He yields to the moment's embrace, yet surely he is wise to a heritage of ancient sins.
(Revision International, a Denver cooperative that distributes food grown by low-income families, won that prize; Hayden Flour Mills of Phoenix, which works to revive heritage and ancient grains, won the people's choice award).
It is noteworthy, however, that these formal changes were the result not of claims to the heritage of ancient Rome or of universal pretensions but simply of rivalry with Byzantium.
And Muslim scholars did much to preserve the intellectual heritage of ancient Greece; centuries later it helped spark Europe's scientific revolution.Not only were science and Islam compatible, but religion could even spur scientific innovation.
Her good companions for heritage and ancient wheats were braised and roasted meats, and, if you didn't want meat with your farro, white bean, and cabbage soup, that was O.K., too.
Such projects are also contributing to the rapid demise of the city's remaining built heritage, as ancient sites are bulldozed to make way for these vertical extrusions of inflated land values.
The country's first culture minister was appointed two years ago, but the ministry produces few ideas about how to save, let alone promote, Nigeria's heritage.The ancient walled cities of Benin, in the south, and Kano, in the north, are in a pitiable state of decay.
When Nineveh fell in 612 B.C., the library, loaded with the cultural heritage of ancient Mesopotamia, fell too, its contents lost until the middle of the 19th century, when British archaeologists dug up its remains and British scholars cracked the cuneiform code of the tablets.
Nowadays, preserving architectural heritage and ancient monuments from disasters is an important issue in the cultural life of modern societies.
