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A group of five metallic elements which were well known to the ancients and which also have in common symbols that do not resemble the English words for them are lead (Pb), copper (Cu), mercury (Hg), silver (Ag), and gold (Au).
Torralba has perhaps the most beautiful taula of all — certain evidence that the ancients were masters of the art of stone construction.
The seating has been renovated so there is no fear of sitting on worn stone, but this is perhaps your greatest opportunity to view a performance as the ancients did.
An aside halfway through the piece likens FBI agents, scanning the Internet for hacker assaults and political extremists, to "ancients searching the skies for a sign."
These were known to the ancients as the Pillars of Hercules, and in ancient times marked the limits of the known world.