Sentence examples for ancient from high-quality English sources.

• Menes was a legendary king of ancient Egypt.

• The bone structure suggests the owner was an ancient athlete.

• These commentaries are being translated in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Project.

• This spurred me to organize and edit a theme issue dedicated specifically to ancient DNA research, Ancient DNA: the first three decades (2015).

• The remains of many ancient monuments still stand in Rome.

• …picture gallery in either ancient Greece or ancient Rome.

• Fist-fighting contests date back to ancient times and probably much earlier.

• A number of ancient civilizations, including ancient Greece and Rome, had navies.

Use ancient in a sentence.

• Pinacotheca, Greek Pinakotheke, Latin Pinacotheca, a picture gallery in either ancient Greece or ancient Rome.

• General studies of ancient Greek athletics include Mark Golden, Sport and Society in Ancient Greece (1998); H.A.

• For most of us, if we were asked to name an ancient language we’d probably come up with Babylonian, or Ancient Egyptian.

• (Limited discussion of this period is included below; See also Aegean civilization; ancient Greece; ancient Rome; Byzantine Empire.)

• The modern upholders of the ancient Hīnayāna tradition are the Theravādins (followers of the Way of the Elders), who are but one of the 18 ancient schools.

• Evidence of this fact in modern-day Izmir is most apparent upon visiting ancient Agora, which was the name for a “public gathering place or market” in ancient Greek city-states.

• All contemporary and ancient Native Americans, including the only known ancient individual buried in association with Clovis tools, show descent from an ancestral population with Siberian roots.

• The main treatment of Classical Greek and Roman history is given in the articles Aegean civilizations; ancient Greek civilization; Hellenistic Age; ancient Italic people; and ancient Rome.

ancient sentence examples

• All genetics research to date has affirmed the shared ancestry of all ancient and contemporary indigenous peoples of the Americas, and refuted stories about the presence of “lost tribes”, ancient Europeans, and (I can’t believe that I actually have to say this) ancient aliens.

• …or reserved for priests; in ancient Greece it contained an accessible cult image, but services were held outside the main facade; and in the ancient Near East and in the Mayan and Aztec architecture of ancient Mexico, where the temple was erected at the summit of pyramidal mounds, only privileged…

• Coauthor of Sacred Space and Sacred Function in Ancient Thebes (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization) (2007); Perspectives on Ptolemaic Thebes: Occasional Proceedings of the Theban Workshop (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization) (2011); The Pyramid of Senwosret I: The South Cemeteries of Lisht (2012), among others.

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