as in ancientness
the state of being something old
despite their indisputable antiquity, many of the carvings look like they could have been made yesterday
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There was an easy confidence in antiquity, and all the way up to the Renaissance, that translation was indeed possible—though the more modern language may need to be stretched to accommodate the semantic richness, and classical authority, of the original.
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Max Norman, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
The desire to know more about the future may be almost universally human, but the ability to divine what lies ahead was certainly not universal, at least in antiquity.
—Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
Courtesy of Luke Auld-Thomas et al/Cambridge University Press Archaeologists increasingly recognize that the world's tropics and subtropics hosted a wide variety of urban forms in antiquity.
—Anna Lagos, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2024
The outcome was a series of amendments to the Act passed in 2021 that classify dealers in antiquities as, in effect, financial institutions covered by the law.
—Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2024
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Max Norman, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
The desire to know more about the future may be almost universally human, but the ability to divine what lies ahead was certainly not universal, at least in antiquity.
—Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
Courtesy of Luke Auld-Thomas et al/Cambridge University Press Archaeologists increasingly recognize that the world's tropics and subtropics hosted a wide variety of urban forms in antiquity.
—Anna Lagos, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2024
The outcome was a series of amendments to the Act passed in 2021 that classify dealers in antiquities as, in effect, financial institutions covered by the law.
—Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2024
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