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

The truth is more mundane: Their makers figured out their creations can’t do it all alone, and require the knowledge and tools honed over millennia by us mere mortals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 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

Within a few millennia that single ancestral Polynesian society had spawned on those diverse islands a range of diverse daughter societies, from hunter-gatherer tribes to proto-empires.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond