Sentence examples for thus ancient from inspiring English sources

Thus ancient geometry gained an association with the sublime to complement its earthy origins and its reputation as the exemplar of precise reasoning.

Thus ancient historians, such as Livy, explained all aspects of early Rome's internal political development in terms of a single sustained social movement.

Thus ancient stone Bodhisattvas with missing limbs spread around the world's museums conjure the bloody reality of landmine victims; the tortured bodies of disappeared political activists lie hidden in sacred burial grounds.

Thus, ancient African apemen travelled half the world, made homes across Indonesia and, in one case, were washed out to sea to end up colonising a remote island that was already populated with pygmy elephants, called stegadons, and giant Komodo dragons, which are still found on the island.

Thus, ancient physiographic elements of the Sarno River plain are still recognizable in the present-day topography.

Thus ancient hunter-gatherers of the far north were already pale and blue-eyed, but those of central and southern Europe had darker skin.

Thus, this ancient obligate endosymbiont displays convergent characteristics of many other ancient insect endosymbionts, such as high coding density, low G+C content, absence of mobile genetic elements, and depleted DNA recombination and repair pathways (McCutcheon and Moran 2012).

Thus, the ancient complementarity between arithmetic and geometry remains the essence of analysis.

Thus the ancient biographers throw light on the circumstances in which Virgil's Aeneid was published.

Thus, the ancient crystallines were lifted in places above the more recent sedimentary rock deposits.

Thus, in ancient Egypt the pharaoh was divine because he descended from the sun god Re.