Sentence examples for antiquity back from inspiring English sources

Or even way, way, way back to digital antiquity – back to 1997, when Reid Hoffman founded the first social media website, SocialNet.

Subsequent generations of archaeologists have tended to regard men such as Giovanni Belzoni a one-time circus strong-man who shipped Egyptian antiquities back to the British Museum in London as little better than tomb-robbers.Belzoni was the first European to enter the temple at Abu Simbel.

"The US State Department and archaeological extremists have hijacked the Syrian crisis to claim that cultural losses are due to a multi-billion-dollar market in illicit antiquities backed by ISIS, which does not and never has existed," she tells The Creators Project over email.

Keno is of Chinese origin and of great antiquity, dating back at least 2,000 years.

During the twentieth century it became apparent that the earth's rotation was slowing down resulting in days becoming 1.4 milliseconds longer each century – this was verified by comparing the calculated timings of eclipses of the sun with those observed in antiquity going back to Chinese records of 763 BC.

This interest in books and antiquities she brought back to Wales in 1979, when she returned with her husband, teacher and compatriot Cliff Coppack, to live in Ruthin.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, European travelers and tourists brought back antiquities and wrote stories of their journeys, leading to a wave of Egyptomania across Europe.

Stories of men turning into beasts go back to antiquity.

The search for the causes (etiologies) of human diseases goes back to antiquity.

Sledges date back to antiquity; Assyrian and Egyptian reliefs depict huge statues being pulled by sledge.

In architecture, sculpture, and painting, Sri Lanka's traditions extend far back into antiquity.