9 sentences with “recorded”

De Victu is the first food self-help book in recorded history.

Even though a camera recorded the theft, the thieves made off with Edvard Munch's coveted painting without anyone noticing.

We recorded on tapes the music from antediluvian records and played it over and over again at semi-clandestine parties in my hometown of Kazan.

Instead, Socrates' beliefs and arguments were recorded by his student Plato, who devoted them to prose despite sharing Socrates' disdain for the written word.

Egyptian scribes recorded everything from tax records, to mercantile transactions, to sacred prayers for the dead on the walls of the tombs of kings and nobles.

The Gospels were transmitted orally for decades before being recorded in their definitive versions; most scholars now date the written Gospels to approximately 90 CE (about sixty years after Jesus' death).

The concept of these different periods was created by Manetho, an Egyptian priest who, around 300 BCE, recorded the 'definitive' history of the ancient kings and created the very notion of the old, middle and new kingdoms.

In other words, because they used the same language and the same alphabet of symbols, and because they recorded the rituals and transactions of Egyptian society, scribes were a kind of cultural glue that kept things going from generation to generation.

They also often went to great lengths to take advantage of the precedent of Roman civilisation; for example, Clovis of the Franks insisted that Frankish laws be recorded in Latin, and eventually the Frankish language disappeared and was replaced by the earliest form of French, a Latin language.