Sentence examples for colonial antiquity from inspiring English sources

"I'd bet that every town of colonial antiquity has one," he said from his office at the Connecticut Museum of Natural History in Storrs.

Their bodies were cut up for parts that became sought-after antiquities in colonial homesteads across Australia and in cultural, medical and educational institutions across the US, Britain and continental Europe.

Yet another wrinkle is expected on Wednesday when lawyers working with Cambodia plan to announce the rediscovery of a 1925 French colonial law declaring all antiquities from Cambodia's multitude of temples to be "part of the national domain" and "the exclusive property of the state".

Empire has been a characteristic form of political organization since early antiquity and predates colonial rule by several centuries.

The appetite for revenge is hardly limited to comic-book action heroes like the Punisher and the Bride, but has rather spread across every period and genre, from Roman antiquity ("Gladiator") to colonial and pre-Civil War America ("The Patriot" and "Gangs of New York") to Depression-era Chicago ("Road to Perdition") and into the future.

He is currently engaged in research regarding the repatriation of Egyptian antiquities removed during the colonial period.

You will probably find yourself alone, able to rekindle the experience of colonial French explorers as they first stumbled upon Khmer antiquity.

A three-year prison term was suspended, though an aura of shadiness lingered; Malraux wasn't finished dealing in antiquities of dubious provenance or denouncing the injustice of a colonial regime, and throughout his life his opportunism was as enterprising as his conscientiousness.

Before settling the suit in New York and agreeing to return the Duryodana statue, Sotheby's and seller Decia Ruspoli had argued that the case should be dismissed because as of the 1970s Cambodia had not adopted a clear law declaring antiquities on its soil to be national property, and that French colonial laws predating its 1953 independence were obscure and no longer in force.

The claim cited French colonial laws dating from the early 20th century that provided for state ownership of Cambodian antiquities.

Antiquities were looted over the centuries or appropriated by museums in France, the country's former colonial ruler.