The phrase "a collection of ancient" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a group or assortment of items, artifacts, or texts that are old or from a previous era.
Example: "The museum features a collection of ancient artifacts from various civilizations."
Alternatives: "an assortment of ancient" or "a compilation of ancient".
We have quite a collection of ancient salt sea fossils.
A collection of ancient Rolling Stones T-shirts.
This research apprenticeship project involves cataloging a collection of ancient obsidian source samples from South America.
She was named after a verse in the Book of Songs, a collection of ancient Chinese poetry that is believed to have been compiled by Confucius.
The Western tradition of fable effectively begins with Aesop, a likely legendary figure to whom is attributed a collection of ancient Greek fables.
Dr. Willerslev once proudly showed off a collection of ancient Danish skulls to Native American visitors, only to find them upset by the sight.
"Lubbock aroused national attention [for] ancient monuments," says Glancey. "At the time places like Stonehenge were just seen as a collection of stones, ancient quarries to get building materials.
In 1839 Théodore Hersart de La Villemarqué published Barzaz Breiz, a collection of purportedly ancient Breton folk songs and ballads.
Private collections of poetry in kana began to be compiled about 880, and in 905 the Kokinshū (A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern), the first major work of kana literature, was compiled by the poet Ki Tsurayuki and others.
In mathematics, he wrote a short discourse on the logarithmic theories of the English mathematician John Napier and edited a collection of seven ancient mathematical works, the last of which is his own collation.
(As a counter to the length of these classics of early Arabic poetry, the 9th-century philologist al-Mufaḍḍal al-Ḍabbī compiled a collection of shorter ancient poems, initially for pedagogical purposes, that came to be known as Al-Mufaḍḍaliyyāt).
