The antiquity of the creed has been located by many Biblical scholars to less than a decade after Jesus ' death, originating from the Jerusalem apostolic community.

While sovereignty has roots in antiquity, in its present usage it is essentially modern.

Table salt, or sodium chloride, has been used since antiquity.

The practice of reading to oneself without vocalizing the text was less common in antiquity than it has since become.

Amber has been used since antiquity in the manufacture of jewelry and ornaments, and also in folk medicine.

In the absence of other evidence to show the origin of these curious relics of antiquity the occurrence of a name known as Basilidian on patristic authority has not unnaturally been taken as a sufficient mark of origin, and the early collectors and critics assumed this whole group to be the work of Gnostics.

As one of the brightest stars in the sky, Arcturus has been significant to observers since antiquity.

The technology of the burning glass has been known since antiquity.

The charioteer has lost many features, including his chariot and his left arm, but he stands as a tribute to athletic art of antiquity.

In the Percy Jackson & the Olympians book The Battle of the Labyrinth, Daedalus is the enigmatic Quintus ( Latin which means 5 or fifth ), and has preserved himself since antiquity by placing his animus, his life force, into an automaton, an idea pioneered by his nephew Perdix.

In antiquity, dragons were mostly envisaged as serpents, but since the Middle Ages, it has become common to depict them with legs, resembling a lizard.

" According to Easton's Bible Dictionary, " Paul's authorship was undisputed in antiquity and was probably written about the same time as the First Epistle to Timothy, with which it has many affinities.

In the 19th century Jacob Burckhardt viewed Eusebius as ' a liar ', the “ first thoroughly dishonest historian of antiquity .” Ramsay MacMullen in the 20th century regarded Eusebius's work as representative of early Christian historical accounts in which “ Hostile writings and discarded views were not recopied or passed on, or they were actively suppressed ..., matters discreditable to the faith were to be consigned to silence .” As a consequence this kind of methodology in MacMullens view has distorted modern attempts, ( e. g. Harnack, Nock, and Brady ), to describe how the Church grew in the early centuries.

The fresco technique has been employed since antiquity and is closely associated with Italian Renaissance painting.

Although Greek has undergone morphological and phonological changes comparable to those seen in other languages, there has been no time in its history since classical antiquity where its cultural, literary, and orthographic tradition was interrupted to such an extent that one can easily speak of a new language emerging.

The term Galenism has subsequently taken on both a positive and pejorative meaning as one that transformed medicine in late antiquity yet so dominated subsequent thinking as to stifle further progress.

The modern territory of Albania has no counterpart in antiquity, comprising parts of the Roman provinces of Dalmatia ( southern Illyricum ), Macedonia ( particularly Epirus Nova ), and Moesia Superior.

Records indicate pork has been a part of the Korean diet back to antiquity, similar to beef.

The name has an Indo-European origin ( from karra meaning " stone "), and in antiquity it was called " Carusardius " in Latin.

Known as " Ofioussa " ( having snakes ) and " Pityoussa " ( having pine trees ) in antiquity, during the medieval age the island was ruled by a number of external powers and has also been known as Scio ( Genoese ), Chio ( Italian ) and Sakız ( صاقيز — Ottoman Turkish ).

The subject was rarely seen in the large-scale sculpture of antiquity, although a representation of Leda in sculpture has been attributed in modern times to Timotheos ( compare illustration, below left ); small-scale sculptures survive showing both reclining and standing poses, in cameos and engraved gems, rings, and terracotta oil lamps.

It has been identified in medical writings from antiquity and was best characterized in the 19th Century.

According to Norman Geisler and William Nix, " The New Testament, then, has not only survived in more manuscripts than any other book from antiquity, but it has survived in a purer form than any other great book — a form that is 99. 5 % pure "

Because anthropology developed from so many different enterprises ( see History of Anthropology ), including but not limited to fossil-hunting, exploring, documentary film-making, paleontology, primatology, antiquity dealings and curatorship, philology, etymology, genetics, regional analysis, ethnology, history, philosophy, and religious studies, it is difficult to characterize the entire field in a brief article, although attempts to write histories of the entire field have been made.

Although not called as such, machines performing the role recognizable as artillery have been employed in warfare since antiquity.

In late antiquity, much of the town seems to have been destroyed by marauding invaders.

Artifacts such as bowls, rock carvings and sacred statues with breasts have been recorded from 15, 000 BC up to late antiquity all across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

There are very many methods of cooking, most of which have been known since antiquity.

Sodium carbonate (" soda " or " natron ") and potassium carbonate (" potash ") have been used since antiquity for cleaning and preservation, as well as for the manufacture of glass.

Languages have been compared since antiquity.

Another important source appears to have been Apuleius's The Golden Ass, one of the earliest known novels, a picaresque from late classical antiquity.

The only possible interpretatio graeca of high antiquity concerning Diana Nemorensis could have been the one based upon this ancient aspect of deity of light, master of wildlife.

The term dagger appears only in the Late Middle Ages, reflecting the fact that while the dagger had been known in antiquity, it had disappeared during the Early Middle Ages, replaced by the hewing knife or seax.

In antiquity, the Greek historian Herodotus mentioned that the world had been divided by unknown persons into three parts, Europe, Asia, and Libya ( Africa ), with the Nile and the River Phasis forming their boundaries — though he also states that some considered the River Don, rather than the Phasis, as the boundary between Europe and Asia.

Electrical phenomena have been studied since antiquity, though advances in the science were not made until the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Although the properties of sugar had been known in India in antiquity, it was not traded as a sweetener until industrial-scale production developed in the 6th century.

The voyages were made in very small ships, mostly the caravel, a light and maneuverable vessel that used the lateen sail which had been the prevailing rig in Christian Mediterranean navigation since late antiquity.

While empirical investigations of the natural world have been described since classical antiquity ( for example, by Thales, Aristotle, and others ), and scientific methods have been employed since the Middle Ages ( for example, by Ibn al-Haytham, Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī and Roger Bacon ), the dawn of modern science is generally traced back to the early modern period, during what is known as the Scientific Revolution that took place in 16th and 17th century Europe.

Since antiquity in various parts of the world, and since the 17th century in England, it had been known that citrus fruit had an antiscorbutic effect, when John Woodall ( 1570 – 1643 ), an English military surgeon of the British East India Company recommended them but their use did not become widespread.

The ancient sources located their original home in Jutland, in present-day Denmark, which was referred to as the Cimbrian peninsula throughout antiquity ( / Kimbrikē Chersonēsos ).

The hippodrome at Mount Lykaion, located in a valley below and to the north of the altar, is the only extant hippodrome from Greek antiquity, and is therefore crucial to our understanding of Greek athletic festivals.

Calabria (; in Calabrian dialects: Calabbria or Calavria, in antiquity known as Bruttium or-formerly-as Italia, is a region in southern Italy, south of Naples, located at the " toe " of the Italian Peninsula.

There is scant literary evidence for two more ship trackways by that name in antiquity, both located in Roman Egypt: The physician Oribasius ( c. 320 – 400 AD ) records two passages from his 1st century AD colleague Xenocrates, in which the latter casually refers to a diolkos close to the harbor of Alexandria which may have been located at the southern tip of the island of Pharos.

* Basilica Palladiana, centrally located in Vicenza's Piazza dei Signori, of which Palladio himself said that it might stand comparison with any similar work of antiquity ;

The origin of the name " Batman " is unclear: it might be a shortening of the name of the 1228 m tall Bati Raman mountain located nearby or refer to the unit of weight used in the Ottoman Empire since antiquity.

Two lavish burial sites located near the Cathedral date from this time of late antiquity.

The only usable harbor in Thessaly was located on the Gulf of Pagasae, as it was known in antiquity ( now the Gulf of Volos ).

The Mamertine Prison ( Italian Carcere Mamertino ), in antiquity the Tullianum, was a prison ( carcer ) located in the Forum Romanum in ancient Rome.

The 15th-century Tvrdoš monastery is located two kilometres south-west of Trebinje, including a church which dates back to the late antiquity.

The wall is located at a geographic narrowing between the Caspian Sea and the mountains of northeastern Iran, one of several Caspian Gates at the eastern part of a region known in antiquity as Hyrcania, on the nomadic route from the northern steppes to the Iranian heartland, and the wall is believed to have protected the

Moreover, a number of churches are located inside the castle of Himarë, which was initially built in classical antiquity, like the Church of Virgin Mary Kasopitra, Episkopi, which is built on the site of an ancient temple dedicated to Apollo, as well as the Aghioi Pantes church, in the entrance of the castle.

Close connections among the Kambojas ( Parama-Kambojas ), the Madras ( Bahlika-Madras or Uttaramadras ) and the Kurus ( Uttarakurus ), which tribes were all located around the Oxus in Central Asia in remote antiquity, suggests that the Kurus, the Kambojas and the Parśus were related.

In antiquity, it was an important city located in an oasis 215 km northeast of Damascus and 180 km southwest of the Euphrates at Deir ez-Zor.

In antiquity Gerakas constituted Attica's deme of Gargittos of the Aegides tribe that was located at the mesogea land, according to the administrative model of Cleisthenes.

These harbors are located on either side of the fortified hill and have extensively silted up since antiquity.

The area the monastery is located in first developed in antiquity.

The foregoing discussion suggests that in the remote antiquity ( Vedic age ), a settlement of the Madras was located in Bahlika ( Bactria )-- the western parts of the Oxus country.

The city of Khorog is located at the confluence of the Gunt with the Panj River ( the latter forming the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan and also being known as Amu Darya, or in antiquity the Oxus ).

The site is located between the island's two main cities in antiquity, Chalkis and Eretria.