Sentences with ancient
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A a - They believed ancient Greece and Rome were vital sources of learning.
- ...ancient Jewish tradition.
- Distance between wars ancient and present also presented itself.
- An ancient training manual for Roman athletes.
- The ancients knew more than we do about the heavens.
- ancient ruins
- Australian archaeologists have taken part in the discovery of at least 74 long- lost temples around the ancient city of Angkor.
- Thought to date back to the ancient Greeks, waffles are still enjoyed the world over.
- ‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War. […]’
- Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
- ancient history.
- ancient rocks; ancient trees.
- An ancient folk tale.