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ancient

Very old, usually hundreds or thousands or millions of years old. He studied the ancient world.

ancient

A small flag or ensign.

ancient

belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire ancient history ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians ancient Greece very old an ancient mariner a person who lived in ancient times a very old person

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Ancient customs are dying out quickly today.
There are many ancient customs in Japan.
The cuneiform alphabet invented by the Sumerians was used by many languages in the ancient Near East.
Her hobby was to collect ancient coins.
This is an ancient Chinese custom.
Ancient people worshipped many gods and goddesses.
Her hobby is to collect ancient coins.
His hobby was collecting ancient coins.
We must try to preserve the remains of ancient civilizations.
The Romans tried to civilize the ancient Britons.
Rome has a lot of ancient buildings.
It is very difficult to handle the bola, but the ancient Incas were very good at it.
The exhibition offers profound insights into ancient civilization.
The myth offers insights into the ancient civilization.
This is an ancient law.
We can get a glimpse of the lifestyle of ancient people from this wall painting.
This custom dates from ancient times.
That castle was built in ancient times.
Achilles was an ancient Greek hero.
In ancient times, plagues killed many people.
I wish I could see the ancient world.
New facts about ancient China have recently come to light.
Rome is famous for its ancient architecture.
The pyramids were built in ancient times.
The ancient Greeks knew as much about the solar system as we do.
Salt was a rare and costly commodity in ancient times.
We learn about ancient Rome and Greece.
He wrote a novel based on ancient myths.
My father is interested in ancient history.
Democracy originated in Ancient Greece.

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The ancient Roman ruins here at Caesarea in israel are a pretty potent reminder of that.
In ancient New York three men were about to cut off a Mormon woman's cli- toris.
Food, shelter, lots of ancient weapons, Custom tile and junk.
The ancient Egyptians believed that high mountains surrounded land and water on all sides.
According to the beliefs of other ancient civilizations, the sky was vaulted and the earth shaped into terraces.
The evil spirits of ancient times changed in the medieval folklore to devils, sneaking around and tempting children.
Marcasse swore to punish with his own hands the chief culprit: the elusive Tristan de Mauprat who hid among the ruins of his ancient fortress.
The legend tells of an ancient family that disappeared over five centuries ago and was said to be made up of vampires.
The ancient spells are weaker, but some of them are still potent, and I believe that you have in your hut the Scroll of Thoth itself, which contains the great spell by which Isis raised Osiris from the dead.
We Egyptians are not permitted to dig up our ancient dead.
The language of Ancient Egypt, not heard on this earth for 2,000 years.
I had never mentioned the name, yet I heard Miss Grosvenor mutter, in ancient Egyptian, something about Imhotep.
You have studied our ancient arts, and you know that you cannot harm me.
The ancient blood.
My father said they're an immortal tribe who've survived continuously since ancient times. hiding in the shadows.
This is either a code, or is written in an ancient language that I can't understand.
A missionary specializing in the ancient Mongolian language.
You may know something about ancient history, but I know something about husbands.
Ancient sport of kings, falconry.
However, the Suristanis are an ancient race of people.
They cannot so easily forget their ancient tribal ways of life.
He came to England from his ancient castle in Transylvania, bringing with him boxes of earth from his native grave.
The ancient music. with which your ancestors celebrated every wedd for countless generations.
It's an ancient Inca funeral dirge still used by the Indians in the remote Chilean Andes as a chant for the dead.
The letters of scholars, according to ancient traditions, do not allow us to doubt the reality of that dream.
Some of them can be traced back as far as ancient Egypt, and beyond that yet, in the countries that was old when Egypt was young.
The town is ancient. the city is modern.
In ancient times the Aryan tribe of the Langobardians made human sacrifice to the god Thor.
I've dug into ancient archives in Boston.
Oh that's undoubtedly the ancient sewage system seeping into it.
From what I gather, he spent his prison days studying some ancient documents.
Come with me to Mount Olympus. Drink nectar with the gods. Sing the ancient songs of pleasure.
I've never found ancient ruins an attractive sight.
Anyway, that's ancient history.
A bed of ancient news!

News and current affairs

Today's Chinese leadership has adopted that bit ancient wisdom to currency management.
Of course, ancient and difficult issues divide Armenia and Turkey.
At that point, only one conclusion is possible: The plundered Marbles must be reunited in their historical home and exhibited to the world as the ancient artists intended.
In the Iranian worldview, there are three great ancient Asian civilizations: Chinese, Indian, and Persian (with Persia being the greatest).
Ancient Arab lands are bestirred.
Why shouldn't another site of ancient enmities be the source of a new conception of statehood?
We have a rich history and ancient cultures.
But, as the ancient Greeks taught, the gods destroy by granting us our wishes or fulfilling them too completely.
The two civilizations had centuries of contact in ancient times.
Since ancient times, happiness has been universally seen as a good.
These contracts are the most ancient and remain the foundation of social relationships in China today.
Such a show of force is an ancient, traditional Chinese political technique.
Countries like PNG would thus be doubly better off if they cut down their ancient hardwood trees and replanted.
This is obvious to most Israelis, who also view this dominant role as a distortion of their ancient moral and religious values.
Loss of the ancient cedar, pine, fir, and oak forests on the slopes above is another matter.
While the US has problems, it hardly fits the description of absolute decline in ancient Rome, and the analogy to British decline, however popular, is similarly misleading.
Iranians have a sense of seniority, if not superiority, born of a rich and ancient culture that has survived into modern times.
Iran and Turkey, after all, are the 17th and 18th largest countries in the world by population, respectively, with sophisticated elites and illustrious and ancient pasts.
Indeed, it is a concept with ancient origins, and it plays a crucial role in the global protection of human rights.
He was very good at playing to that ancient Western stereotype of the Wise Man from the East.
In a hung parliament, Britain's ancient constitution would become a pawn among the parties as they haggle for a share of power.
Ancient rivalries and atavistic feuds may or may not be part of this; only future crisis will tell.
Its currency crumbles like its ancient buildings.
As the EU shows, ancient enmities and battle lines can be turned into mutually beneficial cooperation if a region looks forward, to resolving its long-term needs, rather than backward, to its long-standing rivalries and conflicts.
Li concluded his statement with the message, delivered via three lines by two canonical Chinese poets from the ancient Tang and Song dynasties, that his home was where he felt safe.

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