9 sentences with “preserved”

The mummy discovered in Siberia was preserved by the permafrost for centuries.

The paleontologist discovered a dinosaur fossil so well preserved that it revealed new details about the extinct species.

During that period the Islamic empires created and preserved all the important scholarship worthy of the name.

First, Egypt's dry climate ensured that records preserved on papyrus had a good chance of surviving as they were unlikely to rot.

Its people believed that their empire and their emperor were preserved by God himself as the rightful seat of the Christian religion.

I had read that when both nerve bands are preserved, 20 percent of men over 50 are impotent; and when only one is saved, it rises to 40 percent.

In the absence of instruction, literature, philosophy and engineering all but disappeared, preserved only in monasteries and in the Eastern Empire.

As noted in the previous chapter, it was Arab scholarship that preserved the learning of the ancient Greeks, and Arab scholars were responsible for numerous technological and scientific discoveries as well.

That legacy was reflected in the learning preserved by the Church. For example, although Latin faded as a spoken language, almost disappearing around the eighth century even in Italy, the Bible and written communication among educated elites remained in Latin.