Whether or not Plato's tale of the lost continent of Atlantis is true, skeptics concede that the myth may have some foundation in a great tsunami of ancient times.

Gums were extracted from quince, psyllium ( fleawort ), flax, and locust ( carob ) seeds in ancient times.

In ancient times, there were various explanations for the name Aegean.

In ancient times, the sea was the birthplace of two ancient civilizations – the Minoans of Crete and the Mycenean Civilization of the Peloponnese.

Antimony compounds have been known since ancient times and were used for cosmetics ; metallic antimony was also known, but it was erroneously identified as lead.

Athena has been used numerous times as a symbol of a republic by different countries and appears on currency as she did on the ancient drachma of Athens.

Principles of acoustics were applied since ancient times: Roman theatre ( structure ) | Roman theatre in the city of Amman.

Ambergris is the waxy aromatic substance created in the intestines of sperm whales and was used in making perfumes both in ancient times as well as modern.

Margaret Fuller referred to Alcott as " a philosopher of the balmy times of ancient Greece — a man whom the worldlings of Boston hold in as much horror as the worldlings of Athens held Socrates.

As a tooth-gift in ancient times.

Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.

In many parts of the world, acropoleis became the nuclei of large cities of classical antiquity, such as ancient Rome, which in more recent times grew up on the surrounding lower ground, such as modern Rome.

None of the works ascribed to him in ancient times, if indeed they were written by him, have survived.

In ancient times, an ambush often might involve thousands of soldiers on a large scale, such as over a mountain pass.

One outstanding example from ancient times is the Battle of the Trebia river.

Sophocles and Euripides ( and in more modern times, Corneille ) made the story the subject of tragedies, and its incidents were represented in numerous ancient works of art.

Including an account of the most famous archers of ancient and modern times ; with some curious particulars in the life of Robert Fitz-Ooth Earl of Huntington, vulgarly called Robin Hood .... York: printed for E. Hargrove, bookseller, Knaresbro ' ( later editions: York, 1845 and facsimile reprint, London: Tabard Press, 1970 )

Assyria continued to exist as a geopolitical entity until the Arab-Islamic conquest in the mid 7th century AD, and Assyrian identity, personal names and both spoken and written evolutions of Mesopotamian Aramaic ( which still contain many Akkadian loan words ) have survived among the Assyrian people from ancient times to this day.

In ancient times Assyrians spoke a dialect of the Akkadian language, an eastern branch of the Semitic languages.

Doubts about the possibility of definite truth have been expressed since ancient times, for instance in the skepticism of Pyrrho.

* In the anime Wolf's Rain, ancient decaying domed cities from the times of the scientific breakthroughs shelter the remainder of humanity.

Alkaloid-containing plants have been used by humans since ancient times for therapeutic and recreational purposes.

Also, coca leaves have been used by South American Indians since ancient times.

" The ancient Chinese scientist Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) was the first person to write of the magnetic needle compass and that it improved the accuracy of navigation by employing the astronomical concept of true north ( Dream Pool Essays, AD 1088 ), and by the 12th century the Chinese were known to use the lodestone compass for navigation.

The ancient Greek view of the heavenly bodies on which their navigation was based was imported from Babylonia by the Ionian Greeks, who used it to become a seafaring nation of merchants and colonists during the Archaic period in Greece.

The astronomic model on which ancient Greek navigation was based, which is still in place today, was already extant in the time of Pytheas, the concept of the degrees only being missing.

The concept of the solstices was embedded in ancient Greek celestial navigation.

Until the 15th century, the Portuguese were limited to coastal cabotage navigation using barques and barinels ( ancient cargo vessels used in the Mediterranean ).

All navigation ends abruptly at Marcilly-sur-Seine, where the ancient Canal de la Haute-Seine used to allow vessels to continue all the way to Troyes.

As an example, when the Hōkūle ‘ a was built to be sailed to the South Pacific to prove the voyaging capabilities of the ancient Hawaiians, master navigator Mau Piailug from Satawal was brought to Hawai ' i to teach the Hawaiians navigation.

Besides the natural watercourses of the rivers, and the ancient but artificial broads, there is one more recent navigation canal, the lock-less Haddiscoe Cut which connects the Rivers Yare and Waveney whilst permitting boats to by-pass Breydon Water.

The ancient but natural transport route for Aylsham would have been the River Bure, but it was not open to substantial navigation.

Egypt's expanding interests in trade goods such as ebony, incense such as myrrh and frankincense, gold, copper and other useful metals inspired the ancient Egyptians to build suitable ships for navigation of the open sea.

Watkins believed that, in ancient times, when Britain was far more densely forested, the country was criss-crossed by a network of straight-line travel routes, with prominent features of the landscape being used as navigation points.

Roman navigation used sexillie quarter rudders which went in the Mediterranean through a long period of constant refinement and improvement, so that by Roman times ancient vessels reached extraordinary sizes.

The river was a toll-free navigation as far as Pallingham, by ancient royal charter, causing financial difficulties for the navigation company, which was obliged by act of parliament to maintain the river.

Initially, up to the 15th century, Europeans were limited to coastal cabotage navigation using the barge ( barca ) or the balinger ( barinel ), ancient cargo vessels used in the Mediterranean of around 50 to 200 tons.

" Both segments, peri-and-plous, were independently productive: the ancient Greek speaker understood the word in its literal sense ; however, it developed a few specialized meanings, one of which became a standard term in the ancient navigation of Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans.

Since the 1976 voyage to Tahiti and back, Hōkūle ‘ a has completed more voyages to destinations in Micronesia, Polynesia, Japan, Canada, and the United States, all using ancient wayfinding techniques of celestial navigation.

However, later readings have suggested it should be read as the statues of Arcules ( Hercules ), and that the inscription's reference is probably to the Pillars of Hercules, the non plus ultra of ancient navigation, and not Antillia.

Using an ancient sacred navigation record, they put Duncan and the two surviving mri, Niun and Melein, aboard a ship and sent them back to the lost homeworld of the mri.

The roro is a kind of traditional chant, usually about ancient legends and performed to give guidance during navigation and strength for mothers in labour.

A Han Dynasty ( 202 BC – 220 AD ) ladle-and-basin lodestone south-pointing compass, used by ancient Chinese geomancer s, but not for navigation.

They were even said to be from Japan or Korea, while others suggest a more complex migration that started in southeast Tibet, a migration to Thailand, Burma, or Japan, then a navigation of the Ayeyarwady River and Chindwin rivers, a crossing of the Patkoi range coming back west, and finally entering ancient India.