millennia

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"So you could be looking at decades, centuries, millennia before the actual lost peat itself begins to build back up."

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Although the concept of flavored yogurts has existed for millennia across the diaspora, raita is believed to have first appeared in print around the 19th century.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

The Al-Bass site is centred on a necropolis that dates back three millennia to Tyre's time as a major Phoenician city and was still in use until the Arab conquests of the 7h Century.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

The study, titled "Unprecedented burning in tropical peatlands during the 20th century compared to the previous two millennia," is published in Global Change Biology.

From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026

Perhaps it originally represented the important insight that the sky nurtures the Earth; if so, that meaning seems to have been forgotten millennia ago.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan