Sentence examples for ancients from inspiring English sources

The songs fell silent when people reached the austere amphitheatre of the Union Buildings, built in light sandstone a century ago and in the style of the ancients – the government describes it as a "modern-day acropolis" atop a hill.

The first people in recorded history to study the human voice were the ancients Greeks, a race fascinated by the differences in the vocal spectrum and their varying impact on our emotions.

The ancients imagined it as the southern petal of a lotus island that sits in the centre of the Brahmanda, which translates rather inelegantly to "universe-egg".

(Such reconstructions, sometimes used in murder cases where only skeletal remains of the victim are available, produce reliable depictions of recently dead people, so the assumption is that ancients really did look like the reconstructions made of them).None of this absolutely proves Dr Elia's hypothesis.

Can people be trusted to harness it for good?The ancients thought not.

Now an Egyptologist seems to have solved the riddle by looking at how the ancients got it wrong, rather than how they got it right.Using the heavens as a compass is complicated by precession the slow swivelling of the earth's axis that causes the celestial north pole (the point in the heavens directly above the earth's north pole) to trace out a circle every 25,800 years.

But this new approach could narrow down that margin to just five years or so.No doubt Dr Spence's work will disappoint some people most notably, those who take the meticulous design of the pyramids as evidence either of extraterrestrial intelligence, or of the omniscience of the ancients.

Some of those topics are too modern for the ancients to have anything direct to say.

For Mr Krugman, we are living through a "Dark Age of macroeconomics", in which the wisdom of the ancients has been lost.What was this wisdom, and how was it forgotten?

The ancients also understood that trees can increase rainfall and deforestation can reduce it.

His period looked back, after all to the tenth-century Holy Roman Empire of Charlemagne, and further, to the early Christians and the ancients before them.