A marble terrace rises above the marble balustrades that surround it, upon which stand beautiful ancient bronzes in the shapes of caldrons, cranes, turtles, compasses, and ancient measuring instruments.
Shia Islam exempts you from fasting for ten days if you are away from home, but if you want to extend the exemption after that you have to travel just over 25 miles a day (equivalent to 8 farsang, an ancient measure of distance) to justify it.
(A cubit is an ancient measure based on the distance from an adult's elbow to their fingertips, roughly 20 inches).
The head, which the Kimbell bought at Sotheby's for $4.5 million, a record for a classical antiquity and an ancient bronze, measures 11 3/4 inches in height.
The aim of this study is to evaluate Avicenna's (Iranian ancient physician) measures and treatments used for wounds and ulcers healing.
Shen Kuo even took an interdisciplinary approach to archeological study, in order to aid his work in astronomy, mathematics, and recording ancient musical measures.
laevis system provides an ideal testing ground for ideas about whole genome duplication, as the timing of the X. laevis tetraploidization is neither "too recent" compared with the lifetime of a duplicated locus, nor "too ancient" for measures of nucleotide variation to have reached saturation.
Or explore Lastovo's tumbledown Old Town, which is hidden in the island's interior – an ancient protective measure against pirates.
The ancient English measure of a chain had no connection to the God-created Hebrew alphabet, but was based on what a man and an ox could be expected to plough in one day – one acre, divided into 66 units of 660 foot-long trenches.
