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.

In ancient times, navigation through the sea was easier than travelling across the rough terrain of the Greek mainland ( and to some extent the coastal areas of Anatolia ).

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.

In Gylfi's delusion, ancient Asgard was ruled by the senior god, the all-father, who had twelve names.

Afterwards, the earth rises again from the sea, is fairer than before, and where Asgard used to be a remnant of the Æsir gather, some coming up from Hel, and talk and play chess all day with the golden chessmen of the ancient Æsir, which they find in the grass ( Section 58 ).

# That it was the true Antediluvian world ; the Garden of Eden ; the Gardens of Hesperides ; the Elysian Fields ; the Gardens of Alcinous ; the Mesomphalos, the Olympos ; the Asgard of the traditions of the ancient nations ; representing a universal memory of a great land, where early mankind dwelt for ages in peace and happiness.

The Angel of Moroni visited the boy, Joseph Smith, after living out his mortal life in ancient America.

There is reference on a Greek papyrus from 163 BCE to the procedure being conducted on girls in Memphis, the ancient Egyptian capital, and Strabo ( c. 64 BCE – c. 23 CE ), the Greek geographer, reported it when he visited Egypt in 25 BCE.

The ancient world never recovered from the blow inflected upon it by the plague which visited it in the reign of M.

* Chichen Itza – This ancient place of pilgrimage is still the most visited Maya ruin.

The two visited the mountains of Scotland together, and found in different locations clear evidence of ancient glacial action.

3 km south of Megara is a small community called Pachi, which is famous for its fish tavernas and is visited by people from all over ancient Greece.

The ' gods ' of most polytheistic pantheons are actually powerful, immortal human-like races from other dimensions who visited Earth in ancient times, and became the basis of many legends.

The wanderings of Odysseus as told to the Phaeacians, and the location of the Phaeacians ' own island of Scheria, pose more fundamental problems, if geography is to be applied: scholars, both ancient and modern, are divided as to whether or not any of the places visited by Odysseus ( after Ismaros and before his return to Ithaca ) are real.

In 1625, the site was visited by Pietro della Valle, who recorded the presence of ancient bricks stamped with strange symbols, cemented together with bitumen, as well as inscribed pieces of black marble that appeared to be seals.

After Taylor's time the site was visited by numerous travelers, almost all of whom have found ancient Babylonian remains, inscribed stones and the like, lying upon the surface.

The young Henry accompanied King Richard to Ireland, and while in the royal service, he visited Trim Castle in County Meath, the ancient meeting place of the Irish Parliament.

These trips became the pivotal moment of his education ; he visited Chartres, the Parthenon, and many other ancient monuments, becoming increasingly fascinated with architecture.

The legend that Jesus himself visited Britain is referred to in " And did those feet in ancient time ", by William Blake in 1804, and in the hymn " Jerusalem ", with music written by C. Hubert H. Parry in 1916.

No series of semisses are attested for these two mints, probably because the semisses were typically minted by the mint of Rome and this mint was not active under Majorian, who never visited the ancient capital of his Empire during his four years of rule.

The Stargate franchise is based on this concept, where an alien race visited Earth and took on the mantle of ancient gods with the intent of capturing different groups of humans and sending them elsewhere to use as slave labor or corporal hosts.

The main ancient source on Messene is the Guide to Greece of Pausanias, who visited there between 155 and 160 AD.

Apparently it was in this period ( 1402 – 1404 ) that Brunelleschi and his friend Donatello visited Rome to study the ancient Roman ruins.

Much of what is known about the ancient temple today comes from the writings of Herodotus, who visited the site at the time of the first Persian invasion, long after the fall of the New Kingdom.

Claudius Buchanan, an Anglican priest, visited the ancient Church of St. Thomas in India.

Latrobe also visited Rome, where he was impressed by the Roman Pantheon and other ancient structures with Greek influence.

In September 1270 he visited the village Miholjanec, where was discovered an unknown ancient castle and a sword, this sword he got as a gift, in which he and his priests acknowledged the " Holy War Sword of the Scythians " and he saw that he was determined to master the world.

The Americans were led to the ruins by the local Lacandon Maya who still visited the site to pray in the ancient temples.

Some three years later Empress Carlota of Mexico visited Uxmal ; in preparation for her visit local authorities had some statues and architectural elements depicting phallic themes removed from the ancient façades.

He studied theology, ancient languages, and philosophy at the university of Jena, became Privatdozent at the University of Wittenberg in 1716, and in 1720-21 visited the Netherlands and England.

It was at the ancient Temple Church that his brilliant playing upon the organ and harpsichord attracted the attention of many fine musicians including Handel who regularly visited the church to hear him.