Some sources mention the use of an abacus called a nepohualtzintzin in ancient Mayan culture.

Agrippina is regarded in ancient and modern historical sources as a Roman Matron with a reputation as a great woman, who had an excellent character and had outstanding Roman morals.

Agrippina the Younger has been described by both the ancient and modern sources as ‘ ruthless, ambitious, violent and domineering ’.

* Note that most ancient Roman sources are quite critical of Agrippina the Younger, because she was seen as stepping outside the conservative Roman ideals regarding the roles of women in society.

The ' far-away light ' () is a reference to St Elmo's Fire, an electrical discharge supposed by ancient Greek mariners to be an epiphany of the Dioscuri, but the meaning of the line was obscured by gaps in the papyrus until reconstructed by a modern scholar — such reconstructions are typical of the extant poetry ( see Scholars, fragments and sources below ).

His verses have not come down to us through a manuscript tradition-generations of scribes copying an author's collected works, such as delivered intact into the modern age four entire books of Pindar's odes-but haphazardly, in quotes from ancient scholars and commentators whose own works have chanced to survive, and in the tattered remnants of papyri uncovered from an ancient rubbish pile at Oxyrhynchus and other locations in Egypt: sources that modern scholars have studied and correlated exhaustively, adding little by little to the world's store of poetic fragments.

According to ancient sources, ( Plutarch Theseus, Pausanias ), Amazon tombs could be found frequently throughout what was once known as the ancient Greek world.

Aeolus and Enarete had many children, although the precise number and identities of these children vary from author to author in the ancient sources.

Unlike in Hindu and Jain sources, in ancient Buddhist texts ahimsa ( or its Pāli cognate ) is not used as a technical term.

The Baltic Sea, in ancient sources known as Mare Suebicum ( also known as Mare Germanicum ), is also known by the equivalents of " East Sea ", " West Sea ", or " Baltic Sea " in different languages:

As an example of efforts in recent times, Heidegger ( who himself drew on ancient Greek sources ) adopted German terms like Dasein to articulate the topic.

Some celebrate in a way as near as possible to how the ancient Gaels did, while others observe the holiday with rituals taken from sundry unrelated sources, Gaelic culture being only one of the sources used.

Neither of the main ancient sources for this period, Ammianus Marcellinus and Zosimus, mention the Bastarnae in their accounts of the 4th century, possibly implying the loss of their separate identity, presumably subsumed into the neighbouring Sarmatians or Goths.

The destruction of cities by foreign invaders, and its resulting catastrophic suffering, unfortunately, was very common in the ancient Near East and, therefore, we can observe examples of the lament form / genre concerning destroyed cities and temples from extra-biblical sources, particularly from early Sumerian Literature dating to the late third and early second millennia BC.

The name Barcelona comes from the ancient Iberian Phoenician Barkeno, attested in an ancient coin inscription in Iberian script as Barkeno in Levantine Iberian script, in Ancient Greek sources as, Barkinṓn ; and in Latin as Barcino, Barcilonum and Barceno.

By now the rebel forces were said to have numbered 230, 000, however, this number should be treated with scepticism — Dio's account is known only from a late epitome, and ancient sources commonly exaggerate enemy numbers.

The Bronze Age was a time of heavy use of metals and of developing trade networks ( See Tin sources and trade in ancient times ).

Among ancient sources, the poet Simonides, another near-contemporary, says the campaign force numbered 200, 000 ; while a later writer, the Roman Cornelius Nepos estimates 200, 000 infantry and 10, 000 cavalry, of which only 100, 000 fought in the battle, while the rest were loaded into the fleet that was rounding Cape Sounion ; Plutarch and Pausanias both independently give 300, 000, as does the Suda dictionary.

The ancient sources say the charge was adultery, and that Claudius was tricked into issuing the punishment.

This is exactly the accusation put forth by the ancient sources.

" 20: 9 It may be that the images of fire raining down are an ancient vision of modern weapons, others would say a supernatural intervention by God, yet others that they refer to events in history, and some would say they are symbolic of larger ideas and should not be interpreted literally.

Following the ancient Greeks ( Socrates and his successors ) and modern biologists, we say that human being is a species and that each individual person is a member of the species human being.

Some say he was transgender, and one ancient text states that he offered half the empire to the physician who could give him female genitalia.

We say for the other, that is, this edifice, the house of the seven lights of the earth the most ancient monument of Borsippa.

He did say that the ancient Persians called all the Scyths Σάκαι ( Sacae, Herodotus 7. 64 ).

Having established a system of vassal states in the East, Antiochus now adopts the ancient Achaemenid title of " great king ", and the Greeks, comparing him to Alexander the Great, surname him " the Great ", that is to say Antiochus III Megas.

Food historians say the Romans and ancient Greeks ate mixed greens and dressing.

Most peculiar is the vibrato ting yin ( literally " still vibrato "); ancient manuals state that the finger on the left hand that is pressing the string should only move or rock ever so slightly so as to alter the pitch minutely, and some manuals say that the finger should not move at all but let the pulse of the finger do the vibrato.

Estimates based on descriptions of the gardens in ancient sources say the Hanging Gardens would have required a minimum amount of 8, 200 gallons ( 37, 000 liters ) of water per day.

Most ancient historians say that he had been warned in a dream to beware of that day, as he had himself written in his memoirs.

Some Greek sources say that he was the son of Gaia and Oceanus ; however, ancient Greeks generally believed with Hesiod that Tethys and Oceanus were the parents of all three thousand river gods.

Further complicating the narratives, a number of ancient writers say the Amazon in question wasn ’ t Hippolyta at all but her sister Antiope, Melanippe, or Glauce.

:" Now they say that Penthesileia was the last of the Amazons to win distinction for bravery and that for the future the race diminished more and more and then lost all its strength ; consequently in later times, whenever any writers recount their prowess, men consider the ancient stories about the Amazons to be fictitious tales.

A new examination of skulls from the royal cemetery at Ur, discovered in Iraq almost a century ago, appears to support a more grisly interpretation of human sacrifices associated with elite burials in ancient Mesopotamia than had previously been recognized, say archaeologists.

The ancient critics say of Myron that while he succeeded admirably in giving life and motion to his figures, he did not succeed in rendering the emotions of the mind.

In an early account, Sophocles wrote that Tereus was turned into a big-beaked bird whom some say is a hawk while a number of retellings and other works ( including Aristophanes ' ancient comedy, The Birds ) hold that Tereus was instead changed into a hoopoe.

Some ancient sources say the novensiles are nine in number, leading to both ancient and modern identifications with other divine collectives numbering nine, such as the nine Etruscan deities empowered to wield thunder or with the Muses.

They say that ancient mummies are almost impossible to identify as a particular person without DNA.

Some say it is a corruption of the Isle of Ducks, and that it is so called in ancient records from the number of wild fowl inhabiting the marshes.

Shoreditch church ( dedicated to St Leonard ) is of ancient origin and features in the famous line ' when I grow rich say the bells of Shoreditch ', from the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons.

Some scholars say that imperialism and xenophobia could have influenced the gradual decline in the equivalence of God in the Western world with Shangdi and other ancient monotheisms amongst Bible translators: