Sentence examples for ancient dates from inspiring English sources

One problem: The ancient dates came from the soil, not the artifacts themselves.

The book began as a meandering newspaper serial, and its form is digressive, but, after a few dozen pages, the blizzard of names and ancient dates becomes less daunting, and the reader can begin rooting for individual characters, fretting over their choices and their trials.

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

(Although raw radiocarbon dates must be calibrated to obtain true calendar years, which during this time period are probably several thousand years older, the precise calibration of such ancient dates is still uncertain. Thus the team has followed routine practice and reported only uncalibrated dates).

The ancient dates help fill in a continuity gap of human civilization, said study researcher Lucinda Backwell, a researcher in palaeoanthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.

For one thing, most courses start with ancient dates and run out of time to make it to the 20th century by the end of the school year, educators say.

A kind of ancient date-rape drug.

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

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.

"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.