The phrase "ancient collections" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to historical artifacts, documents, or items that have been preserved from ancient times.
Example: "The museum's exhibit features ancient collections from various civilizations, showcasing their art and culture."
Alternatives: "historical artifacts" or "antique collections".
They will need more than their usual patience to rebuild Iraq's magnificent ancient collections.
In the ruins of ancient Pompeii and in a crypt in a Mayan pyramid in Yucatán, shells were found that may be the remains of ancient collections.
Both do eventually, of course, as digitally assisted battles all but level Rick and Evelyn's London mansion and rage through the ancient collections at the British Museum.
The greatest and most famous of the ancient collections, the Library of Alexandria, had, in its ambitions and its methods, a good deal in common with Google's book projects.
Often her shows are original, developed in collaboration with actors from intractable source material like Proust's "In Search of Lost Time," the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci and ancient collections of fable, including "The Odyssey," "Metamorphoses" and "The Arabian Nights".
He knew what he was talking about when he described the business of going through ancient collections, and he grew up in an ecclesiastical environment, so knew an apse from a chasuble; but why he found fear in these elements is something of a mystery in itself.
When I was 10, I found an ancient collection of Grimm fairy tales in the basement.
Across the first decade of the twenty-first century, that ancient collection of miscellaneous pieces sold about seven hundred copies a year.
The XII Panegyrici Latini, an ancient collection of these speeches, includes the gratiarum actio delivered by Pliny the Younger when he was nominated consul by the emperor Trajan in ad 100.
Even today, seen from a Chinese tour bus, the continent of Europe resembles not so much an ancient collection of cities and nations as a glittering emporium stocked with brands.
Even worse, when the Balenciaga company moved headquarters, the ancient collection of dresses wrapped in tissue, the sketches, photos of the collections, hats, silk flowers, feathers, fabric scraps, unfinished dresses, boots, velvet shoes and buttons were all moved in the middle of the night.
