The plot of "The Da Vinci Code" is a twist on the ancient search for the Holy Grail.
But there were moments in his journalistic activities when he would have liked a degree of privacy to protect his interlocutors.In the end, as one participant in the forum quipped, there are times when the ancient search for philosophical truth and the modern concern of cyber-security seem to converge.
Children of the 1990s went from using Alta Visa (the ancient search engine, if you remember it) to scrounge Angelfire websites (if you remember those) for GameShark codes to programming the massive online battle simulator, Pokémon Showdown.
The keywords used for the ancient literature search included TaiLianChuang, NaiXuan, RuXuan, XueFengChuang, SiWanFeng, JinYinChuang, TaiXuan, LianMeiChuang and LianMeiChuang, which were obtained from twelve textbooks or books, such as Dermatovenerology of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine and External Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
This serene clustering of pavilions, whose vast overhanging roofs draw on age-old Sinhalese precedents, seems at once timeless and contemporary, the perfect symbol of a young democracy and ancient culture searching for a unified identity during terrible ethnic strife.
But while ancient Polynesians searched the Pacific for new islands of resource and habitat, the PVS mission is setting out to cross 50,000 nautical miles, circumnavigating the world in an effort to change it.
According to the Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions, queer theorists and activists have reinterpreted ancient texts "searching for alternative voices" that demonstrate the diversity of gender models and sexualities in Hinduism.
I certainly wouldn't have been able to tell you the difference between palaeontologists searching for ancient bones, and the search for the Loch Ness Monster.
But even as these returns are being made, looters are devastating ancient sites in search of prized artifacts to sell on the international market.
Mr. Umewaka evoked an ancient warrior in search of Zen learning in "Hojo," a restaging of a 16th-century play, and Mr. Kanze portrayed a lovelorn woman reciting pathos-laden poetry in "Izutsu," by the 15th-century playwright Zeami.
Their journey into a mysterious ancient town – in search of the identity of the second skeleton – has its share of unsettling encounters, not with the supernatural "boggles" said to walk the streets, but a more corporeal menace.
