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As I studied the e-mail from Glenn Milne, I knew just how ancient the U-shaped structure [found a few kilometers away from the Indian coast] really might be - at least 11,000 years old. That's 6000 ye...

If the teachings of the Protestants in Europe gave birth to the Protestant ethics and the modern civilization, it becomes alarming that most of our charismatic teachings today mainly concentrate on in...

He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.

Nothing is more important than a great idea that influenced thedevelopment of civilization.

Now we know that man is more than two million years old,' exlaimed Heyerdahl, 'it would be very strange if our ancestors lived like primitive food collectors for all that time until suddenly they star...

If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great and vast machine.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Cultele memoriei de orice natură, indiferent dacă se prezintă ȋn veșminte religioase, civilizatoare sau politice, trebuie privite... cu neȋncredere și asta fără excepție: sub pretextul unei comemorări...

The rolling hills we traveled through were lined with rows of crisscrossed crops- apple and pear trees, vines of grapes, and maize- creating bafflingly precise geometries. In the forested areas, the b...

For more than half a century, [...] American archaeology was so riddled with pre-formed opinions about how the past look, and about the orderly, linear way in which civilizations evolve, that it rep...

We are used to things starting out small and simple and then progressing--evolving--to become ever more complex and sophisticated, so this is naturally what we expect to find on archaeological sites....