Sentence examples for distant civilization from inspiring English sources

Even if this distant civilization could spy on us, here's what they'd see right now: Earth about 1010, long before the Industrial Revolution.

The whole thing seemed a kind of distant civilization, a planet of the apings: graying, human flotsam with scorched internal landscapes mimicking the young, picking up where they had left off decades ago, if only they could recall where the hell that was.

The problem with explanations such number one is that it just takes one small group in one distant civilization to break the pact of silence.

1983's Vigilante places them in the remote background behind an abandoned, graffiti-covered school, like the spires of a distant civilization, or the Emerald City.

"At first you think you're just watching this cyclops monk enjoying a meditative ritual on a hilltop of some distant planet, but as he starts to trip out, you realize that he is envisioning a distant civilization that has long since been buried beneath the ocean".

-What can artifacts tell us about distant civilizations?

Both expeditions were intended to prove the possibility of ancient transoceanic contacts between distant civilizations and cultures.

Whether scanning the skies for the semaphores of distant civilizations, or scrutinizing asteroids for fainter signatures left by alien microbes, humans are forever seeking companions that share a sense of rhythm, the universal sign of life.

Any number of immensely distant civilizations could have developed and ultimately perished, while flooding the cosmos with signals that have long since passed or will never arrive so as to intersect with our woefully narrow listening window of mere decades (so far).

"I don't think it implies any links with ancient Egypt or other distant civilizations at all," Parker-Pearson said about these findings.

The distant Mecenian civilization fascinated Macedonia, as witness the pottery excavated at Livadia near Aiane.