Evidence from the archaeological and historical record of Ancient Rome and medieval Mesopotamia indicates that coins were collected and catalogued by scholars and state treasuries.

" The Epidauria and the Arrival of Asclepius in Athens " in Ancient Greek Cult Practice from the Epigraphical Evidence.

* de Boer, Jelle Zeilinga, Jeffrey P. Chandon & John Rigby Hale, " New Evidence for the Geological Origins of the Ancient Delphic Oracle ," Geology 29. 8, 707-711 ( 2001 )

Evidence of its legacy is apparent in numerous cultures, including Ancient Europe, and the Middle East.

* Hapgood, Charles Hutchins ; Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age ; 1966 ; 1997 Paperback Reprint Edition, Adventures Unlimited Press, ISBN 0-932813-42-9

Evidence for such wooden domes over round buildings in Ancient Greece, if they existed, has not survived and the issue is much debated.

Evidence from Ancient Egypt shows that the early Egyptians knew how to assemble planks of wood into a ship hull as early as 3000 BC.

* In Search of Ancient Gods: My Pictorial Evidence for the Impossible ( Corgi books, 1976 ) ISBN 0-552-10073-0

* Christopher Lillington-Martin, " Archaeological and Ancient Literary Evidence for a Battle near Dara Gap, Turkey, AD 530: Topography, Texts & Trenches ", British Archaeological Reports ( BAR ) – S1717, 2007 The Late Roman Army in the Near East from Diocletian to the Arab Conquest Proceedings of a colloquium held at Potenza, Acerenza and Matera, Italy ( May 2005 ) edited by Ariel S. Lewin and Pietrina Pellegrini with the aid of Zbigniew T. Fiema and Sylvain Janniard.

* See: Chepey, S. Nazirites in Late Second Temple Judaism: A Survey of Ancient Jewish Writings, the New Testament, Archaeological Evidence, and other Writings from Late Antiquity.

His other documentary credits include narrating A Passion for Faith ( the history of black Catholics in America ), Eyes on the Prize ( dedicated to legendary singer Marian Anderson ), Walking with Dinosaurs, Jesus: The Complete Story, Land of the Mammoth: Ancient Evidence, The Ballad of Big Al, The Science of Big Al, Engineering the Impossible ( The Colosseum ), Greatest Places and Echoes from the White House, God vs. Satan and Jewels of the Rift ( about the life cycles of African cichlid fish in Lake Tanganyika ).

Moorey, Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.

* Fabian, P. ( 1996 ) " Evidence of Earthquake Destruction in the Archaeological Record – The Case of Ancient Avdat ", in Big Cities World Conference on Natural Disaster Mitigation in Conjunction with the Tenth International Seminar on Earthquake Prognostics, Abstracts, Jan. 5-10, 1996, Cairo, Egypt: 25.

Evidence of refined floristry is found as far back as the culture of Ancient Egypt.

* Ancient History: Evidence and Models ( 1985 ).

Ancient Athens and Modern Ideology: Value, Theory and Evidence in Historical Sciences.

Ancient History, Evidence and Models, Chatto & Windus, ( London 1985 ).

The Temple Art of Ancient Malta ( May 1999 ) by Caroline Malone, pp 148 – 163 in: ' Ancient Goddesses: The Myths and Evidence ', edited by L. Goodison and C. Morris, jointly published by British Museum Press, London, and the University of Wisconsin Press, 224 pp, ISBN 978-0-299-16320-4

* The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ ( College Press: Joplin, MI 1996 ).

About 1500 delegates are expected to register today for the biennial session of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States.

We find, for example, such groupings as the Five Ancient Rulers, the Five Sacred Mountains, the Five Directions ( with Center ), the Five Metals, Five Colors, Five Tastes, Five Odors, Five Musical Notes, Five Bodily Functions, Five Viscera, and many others.

The Ancient Greek word for seaweed was φῦκος ( fūkos or phykos ), which could mean either the seaweed ( probably red algae ) or a red dye derived from it.

The word Anaasází is Navajo for " Ancient Ones " or " Ancient Enemy ".

The Ancient Pueblo favored building under such overhangs for shelters and building sites.

While the amount of winter snowfall varied greatly, the Ancient Pueblo depended on the snow for most of their water.

The Ancient Pueblo culture is perhaps best known for the stone and adobe dwellings built along cliff walls, particularly during the Pueblo II and Pueblo III eras.

Earlier than 900 CE progressing past the 13th century, the population complexes were a major center of culture for the Ancient Pueblo Peoples.

Throughout the southwest Ancient Puebloan region and at Mesa Verde, the best known site for these large number of well preserved cliff dwellings, housing, defensive and storage complexes were built in shallow caves and under rock overhangs along canyon walls.

They settled first in the Ancient Pueblo areas for a few hundred years, then migrated to their current location.

It has also been recently suggested that the rapid climatic collapse, marking the Akkadian Dark Age, may have been responsible for the religiously prescribed prohibition against the raising and consumption of pigs that spread through the Ancient Middle East from the end of the third millennium BC.

Ancient Egyptians burned ambergris as incense, while in modern Egypt ambergris is used for scenting cigarettes.

Ancient authors were almost invariably from an elite background for whom giving poor and uneducated people power over their betters seemed a reversal of the proper, rational order of society.

The name is derived from the Ancient Greek words for " earless " in both cases: the monkey is missing external ears, and the pea is missing earlike bracteoles.

Ancient Lessons for Global Politics.

He wrote " The Princes of the Lost Tribe " and " Ancient Queen of Somawathee " for Menaka De Shabandu and Bridget Halpe's choirs, respectively, based on historical incidents in ancient Sri Lanka.

However, perhaps the first organised attempt to conserve cultural patrimony was the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in the UK, influenced by the writings of John Ruskin the society was founded by William Morris and Philip Webb in 1877.

One early example is the founding in 1877 of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in Britain to protect the built heritage, this society continues to be active today.

Androphagi ( Ancient Greek: " Ἀνδροφάγοι " for " man-eaters ") was an ancient nation of cannibals north of Scythia ( according to Herodotus ), probably in the forests between the upper waters of the Dnepr and Don.

Oreichalkos, the Ancient Greek translation of this term, was later adapted to the Latin aurichalcum meaning " golden copper " which became the standard term for brass.

The Edicts of Ashoka established constitutional principles for the 3rd century BC Maurya king's rule in Ancient India.

A further example comes from Ancient Greece, where the Athenian legal system was first written down by Draco in about 621 BC: the death penalty was applied for a particularly wide range of crimes, though Solon later repealed Draco's code and published new laws, retaining only Draco's homicide statutes.

Parts of Ancient India and Nepal where Buddhism originated were also for long periods Buddhist, and whether as a result of the Buddhist, Jain or Hindu promotion of the principle of ahimsa ( harmlessness ) many Indians remain vegetarian.