The phrase "ancient child" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts that discuss themes of age, wisdom, or the juxtaposition of youth and antiquity, possibly in literature or poetry.
Example: "In the story, the ancient child possessed knowledge beyond their years, as if they had lived through centuries of experience."
Alternatives: "timeless youth" or "old soul".
Just stood there, this tiny, ancient child, with his hair all wisps and his shades refracting silver.
In 1989 he published his second novel, The Ancient Child, which weaves traditional tales and history with a modern urban Kiowa artist's search for his roots.
Hagedorn's intricate novel combines under high pressure the discovery of a Stone Age tribe in the Philippines and a movie in the making that recreates the Vietnam War; thematic characters include a Filipino playboy, his cook's 10-year-old daughter, an ancient child star and a Philippine-American journalist from a Rolling Stone-ish rock magazine.
The Los Angeles Times, reviewing the programme because it is shown on BBC America, said Smith had "screwed into this role good and tight", praising his Doctor as "an ancient child, an unstable mix of authority and impulsiveness".
Some childhood pastimes are timeless: a recent analysis of an ancient child's fossilized foot suggests that, more than three million years ago, our youthful ancestors had adaptations that allowed them to climb trees.
That's when I realized the magic of Moon House — a wilderness without fences where a 21st century man could reach across the centuries to touch the tracks of an ancient child.
"Rutherford and Son," directed by the august Jonathan Miller at the new St. James Theater, compares the patriarch at its center to the ancient, child-sacrifice-demanding god Moloch.
But ancient children's books contain images of a colourful planet, and despite the edicts forbidding so much as a mention of the outside world, much of the silo yearns for it.
Only a tiny fragment of the introduction survived, and as far as anyone could tell, it seemed to be about an ancient children's puzzle -- also known as the Stomachion -- that involved putting strips of paper together in different ways to make different shapes.
Researchers discover that ancient children climbed trees; develop new ways to build molecules; investigate the success of political outsiders; and examine the persistence of the racial earnings gap.
It is hard to say which symptoms the ancient Mesopotamian child suffered because no soft tissue remains on his or her skeleton today.
