The ancient artisan, with his innate ingenuity, would design and build a simple forge by digging a trench in the ground with a piston bellows to create the draft for his charcoal fire.

The ancient artisans soon discovered the drawbacks of copper for producing armaments.

To saunter through its Gothic Quarter, along the dark, narrow streets and past the ancient artisans' shops, is to be transported back to the Middle Ages.

They had found a classic chronicle carved in stone by an ancient artisan that had stood unseen by human eyes under the sea for thousands of years.

The pigments used on the bust have been matched to those used by ancient Egyptian artisans.

The patterns on more than a few ponchos and shirts were made doubly strong by ancient artisans when they used the same images twice, in contrasting color combinations.

Cleante could only assume that with their race's integrity the ancient artisans had continued their designs to the very top.

Scientists there have found a 23,000-year-old piece of curved mammoth tusk that some ancient artisan carved and polished into the aerodynamic shape of a boomerang.

Crafted in what is now New Mexico, this haunting study of sorrow, with deeply gouged eyes and a full mouth, is the work of an ancient artisan of the Southwest.

The fusionstone walls of the cell were solid and thick; Elemspur had been a monastery before the Cardassians took over, and the ancient artisans responsible for its construction had built it well.