Sentence examples for antiquity information from inspiring English sources

Our first writing assignment was on the Roman encyclopedist Pliny the Elder, whose "Natural History" is a font of Late Antiquity information on a stupefying range of subjects: the history of paper, portents provided by bees, the manufacture of purple dye, Alexander the Great's famous dog.

"An awful lot of the waste in this system is the antiquity of the information technology," Ms. Darling said.

Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity Provides biographical information, bibliography and discussion of each grammarian, including the Greek text of preserved fragments.

Excavation began in the 18th century, when all memory of the existence of Herculaneum had been lost for centuries and the only available reports of it were those that had come down through the authors of antiquity, without any information as to the exact position of the ancient city.

The Hippocratic Oath, a seminal document on the ethics of medical practice, was attributed to Hippocrates in antiquity although new information shows it may have been written after his death.

While objects up for sale at Bonhams are checked against the Art Loss Register (a database of stolen artworks including antiquities), this register does not provide information on antiquities that have been illegally excavated and removed from the ground.

An object found in the shop of an antiquities dealer provides no information.

Since 2008, many museums have listed information about antiquities they have acquired that do not meet the 1970 standard on a website set up by the association.

According to Italian officials, the Met's proposal excluded an Italian demand that the museum turn over information about antiquities of Italian origin lent to the museum by private collectors.

His writings are of particular importance for having preserved valuable information on Arabian antiquities and tribal customs and lore that might otherwise have been lost.

As is shown below, there is a conglomerate of ideas involving a notion of information that has developed from antiquity till recent times, but further study of the history of the concept of information is necessary.