millennia

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Although Cave 338 was not used as a permanent settlement, the repeated returns over millennia suggest that the location held significant value for prehistoric groups.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026

"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 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

What separates the archaeologists and Egyptologists from the narrator, editor and supervisor of the music is that there are very few definitive answers to questions being asked three millennia after the fact.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Everything that philosophers had taken for granted for millennia was called into doubt.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife