ancient
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Anthropologists rely on them to reconstruct ancient diets, lifestyles and health.
From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026
It’s clearly vying to be shelved alongside the sententious Stoic self-help books that have become trendy among seekers of meme-able ancient wisdom in recent years.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Father Carlos Martins, for example, produces an Exorcist Files podcast with 40,000 followers on YouTube that promises to take viewers through his experiences “battling the ancient serpent in many forms.”
From Slate • Jun. 8, 2026
It’s believed to have first appeared in text in the Mahabharata, one of two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India.
From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026
This ancient woman was the mother of Captain Babushkinov.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing ancient
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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