8 sentences with 'antiquity'
Example sentences and phrases with the word antiquity and other words derived from it.
• « The Eastern sages of antiquity created a method of combating disease based on observation of man's external and internal world. »
• « The sages of antiquity observed that people relieved their health problems by instinctively massaging or tapping the areas that hurt and that if they were also pricked or pressed with sharp objects, the discomfort would disappear. Little by little and based on repeated practices, the acupuncture points were located and their use was specified. »
• « There were certainly many other settlements in the Fertile Crescent, but because of their antiquity the remains of only a few - Jericho and Çatal Höyük most importantly - have survived to be studied by archaeologists. »
• « The city of Constantinople grew to become one of the great cities of late antiquity and the Middle Ages, fuelled by grain from Egypt and bringing enormous wealth through trade. »
• « Christian leaders of antiquity came to believe that, in general, magic was dangerous, generated by the devil's meddling, and that the spirits found in nature were almost certainly demons in disguise. »
• « Instruments and objects found on the five continents - whose millenary antiquity is not in question - allow us to ensure that we were not the first to set foot on Earth and that others have arrived, much earlier, at our present limits. »
• « This silk painting consists of a series of images in which humans and animals mingle with fantastic beings. Its importance lies not only in its antiquity, but also in the technique used and the religious and mythical significance of the motifs it depicts. »