Sentence examples for reflection of the ancient from inspiring English sources

The Babylon project is Iraq's biggest and most ambitious by far, a reflection of the ancient city's fame and its resonance in Iraq's modern political and cultural heritage.

The class gets one last period of reflection over the ancient works as the portable x-ray fluorescence instrument gets set up.

The collection's remarkable globes, star charts and moon maps, some of which can be seen for another two weeks at an Adler exhibition called "Mapping the Universe," suggest that the modern planetarium is just another reflection of ancient cosmological impulses, wrestling over the shape of the heavens.

But upon closer reflection, I realized the ancient adage was conveying a profound message.

Some atheistic responses to suffering and meaninglessness, such Friedrich Nietzsche's reflections on tragedy or Albert Camus's "existentialist" interpretation of the ancient myth of Sisyphus, stand directly in this tradition.

The ceremony closed with dozens of Buddhist monks shuffling through the temple chanting from ancient scriptures, a reflection of the tea ceremony's origins in Zen meditation as a path to enlightenment.

But if the ancient descriptions of the tomb are even a pale reflection of the truth, that amount of masonry is unlikely to have wandered far.

The entire story of Pharnavaz, although written by a Christian chronicler, abounds in ancient Iranian-like imagery and mystic allusions, a reflection of the archaeologically confirmed cultural and presumably political ties between Iran and Kartli of that time.

Of the ancient Greek Alexandria little survives.

Like many of the ancient villages….

Returning to the time of the ancient knowledge.