The phrase "a tiny ancient" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is both small in size and very old, often in a poetic or metaphorical context.
Example: "In the heart of the forest, I discovered a tiny ancient tree, its gnarled roots telling stories of centuries past."
Alternatives: "a small relic" or "a miniature antique".
Their teachers are a formidable gay couple with assistants including a "tiny, ancient" accompanist straight out of central casting.
Sharp grew up in a tiny, ancient countryside village called Potterspury, in the U.K., a town not far from "two pubs called the Cock and the Bull, of a cock-and-bull story," he told me.
A tiny ancient relic can cause havoc: tree stumps and pipes, buried decades ago in an earthen levee's innards, can rot or rust, undermining the structure with no outward sign of trouble.
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A nearly complete skeleton of a tiny, ancient primate — one that weighed no more than an ounce, had a tail longer than its body and would fit in the palm of your hand — is the earliest well-preserved fossil primate ever found, dating back some 55 million years and dialing back the fossil record for primates by an impressive eight million years, a research team declared on Wednesday.
A tiny ancient couple got up to dance, the woman so unsteady on her feet that her husband had to walk with both arms around her just to help her to the polished wood floor.
Combined with the knowledge that lacewing larvae are known to be active predators, a picture emerges of this tiny, ancient hunter: a larval lacewing with impossibly spindly legs silently grasping along a spider's silken threads, closing in on its quarry before dealing its fatal blow with sharp pincer jaws.
There's a new addition to the "tiny ancient animals I'd like to have as a pet" list: a mini-mammoth that stood about three feet high.
Scientists have found the remains of tiny, ancient animals in an Antarctic lake that has lain undisturbed for thousands of years beneath a kilometre-thick slab of ice.
The tiny, ancient Peruvian seed, which has a mild, nutty flavor, is related to leafy green vegetables and is often used like a grain.
He was also a world-renowned expert and collector of trilobites, tiny ancient marine creatures which he called the "butterflies of the sea". Levi-Setti discovered thousands of the fossils on expeditions from Newfoundland to the Czech Republic.
