ancient

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In its way the Prelude stubs its toe on an ancient dilemma: How do we know what is real and what isn’t?

From The Wall Street Journal

Among the species discovered were ancient relatives of worms, sponges and jellyfish.

From Barron's

At the same time, she adds, anything one finds in the documents of the ancient world has to be seen as “potential evidence.”

From The Wall Street Journal

We enter through one of the ancient walled gates into the old city, driving slowly through the bumpy cobblestoned streets and narrow alleys.

From Literature

"You need so much water that we think these could be evidence of an ancient warmer and wetter climate where there was rain falling for millions of years."

From Science Daily