Sentence examples for ancient learning from inspiring English sources

Publishing, Pettegree argues, not only rescued ancient learning from obscurity, it was also a chaotic and financially grinding undertaking.

Most are not on the shelves, and those that are do not quite reflect the spirit of the repository of ancient learning.

Eager to preserve and perpetuate ancient learning, he set out to master the six arts: ritual, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy and arithmetic.

In Islamic Spain, where there was more contact with ancient learning, a form of antirational skepticism developed among Muslim and Jewish theologians.

This first-century BC villa is as renowned for its extraordinary library (the charred remains of which have given the site its name and scholars endless work in piecing together lost examples of ancient learning) as for its sculpture collection.

With the fall of the Roman empire in the west, Europe lost touch with much of its classical inheritance and was isolated by the Arab invasions from the Byzantine empire where some ancient learning survived.

As in the 11th century, interest was mainly centred on a rediscovery of ancient Greek learning.

The dream, he said, is to explore the basin as an ancient ecosystem, learning how dinosaurs interacted with one another and their environment.

(RNS) Fighting in Mali has destroyed or damaged many religious artifacts and buildings in Timbuktu, an ancient Islamic learning center, local experts and a United Nations team have reported.

She is the producer and co-director of the award-winning documentary, The Economics of Happiness, and is the author of Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh.

Ancient toolmakers learned that trick, too.