The phrase "an ancient version" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an earlier form or edition of something, often in historical or literary contexts.
Example: "The manuscript we found is an ancient version of the text that predates all known copies."
Alternatives: "a historical version" or "an old edition".
I had an ancient version of a PDA and used it.
Although this weirdly named watch runs an ancient version of Android, it looks like an iPod Nano on your wrist.
None of this means that a Hebrew manuscript, an ancient version, or a conjectural emendation cannot yield a reading superior to that in the received Hebrew text.
The "lioness" scene was created by a team of artists who embedded the precisely shaped tesserae (small blocks cut from colored stone) in lime mortar, an ancient version of concrete.
On the surface, moral reciprocity may seem like an ancient version of what in business has come to be called "the employability contract": An employer promises to further the employee's professional development (and thus career prospects) in return for the employee's commitment to perform at the highest possible level throughout his or her tenure.
That jar carried an ancient version of a wine label, identifying it as an herbal wine.
Shot at Edit Festival in Haarlem, Netherlands last week, this video shows an exceptionally slick fellow dropping a mystical, ancient version of the running man (a favorite amongst the elderly).
"In the case of The Smith and the Devil, it's a cunning tale – the trickster tricked, showing a very ancient version of that defiance of difficulty.
No fewer than seven cities in ancient times claimed Homer as a son the ancient version of "George Washington Slept Here".
A later redaction of the "ancient version" was made by Fan Yingyuan in the Song dynasty.
A computer with only Microsoft's ancient version of Java will also give this error installed.
