The first thing you discover about the residents of Hebron, whom the world derisively describes as settlers -- as if Jews living in their own ancient capital are newcomers -- is their warmth, friendliness and hospitality.
This practice is very ancient because various human groups used dogs for warmth on cold nights according to anthropologists.
The general consensus regarding the Yule Log is that in the chilly midst of winter, ancients burned a large log not only for warmth, but as a tribute to the sun and the promise of Spring.
This traditional hostel radiates Persian warmth and hospitality, and it's a perfect base for exploring the ancient city.
But approaching an ancient hill town at dusk after long miles on foot and climbing wearily towards warmth, shelter and huge plates of pasta made us feel like real pilgrims.
The earliest community sites for the ancient Homo species, possibly beginning 400,000 years, are supposedly within caves requiring fire for warmth and for cooking of food [ 128].
Half the participants, chosen at random, attended a six-week workshop on an ancient mind-training practice known as metta, or "lovingkindness," that teaches participants to develop more warmth and tenderness toward themselves and others.
The realization comes when a crabbed, ancient creature in a wheelchair asks a young man to hold his hand; he needs the human warmth, he says.
But new analyses of the imprints left by raindrops in ancient, now-solidified volcanic ash bolsters the notion that greenhouse gases alone were responsible for the anomalous warmth at that time, researchers report online today in Nature.
Ancient people imagined that the extremes of darkness harbored a rebirth of the sun in which the warmth and generative power of life shifts from waning to waxing.
