The phrase "ancient burden" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a long-standing or historical weight or responsibility that has been carried over time, often with a sense of significance or gravity.
Example: "The ancient burden of tradition weighed heavily on the community, influencing their decisions and way of life."
Alternatives: "historical weight" or "time-honored load".
But while "The Time of Our Singing" rewards on many levels — musical, structural, intellectual — the characters cannot heft the ancient burden of their theme.
She would have given up her life in California, moved home and "taken up the ancient burden of unpaid female altruism.
While they were often viewed as benevolent protectors, they also carried the ancient burden of being pariahs, or scavengers, and were sometimes seen as symbols of sexual promiscuity, as Edgar Peters Bowron, curator of European art at the Houston museum, notes in his catalog essay.
The truth is that without the Red Sox and the Cubs shouldering their ancient burdens, without the ghosts of Leon Durham and Bill Buckner shadowing them through the ages, the mythology of baseball and the grand literary pretensions that we love to imbue it with will be impoverished.
Anton spoke like someone whose grievances were so far in excess of his ability to express them that he might have been the bearer of an ancient, tribal burden.
The rise of global industrial fishing has been deadly for the shark, an ancient fish burdened with the triple curse of being easy to catch, slow to reproduce and delicious in soup.
These iconoclasts would happily leave behind the burden of ancient stones and get on with the church's real mission.
But Israel is an enslaved state, enslaved to itself: it is fettered by fossilized thought patterns; manacled by ancient, even primitive, concepts; burdened by the worst yoke of all -- the one it has imposed on its own neck.
Indeed, Aston Martin had been reduced to slapping fender flares, ugly front clips, and rejiggered grilles onto the ancient DB6 design, further burdened by a clunky V-8.
The main burden of the ancient Latin poet Lucretius Dee rerum natura ("On the Nature of Things") is a presentation of the materialism of the Greek philosopher Democritus, and an embodiment of the worldview of medieval Roman Catholicism is the very warp and woof of Dante's Divine Comedy and such considerations (it would be contended) are relevant to these works as literature.
However, the variation between individuals in overall burden of such ancient autozygosity becomes very small [ 25], and thus there are diminishing returns from attempting to detect such ancient autozygosity, at least with respect to analyses investigating overall ROH burden.
