In Ancient India, vrata played a significant role in the life of individuals, and it continues to be practiced in modern times as well by a number of Hindus.

In 1915, he earned his doctorate from the University of Calcutta on the subject of The Positive Sciences of the Ancient Hindus.

* Positive Sciences of the Ancient Hindus ( 1915 )

Besides the works mentioned St. John was also the author of Journal of a Residence in Normandy ( 1830 ); Lives of Celebrated Travellers ( 1830 ); Anatomy of Society ( 1831 ); History, Manners and Customs of the Hindus ( 1831 ); Margaret Ravenscroft, or Second Love ( 3 vols., 1835 ); The Hellenes, or Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece ( 1842 ); Sir Cosmo Digby, a novel ( 1844 ); Views in the Eastern Archipelago ( 1847 ); There and Back Again in Search of Beauty ( 1853 ); The Nemesis of Power ( 1854 ); Philosophy at the Foot of the Cross ( 1854 ); The Preaching of Christ ( 1855 ); The Ring and the Veil, a novel ( 1856 ); Life of Louis Napoleon ( 1857 ); History of the Four Conquests of England ( 1862 ); and Weighed in the Balance, a novel ( 1864 ).

Ancient repression was politically motivated and Jews were treated no differently than any other ethnic group would have been.

The first six books treated the mythic history of the non-Hellenic and Hellenic tribes to the destruction of Troy and are geographical in theme, and describe the history and culture of Ancient Egypt ( book I ), of Mesopotamia, India, Scythia, and Arabia ( II ), of North Africa ( III ), and of Greece and Europe ( IV – VI ).

Major powers, such as Ancient Rome and the British who had colonial vassals, would especially receive many such political hostages, often offspring of the elite, even princes or princesses who were generally treated according to their rank and put to a subtle long-term use where they would be given an elitist education or possibly even a religious conversion.

This was especially true of peoples who treated cavalry as the basic arm of their military, and indeed, the backbone of the Ancient Persian military, such as that of the Medes or the successive Persian dynasties that followed them, was the horse.

Ancient Greek physicians treated diseases, including epilepsy, by altering their patients ' diet.

Ancient writers treated Troilus as the epitome of a dead child mourned by his parents.

Ancient sources agree that after Astyages was taken by Cyrus he was treated with clemency, though the accounts differ.

Even the more frightening Gothic poems of Coleridge, another famous poet of the time, argue for a kind treatment of nature that is only cruel if treated cruelly, as in " Rime of the Ancient Mariner ", unlike Byron's sun, which goes out with no human mistreatment mentioned at all.

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.

These thinkers blended Aristotelian philosophy with Christianity, bringing the thought of Ancient Greece into the Middle Ages.

The connection with Dorians and their initiation festival apellai is reinforced by the month Apellaios in northwest Greek calendars, but it can explain only the Doric type of the name, which is connected with the Ancient Macedonian word " pella " ( Pella ), stone.

In Ancient Egypt, Aquarius was associated with the annual flood of the Nile ; the banks were said to flood when Aquarius put his jar into the river, beginning spring.

Beginning with the earliest explorations and excavations, researchers wrote that the Ancient Puebloans are ancestors of contemporary Pueblo peoples.

It is said to have parallels with that of the Ancient Greek sophists or dialecticians.

The Greeks further identified the Ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor with Aphrodite.

" The Covered Hall ") This abode is somewhat like Hades from Ancient Greek religion: there, something not unlike the Asphodel Meadows can be found, and people who have neither excelled in that which is good nor excelled in that which is bad can expect to go there after they die and be reunited with their loved ones.

It has recently been suggested that the regional decline at the end of the Akkadian period ( and First Intermediary Period of the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom ) was associated with rapidly increasing aridity, and failing rainfall in the region of the Ancient Near East, caused by a global centennial-scale drought.

There may also be a connection with the Roman god of war Mars, via hypothetical Proto-Indo-European * M ̥ rēs ; compare Ancient Greek μάρναμαι ( marnamai ), " to fight, to battle ", or Punjabi maarna ( to kill, to hit ).

The building was burned and looted, along with the Ancient Temple and practically everything else on the rock.

The covered ark with golden staves carried by the priesthood ( Ancient Israel ) | priests, and seven priests with rams ' horns, at the siege of Jericho, in an eighteenth-century artist's depiction. The biblical account relates that during the Israelites ' exodus from Egypt, the Ark was carried by the priests some 2, 000 cubits in advance of the people and their army, or host.

* Hancock, Graham, Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind.

Ancient Nubia shared many aspects of its mythology with ancient Egypt and there is debate about the original source of some religious concepts that the two cultures share and, whether the assimilation was from Nubia to Egypt, the reverse, or through continuing exchanges.

" Mount " Megiddo is a Tell on which ancient forts were built to guard the main highway, the Via Maris, which connected Ancient Egypt with Mesopotamia.

They are followed by a further wicked king, or " little horn ", who subdues three of the ten ( 7: 24 ), speaks against the Most High, wages war against the saints, and attempts to change the set times and laws ( 7: 25 ); after ' a time and times and half a time ', this king is judged and stripped of his kingdom by an " Ancient of Days " and his heavenly court ( 7: 26 ); next, " one like a son of man " approaches the Ancient of Days and is invested with worldwide dominion ; moreover, his everlasting reign over all kings and kingdoms is shared with " the people of the Most High " ( 7: 27 )

The story of Jonah is set against the background of Ancient Israel in the 8th-7th centuries BC but deals with the religious and social issues of the late 6th-4th centuries BC, coinciding with the views of latter chapters of the book of Isaiah ( Third Isaiah ), where Israel is given a prominent place in the expansion of God's kingdom to the Gentiles.

The Ancient Near Eastern collection also had its beginnings in 1825 with the purchase of Assyrian and Babylonian antiquities from the widow of Claudius James Rich.

Ancient instruments with gourd wind chambers, varying numbers of pipes, with bamboo or metal reeds have been discovered in archaeological finds at the tomb of the Marquis Yi of Zeng ( c. 433 BC ) in present-day Hubei province, and the Han tombs at Mawangdui ( c. 2nd century BC ) in Hunan province.

The Ancient Egyptians used wooden splints made of bark wrapped in linen.

200 AD ) was a Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek commentators on the writings of Aristotle.

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.

Ancient wood cuts and writings have placed them in existence as a breed by 273 BC.

The terminology changed in the 15th century as the renewed interest in the writings of Ancient Greece and Rome caused writers to prefer using classical terminology.

Ancient references to the dilemma are found in the writings of classical philosophers.

They are first mentioned in the writings of the Ancient Greeks, in Herodotus ( Histories Book IV XCIII: " the noblest as well as the most just of all the Thracian tribes ") and Thucydides ( Peloponnesian Wars, Book II: " border on the Scythians and are armed in the same manner, being all mounted archers ").

Students learning Ancient Greek today usually start with the Attic dialect, proceeding, depending on their interest, to the koine of the New Testament and other early Christian writings, or Homeric Greek to read the works of Homer and Hesiod, or Ionic Greek to read the histories of Herodotus and the medical texts of Hippocrates.

Ancient Egyptian literature was not included in early studies of the history of literature because the writings of Ancient Egypt were not translated into European languages until the 19th century when the Rosetta stone was deciphered.

Ancient writings can be attributed to the Greek geographer Strabo's Geographika compiled almost 2000 years ago.

Ancient texts give fundamental rules of Indian music but the modern writings of Omkarnath Thakur, S. N. Ratanjankar, Lalit Kishore Singh, Lalmani Misra, Acharya Brahaspati, Thakur Jaidev Singh, R. C. Mehta, Premlata Sharma, Subhadra Choudhary, Indrani Chakravarty, Ashok Ranade, Aban E. Mistry, and contemporary ones of Pushpa Basu, Prabha Atre, Ragini Trivedi, Ravi Sharma, Swatantra Sharma, Saubhagyavardhan Brahaspati, Suneera Kasliwal, and the like have given a rigorous basis to the Indian music system.

* Inscription Rock in South Sinai, a large rock with carvings and writings ranging from Nabatean to Latin, Ancient Greek and Crusder eras located a few miles from the Ain Hudra Oasis.

In view of Manetho's anti-Jewish writings, antisemitism may have originated in Egypt and been spread by " the Greek retelling of Ancient Egyptian prejudices ".

Megiddo is mentioned in Ancient Egyptian writings because one of Egypt's mighty kings, Thutmose III, waged war upon the city in 1478 BC.

There are also many examples that are in keeping with what the Ancients and associated races intended – the writings on the stairs in the gate-room on Atlantis translate into a sort of greeting for travelers ; Puddle Jumper consoles include instructions on how to use the ship ; the Ancient wall in describes the use of the Ancient object hidden behind, and the responsibilities that go with it.

Weber examined the economic, social and political development of Roman society through the analysis of Roman writings on agriculture, the methods of land surveying and the terms used to designate the land units in Ancient Rome.

* In Ancient Hebrew writings the word was Yāvān ( and still is, in modern Israeli Hebrew-יוון )

These successive appearances of " emissarie of Truth " are according to the Blavatsky writings part of the unceasing oversight of Earth and of its inhabitants by a physically hidden Spiritual Hierarchy, called Masters of the Ancient Wisdom.

The word is found in the writings of Ancient Greece, especially that of Plato in ethical discussions of the dialogue Charmides where it refers to the avoidance of excess in daily life.

Old Novgorod dialect ( Russian: древненовгородский диалект, dryevnyenovgorodsky dialekt ; also translated as Old Novgorodian or Ancient Novgorod dialect ) is a term introduced by Andrey Zaliznyak to describe the astonishingly diverse linguistic features of the Old East Slavic birch bark writings (" berestyanaya gramota ") from the 11th to 15th centuries excavated in Novgorod and its surroundings.

Her most recent work of nonfiction, The Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples ( 2008 ) is a collection of writings on Naples, Italy, co-authored by her late husband, Francis Steegmuller.

Lancelyn Green became known primarily for his writings for children, particularly his retellings of the myths of Greece ( Tales of the Greek Heroes and The Tale of Troy ) and Egypt ( Tales of Ancient Egypt ), as well the Norse mythology ( The Saga of Asgard, later renamed Myths of the Norsemen ) and the stories of King Arthur ( King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table ) and Robin Hood ( The Adventures of Robin Hood ).

In her writings she aimed at showing how different spiritual systems share a common source, and therefore refers to Vedantic, Buddhist, Samkhyan, Tantric, Neoplatonic, Ancient Egyptian, Kabbalistic, and Occult systems.