Most modern Pueblo peoples ( whether Keresans, Hopi, or Tanoans ) assert the ancient Pueblo did not " vanish ", as is commonly portrayed in media presentations or popular books, but migrated to areas in the southwest with more favorable rainfall and dependable streams.

Most agates occur as nodules in volcanic rocks or ancient lavas where they represent cavities originally produced by the disengagement of volatiles in the molten mass which were then filled, wholly or partially, by siliceous matter deposited in regular layers upon the walls.

" Most ancient writers considered him a highly successful leader in guerrilla warfare, alert and quick, yet cautious — a man, moreover, whose personal bravery was rarely questioned in his own time.

Most such peerages pass to heirs-male, but the ancient baronies created by writ, as well as some very old earldoms, pass instead to heirs-general ( by cognatic primogeniture ).

Most ancient naval battles were fought by fast ships using the battering ram to sink opposing fleets or steer close enough for boarding in hand-to-hand combat.

Most other anthropologists, however, oppose Wrangham, stating that archeological evidence suggests that cooking fires began in earnest only c. 250, 000 years ago, when ancient hearths, earth ovens, burnt animal bones, and flint appear across Europe and the Middle East.

Most frequently, classical elements refer to ancient beliefs inspired by natural observation of the phases of matter.

Most ancient sources categorize the Cimbri as a Germanic tribe, but some ancient authors include the Cimbri among the Celts.

Most occurrences in ancient literature revolve around the basis of the threat of Cerberus being overcome to allow a living being access to the underworld ; in the Aeneid Cerberus was lulled to sleep after being tricked into eating drugged honeycakes and Orpheus put the creature to sleep with his music.

Most ancient cultures have had conceptions of a flat Earth, including Greece until the classical period, the Bronze Age and Iron Age civilizations of the Near East until the Hellenistic period, India until the Gupta period ( early centuries AD ) and China until the 17th century.

Most of our knowledge of ancient Hebrew medicine during the 1st millennium BC comes from the Torah, i. e. the Five Books of Moses, which contain various health related laws and rituals, such as isolating infected people ( Leviticus 13: 45-46 ), washing after handling a dead body ( Numbers 19: 11-19 ) and burying excrement away from camp ( Deuteronomy 23: 12-13 ).

Most biblical scholars and historians of ancient Israel today view the patriarchical narratives, including the life of Jacob, as late ( 6th and 5th centuries BCE ) literary compositions that have ideological and theological purposes but are unreliable for historical reconstruction of the presettlement period of Israel ’ s past.

Most notable in the ancient sport was a man called Chionis, who in the 656BC Olympics staged a jump of 7. 05 metres ( 23 feet and 1. 7 inches ).

Most of our knowledge of ancient Hebrew medicine during the 1st millennium BC comes from the Torah, i. e. the Five Books of Moses, which contain various health related laws and rituals.

Most achondrites are also ancient rocks, and are thought to represent crustal material of asteroids.

Most South American Native peoples were largely panentheistic as well ( as were ancient South East Asian and African cultures ).

Most cultures, however, recognize the ability of individuals to withhold certain parts of their personal information from wider society-a figleaf over the genitals being an ancient example.

Most ancient scientists were polymaths by today's standards.

Most of modern Tajikstan had formed parts of ancient Kamboja and Parama Kamboja kingdoms, which find references in the ancient Indian epics like the Mahabharata.

Most of the islands have a bedrock formed from ancient metamorphic rocks and the climate is mild and oceanic.

Most of the ancient swamp has been reclaimed for agriculture and urban areas.

Most notably Cambodia which has the largest ancient Hindu temple complex in the world called Angkor Wat, which is also a UNESCO world heritage site.

Most famous among them are the chatur-amnaya mathas established by Adi Shankara which formed the nodal centres of under whose guidance the ancient Order of Vedantic monks were re-organised under ten names Dashanami Sampradaya, Ashta matha ( Eight monasteries ) of Udupi founded by Madhvacharya ( Madhwa acharya ) a dwaitha philosopher.

Most of the still extant works of Aristotle, as well as a number of the original Greek commentaries, were translated into Arabic and studied by Muslim philosophers, scientists and scholars.

Most of the brighter stars were assigned their first systematic names by the German astronomer Johann Bayer in 1603, in his star atlas Uranometria ( named after Urania, the Greek Muse of Astronomy, along with Uranus, the Greek god of the sky and heavens ).

Most of the documents, chiefly the minutes of the sessions, were written in Greek ; others, e. g. the imperial letters, were issued in both languages ; others, again, e. g. the papal letters, were written in Latin.

Most of the manuscripts were, however, late Greek manuscripts of the Byzantine textual family and Erasmus used the oldest manuscript the least because " he was afraid of its supposedly erratic text.

Most of these works are considerably later compositions in Greek.

Most scientific treatises of classical antiquity ( in Greek ) were unavailable, leaving only simplified summaries and compilations.

Most modern scholars agree that the actual Greek fire was based on petroleum, either crude or refined ; comparable to modern napalm.

Most versions of Principia Discordia actually spell it as καλλιχτι, but this is definitely incorrect ; in the afterword of the 1979 Loompanics edition of Principia, Gregory Hill says that was because on the IBM typewriter he used, not all Greek letters coincided with Latin ones, and he didn't know enough of the letters to spot the mistake.

Most of the large Roman baths were also cultural centres, built from the start with a library, a two room arrangement with one room for Greek and one for Latin texts.

Most of the work accomplished in Alfonso ’ s scriptorium consisted of translations into the Castilian vernacular from Arabic translations of Greek texts or classical Jewish medicinal texts.

Most commentators assume that this referred to their " slippery " effect on meter in classical Greek verse when they occur as the second member of a consonant cluster.

Most scholars understand Luke's works ( Luke-Acts ) in the tradition of Greek historiography.

Most of these translations relied ( though not always exclusively ) upon one of the printed editions of the Greek New Testament edited by Erasmus, a form of this Greek text emerged as the standard and is known as the Textus Receptus.

Most information we have on the myths of Osiris is derived from allusions contained in the Pyramid Texts at the end of the Fifth Dynasty, later New Kingdom source documents such as the Shabaka Stone and the Contending of Horus and Seth, and much later, in narrative style from the writings of Greek authors including Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus.

Most English words beginning with P are of foreign origin, primarily French, Latin, Greek, and Slavic.

Most of the Greek republics were annexed to the Macedonian Empire of Alexander.

Most valuable of all from a text-critical perspective is the Vulgate text of the Apocalypse, a book where there is no clear majority text in the surviving Greek witnesses.

* 677: Most of the Arab fleet is destroyed by Greek fire ; the Persian crown prince flees to the T ' ang court.

Most of the Bulgarian and Greek population are Christians, while most of the Turkish inhabitants of Thrace are Muslims.

Most crucifixes portray Jesus on a Latin cross, rather than any other shape, such as a Tau cross or a Greek cross.

Most of the feuding Greek city-states were, in some scholars ' opinions, united under the banner of Philip's and Alexander the Great's pan-Hellenic ideals, though others might generally opt, rather, for an explanation of " Macedonian conquest for the sake of conquest " or at least conquest for the sake of riches, glory and power and view the " ideal " as useful propaganda directed towards the city-states.

Most of their remains were buried at sea near the island of Vido, a small island at the mouth of Corfu port, and a monument of thanks to the Greek nation has been erected at Vido by the grateful Serbs ; consequently, the waters around Vido Island are known by the Serbian people as the Blue Graveyard ( in Serbian, Плава Гробница, Plava Grobnica ), after a poem written by Milutin Bojić following World War I.

They were refugees from former Byzantine or Venetian territories that were occupied by the Ottomans in the late 15th and 16th c. The first Greek community was established in Ancona early in the 16th c. Natalucci, the 17th c. historian of the city, notes the existence of 200 Greek families in Ancona at the opening of the 16th c. Most of them came from northwestern Greece, i. e. the Ionian islands and Epirus.