In Athens, Evans bought as many seal-stones and engraved gems as he could find.

To calculate an enrichment value, the total number of rare, coding variants detected was divided by the average number of genotypable alleles for that cohort (see Methods and Table 1).

As our ship came within sight of and skirted the shores of the Persian Gulf, just before entering the Suez Canal at Suez, I impulsively thought of the poppy which is fructuously husbanded here, which are chaliced and flame to red, and the scarlet cups of which are filled with sunshine and bitterness.

I knew I worried them, but I felt fine, and although I told myself it was foolish, I kept the eagle stone with me at all times.