Ancient art was largely, but not entirely, based on the nine great ancient civilizations: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece, China, Rome, India, the Celtic peoples, and Maya.

The Egyptians, Persians and other civilizations mostly used columns for the practical purpose of holding up the roof inside a building, preferring outside walls to be decorated with reliefs or painting, but the Ancient Greeks, followed by the Romans, loved to use them on the outside as well, and the extensive use of columns on the interior and exterior of buildings is one of the most characteristic features of classical architecture, in buildings like the Parthenon.

This may lead to more of a focus on etiquette than on ethics as understood in Western civilization, leading some in Western civilizations to question why the word ethos was adapted from Ancient Greek with such vast differences in cultural norms.

Ancient Greeks were among the first civilizations to use symbols consistently in order to identify a warrior, clan or a state.

Ancient Mexico can be said to have produced five major civilizations: the Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec, and Aztec.

Existing in various forms, the quatrain appears in poems from the poetic traditions of various ancient civilizations including Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and China ; and, continues into the 21st century, where it is seen in works published in many languages.

Slavery was known in almost every ancient civilization, and society, including Sumer, Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, the Akkadian Empire, Assyria, Ancient India, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, the Islamic Caliphate, the Hebrews in Palestine, and the pre-Columbian civilizations of the Americas.

Riegl traced formalistic continuity and development in decorative plant forms from Ancient Egyptian art and other ancient Near Eastern civilizations through the classical world to the Islamic arabesque ; while the Kunstwollen has few followers today, his basic analysis of the development of forms has been confirmed and refined by the wider corpus of examples known today.

De Camp enjoyed debunking doubtful history and pseudoscientific claims of the supernatural, and explaining how ancient civilizations produced structures and architecture thought by some to be beyond the technologies of their time, such as the Pyramids of Ancient Egypt.

The Indus Valley is one of the world's earliest urban civilizations, along with its contemporaries, Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt.

Ancient civilizations have served ice for cold foods for thousands of years.

Ancient Egypt was among the earliest civilizations.

True arches, as opposed to corbel arches, were known by a number of civilizations in the Ancient Near East, the Levant, and Mexico, but their use was infrequent and mostly confined to underground structures such as drains where the problem of lateral thrust is greatly diminished.

The great traditions in art have a foundation in the art of one of the ancient civilizations, such as Ancient Japan, Greece and Rome, China, India, Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica.

Ancient Vietnam was home to some of the world's earliest civilizations and societies-making them one of the world's first people who practiced agriculture.

Eventually, literary Attic ( and the classic texts written in it ) came to be widely studied far beyond its original homeland, first in the Classical civilizations of the Mediterranean ( Ancient Rome and the Hellenistic world ), and later in the Muslim world, Europe, and wherever European civilization spread to other parts of the world.

Ancient civilizations used leather for waterskins, bags, harnesses, boats, armour, quivers, scabbards, boots and sandals.

Ancient Sumerian, Egyptian, and Chinese civilizations began to use such symbols over, developing them into logographic writing systems.

While the practice of mathematics previously developed in other civilizations, the special interests for its theoretical and foundational aspects really started with Ancient Greeks.

People purchasing goods and consuming materials in excess of their basic needs is as old as the first civilizations ( e. g. Ancient Egypt, Babylon and Ancient Rome ).

Beginning around the 3rd century BC, it took two centuries to become a dominant literature of Ancient Rome, with many educated Romans still reading and writing in Ancient Greek, as late as Marcus Aurelius ( 121 – 180 AD ).

It was 20 years, however, before the decipherment of the Egyptian texts was announced by Jean-François Champollion in Paris in 1822 ; it took longer still before scholars were able to read other Ancient Egyptian inscriptions and literature confidently.

Fleming took the ideas supplied by Florence and converted them into what would become the " Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine ( A. A. O. N. M. S .)".

Philip José Farmer took up the theme from the Tarzan books and wrote two books of his own, taking place in Opar at the height of its glory thousands of years ago: Hadon of Ancient Opar and Flight to Opar.

Ancient texts confirm that city-wide development took place regularly.

In 1913 the Ancient Monuments Consolidation and Amendment Act was passed by Parliament and Pembroke College took the opportunity to donate Framlingham to the Commissioner of Works.

In the same year he brought out his History of Ancient Rome and took a very active part in the first Oxford University Commission.

* Ancient Greek lambánō ( also with-an-suffix ) ' I take ' — aorist élǎbon ' I took '

Major construction work in the Precinct of Amun-Re took place during the Eighteenth dynasty when Thebes became the capital of the unified Ancient Egypt.

Islam took over much of the traditional glass-producing territory of Sassanian and Ancient Roman glass, and since figurative decoration played a small part in pre-Islamic glass, the change in style is not abrupt, except that the whole area initially formed a political whole, and, for example, Persian innovations were now almost immediately taken up in Egypt.

In his Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning ( 1694, and again 1697 ) he took the part of the moderns, although in a fair and judicial spirit.

The Ancient Greek version, according to the translator, is the longest text written in Ancient Greek since the novels of Heliodorus of Emesa in the 3rd century AD, and took about a year to complete.

Norinaga took the occasion to ask Mabuchi to supervise his annotations of the Kojiki ( Records of Ancient Matters ).

Ancient can be considered as a historical black metal act by all standards, whose path took a different course upon their relocation around the world and subsequent exit from the local Norwegian scene.

In Ancient Rome the young male body remained a focus of male sexual attention, but relationships were between older free men and slaves or freed youths who took the receptive role in sex.

Although there is more evidence in the form of texts and wall reliefs for this battle than for any other battle in the Ancient Near East, almost all of it is from an Egyptian perspective, and indeed the first scholarly report on the battle, by James Henry Breasted in 1903, took the Egyptian evidence literally and assumed a great Egyptian victory.

The naval Battle of Cynossema ( Ancient Greek: ) took place in 411 BC during the Peloponnesian War.

Ancient Romans quarried the marble, loaded it onto ships at the port of Luni and took it to Rome.

In the Ancient Greek, the indicative aorist is one of the two main forms used in telling a story ; it is used for undivided events, such as the individual steps in a continuous process ( narrative aorist ); it is also used for events that took place before the story itself ( past-within-past ).

Ancient rulers in many parts of the world took regnal names or throne names which were different from their personal name.

In Ancient Egypt, Pharaohs took a number of names-the praenomen, was the most commonly used, on occasion in conjunction with their personal name.

The naumachia ( in Latin naumachia, from the Ancient Greek ναυμαχία / naumachía, literally " naval combat ") in the Ancient Roman world referred to both the re-enactment of naval battles and the basin ( or more broadly, the complex ) in which this took place.