The phrase "a mixture of ancient" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that combines elements from ancient times or cultures.
Example: "The museum's exhibit is a mixture of ancient artifacts and modern interpretations of historical events."
Alternatives: "a blend of ancient" or "a combination of ancient".
The wood is a mixture of ancient woodland (defined as having existed continuously since 1600), semi-ancient woodland and some more modern plantation.
THE parliamentary campaign in Bumbuli, a constituency of 167,000 souls in the mountainous Lushoto district of Tanzania, is a mixture of ancient and modern.
The last traces of the Pontic dialect, a mixture of ancient and modern Greek, is swiftly fading in the large Greek communities in Astoria and Toronto, and in the parts of northern Greece where those who were expelled settled.
Rather more pilgrims flock to Uffmoor Wood, an island in a sea of pasture sporting a mixture of ancient woodland, younger broad-leaves and imposing stands of conifers that provide a welcome respite from the hurly-burly of urban life.
A coterie of musicians (including a self-described "Balkan-klezmer-Gypsy-punk-super-party band" called the Lemon Bucket Orkestra) performs a mixture of ancient incantations, raucous "Goat Songs" and even, for something a little more cutting-edge, a Baroque Nativity folk opera.
By night, the city's attractions are a mixture of ancient traditions and modern hedonism.
Medieval medicine was basically a mixture of the ancient "four humors" theory and the astrological formulations of the Arabic physicians of the end of the first millennium.
Several landmark papers have described the genomes of ancient humans across West Eurasia, demonstrating the presence of large-scale, dynamic population movements over the last 10,000 years, such that ancestry across present-day populations is likely to be a mixture of several ancient groups [1 7].
Located in the Lombardy region of Northern Italy, Milan is a vibrant city with a mixture of both ancient and modern influences.
The performers were all dressed in a weird mixture of ancient Jewish and Native American attire.
African politics is a weird mixture of ancient tribal mentalities and democratic ideals imported from the West.
