They did not extirpate every last Jew, but in a way accomplished something almost as historic: they displaced a millennium of vibrant European Jewish civilization with a grotesquely malformed version of it.

Their art and technology were not necessarily derived from the powerful cultures of temperate Central Mexico; on their own the Mayans evolved an innovative, vibrant civilization in the tropical lowlands.

Ganeshaiah argues that the Talakad phenomenon represents an ecological disaster unintentionally wrought on to a vibrant civilization at this place and in this sense the curse per se is an intelligently inserted story as an overlay.

While learned diggers are still uncovering its ruins, this show, said to be the first cultural collaboration between Jordan and the United States, offers a generous glimpse of Petra's vibrant civilization through art objects, architectural elements, photographs and film.

While Hoshi aspired to rule over an Empire, she preferred a vibrant, thriving civilization to the shattered remnants that surely awaited her if the war was allowed to continue.

Iranian-born grammarians, rhetoricians, scientists, philosophers, theologians, contributed to the intellectual vitality of this new and vibrant civilization alongside other Muslims from other nationalities.

Long before the rise of Rokugan, the Naga had a vast and vibrant civilization.

It was the culmination of nearly twenty years of resistance against an occupying force that sought to crush a vibrant, complex civilization and replace it with the laws, taxes and slavery of the Roman Empire.

FOUR sites of ancient Maya cities have been discovered in the mountains of southern Belize, an area previously thought by archeologists to contain few if any significant ruins of the vibrant pre-Columbian civilization, the National Geographic Society announced yesterday.

If, however, we are surrounded by a more lively, a more vibrant civilization, we will wither away by the mere force of the comparison; we will die of the realization of what we have become and of the potential we have wasted.