He said he now feared for the ancient temple's safety from the nearby plants.
The United Nations expressed alarm on Monday over the safety of ancient books and documents in the storied city of Timbuktu as reports said that rebels had pillaged and looted the Ahmad Baba Institute of Higher Islamic Studies and Research, as well as other institutions.
The devotees of Krishna commemorate the events of his birth by preparing elaborate representations of Mathura, where he was born, the Yamuna River, over which he was transported to safety, and Gokul (ancient Vraja), the scene of his childhood, using small images of the god, the other participants, and the animals and birds of the forest.
The caves have proved to be a safety deposit box of other ancient bones, including the skull of a Northern Lynx dated at around 1,770 years old and the remains of an Arctic fox and Arctic lemming.
In ancient Israel, the core of the social safety net is the requirement to leave part of the field unharvested, and available to impoverished gleaners (Lev 19 9-10).
We conducted the laboratory work in a dedicated ancient DNA clean-laboratory with Class II Safety Cabinets (HERAsafe KSP9; Thermo Scientific, Waltham, USA) and 4 hours of UV-light decontamination between the working steps.
His trousers were an ancient pinstripe, fastened at the waist with a safety pin; his greyed vest was heavily dusted with cigarette ash.
In recent days, fighting in and around Timbuktu has led to serious concerns about the safety of the tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts there.
Because of his connections to Macedon, Aristotle reasonably feared for his safety and left Athens, remarking, as an oft-repeated ancient tale would tell it, that he saw no reason to permit Athens to sin twice against philosophy.
We don't want them to fight to the death like ancient history, yet we aren't doing enough to ensure their safety.
Like today's Syrians, Aeneas flees an ancient war in the Middle East and crosses the Mediterranean in search of safety.
