The oldest example, at El Castillo, proved to be at least 37,300 years old, which the scientists said "considerably increases the antiquity of this motif and implies that depictions of the human hand were among the oldest art known in Europe".
As plastic realism continues its ascendancy, modernism and postmodernism will both, in retrospect, assume increasing aspects of antiquity--curiosities for their own sake.
The antimicrobial properties of silver have been known from antiquity, and increasing antibiotic resistance of bacteria and the ineffectiveness of synthetic antibiotics against some bacterial strains have led to the reemergence of interest in silver, silver salts, silver compounds, and nanocrystalline silver as antibacterial agents.
Standing at the head of the enormous representational discoveries of the Renaissance and with an increased knowledge of antiquity, Vasari was convinced that his contemporaries were in a position to understand the secret of true artistic style.
The study of Aristotle through close textual reading of his works continued, if not increased, in Late Antiquity.
For this reason the exegetical activity on this short but difficult treatise never stopped but in fact increased in Late Antiquity.
Crossbows, which had been known in Late Antiquity, increased in use partly because of the increase in siege warfare in the 10th and 11th centuries.
They were convinced that any Western attention paid to Malian antiquities increased the market value and encouraged looting.
The Getty, along with many other American museums, has been under increasing scrutiny on the question of antiquities.
Mr. Abdel Fattah is expected to wield less power than Mr. Hawass, a media celebrity who was credited with increasing tourism and securing the return of antiquities from foreign museums and collectors.
Advances in analytical technology have led to increasing interest in the scientific examination of precious artefacts and antiquities.
