Sentence examples for ancient date from inspiring English sources

Their calamities were of ancient date and they knew them to be irremediable".

The idea that disease was caused by entry into the body of imperceptible particles was of ancient date.

A VERY OLD SEED GROWS IN ISRAEL Ari Rabinovitch writes for Reuters about an ancient date seed that sprouted and may help restore a species of biblical trees.

Scientists still disagree, but new research places an ancient date on when the gold welled up from the earth's interior: three billion years ago.

Scientists in Israel have confirmed that an ancient date palm seed retrieved from the rubble of Masada and successfully germinated is about 2,000 years old.

"You can't pick an ancient date and then try and remove hundreds of brands that companies have invested in over the years," Mr. Hemsley said.

A kind of ancient date-rape drug.

The history of wet-nursing is ancient (dating to perhaps 3000 bce) and widespread.

A diverse group of thousands of species of gooey, saclike invertebrates found throughout the world, the jellyfish are preposterously ancient, dating back 600 million to 700 million years or longer.

All ancient dates, i.e., those pertaining to Socrates's life and the contemporaneous sources for his life, are B.C.E.

It also suggests that monkey hunting in apes is very ancient, dating back to the common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans.