eighth-century

The virulence of smallpox brought about the first attempts at inoculation, which medical historians estimate occurred more than two thousand years ago in the Far East, although the earliest known records are from eighth-century India.

The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

The virulence of smallpox brought about the first attempts at inoculation, which medical historians estimate occurred more than two thousand years ago in the Far East, although the earliest known records are from eighth-century India.

The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

In the meantime, only two things are certain: As unusual as our man is among burial figures, he is authentic according to thermoluminescence tests; and whatever he represented to eighth-century Chinese, to 21st-century scholars he is a riveting work of art.

A Mysterious Stranger in China Lee Lawrence 2011

Cumbersome as this title may be, the new galleries are splendid, elegantly installed, lucidly organized and full of spectacular objects from the eighth-century dawn of Islam to the 19th century—manuscript pages, pottery, carpets, armor, tile, metal work—that make vivid not just a religion, but an entire culture.

Museums Reveal Degas's Nudes and Islam's Splendor Karen Wilkin 2011

Abu Nuwas Street was named after an eighth-century poet.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

The virulence of smallpox brought about the first attempts at inoculation, which medical historians estimate occurred more than two thousand years ago in the Far East, although the earliest known records are from eighth-century India.

The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

Legend links the name "Lucerne" from the Latin lucerna, meaning "lamp" with an angel who, with light streaming from his fingertips, indicated to eighth-century Benedictine monks the site on which they should build the city's first chapel.

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011

Legend links the name "Lucerne" from the Latin lucerna, meaning "lamp" with an angel who, with light streaming from his fingertips, indicated to eighth-century Benedictine monks the site on which they should build the city's first chapel.

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011

As the middle volume of a planned trilogy set in eighth-century Britain, this takes its shape from the whole: It can stand on its own, but it mostly enlarges the world of the first volume.

The Land of the Silver Apples by Nancy Farmer: Book summary 2010

Abu Nuwas Street was named after an eighth-century poet.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011