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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.
In one legend Quetzalcoatl is sent to the underground to get the bones of the ancients.
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."
One alternate existence, the ideal state, was considered by the ancients (e.g.