Sentence examples for a great ancient from inspiring English sources

Hospitality is a great ancient tradition, and you give it freely.

So a great, ancient civilization was destroyed, in the name of God.

Graves takes us to a great ancient narrative of corruption (with the possibility of comparing it with the TV series).

The best-known of the Cheremis princes, called "the old man of the Nemda Mountain," is a great ancient warrior under whose rule the people were strong and united.

"In Italy, there's a great, ancient and august tradition: Here, they make fake money, done well," said Col. Alessandro Gentili, the head of the Italian Carabinieri's Currency Anticounterfeiting Unit in Rome.

Planetary scientists studying the images relayed home by the Mars Pathfinder are finding signs that a great ancient flood on the Red Planet deposited rocks at the landing site, the Ares Valles region.

The "artwork" in question was supposed to be a replica of the great ancient Egyptian bust of Nefertiti that resides in Berlin's Neues Museum.

The northern portion is a section of the northern Caspian tectonic depression, a vast downwarp in the great ancient structural block known as the Russian Platform.

Dark and straight, they stood -- a living wall separating the modern world from the great ancient wilderness to the north where, as an old Labrador trapper once put it, "you can just go and go and go".

"We have great ancient cameos and an impressive collection of medals and plaquettes, but until now we had no example of Renaissance gem carving," said Jon L. Seydl, Cleveland's curator or European painting and sculpture.

Istanbul may have been a great and ancient centre of civilisation, but there is nothing serene or timeless about the place.