ancient
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Foreign tourists have to brave few lines to visit Jordan's ancient city of Petra these days.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
It wasn’t just the ancient Greeks and the American founders who favored classical forms; Roman emperors and the Nazis did too.
From Slate • May 18, 2026
Somewhere in that ancient mix of species, landscapes, diets, and chance events, the path to modern humans began to take shape.
From Science Daily • May 16, 2026
Thucydides was the great ancient historian of the Peloponnesian War, and he argued that a rising Athens frightened Sparta and led to war.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
To stand in the place where Palomita found the ancient note.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
Vocabulary lists containing ancient
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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"The People Could Fly," Vocabulary from the folk tale
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