffron rice accented with Tah-Chin, a savory, saffron rice-cake.
Cities in this region have not shouted their claims, or investigated them, or tried to trade them for the tourist dollar, as energetically as have the big hitters in ancient city fame, such as Rome, Athens or even Cirencester.
The second, a large and extremely influential treatise upon which all the ancient and modern fame of Diophantus reposes, is his Arithmetica.
The Babylon project is Iraq's biggest and most ambitious by far, a reflection of the ancient city's fame and its resonance in Iraq's modern political and cultural heritage.
Rollers, which gained fame as ancient Egypt's sacred giant scarabs, are "fun to watch," said Dr. Kaufman, although he added that "tunnelers are also very neat".
Nikos Vergetis, who rents a shop in one of these buildings, at Agiou Filippou 14, is sanguine about the result: "personal benefit must be set apart from the fame of ancient monuments", he muses.
PAGE B1 Thor Heyerdahl Dies at 87 The Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer with controversial theories of ancient seafaring migrations won fame in 1947 for navigating a broad stretch of the Pacific in the balsa-log raft Kon-Tiki.
The Social Security Administration released its annual rundown of the most popular names for newborns on Friday, and flying up the list was an ancient name with modern fame: Cullen, the surname of one handsome bloodsucker, Edward, in the frighteningly popular vampire films "Twilight," based on the best-selling novels by Stephenie Meyer.
VIENNA, AUSTRIA--The ginkgo tree, already distinguished for its medicinal properties and ancient history, has another claim to fame.
The village derives much of its fame from the sassi, ancient cave-homes carved directly into the rock of the surrounding hills.
