The phrase "ancient depictions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to representations or illustrations from a long time ago, often in the context of art, history, or archaeology.
Example: "The museum features a collection of ancient depictions that showcase the culture and beliefs of early civilizations."
Alternatives: "historical representations" or "old illustrations".
One of the principal forms of harp, it is apparently also the most ancient: depictions of arched harps survive from Sumer and Egypt from about 3000 bc.
The top 20 includes some ancient depictions (and I've no idea whether these offended anyone), a selection of Muhammad clipart, and several cartoons.
For The Iliad, for example, the website includes ancient depictions of the Trojan War from classical pottery and sculpture, examples of ancient arms and armor, and Renaissance depictions.
From at least the 14th century, the Burāq myth, visualized on the basis of ancient depictions of griffins, sphinxes, and centaurs, became a favourite subject of Persian miniature painting.
Macedonia erected a 92-foot-high, 30-ton bronze statue of a warrior on a horse in the main square of the capital, Skopje, on Tuesday — a monument that resembles ancient depictions of Alexander the Great, the hero of Greece, atop Bucephalus, his storied mount.
Doing research into the frame-drum music around the Mediterranean basin, which draws an astonishing variety of timbres from such an apparently simple instrument, she was struck by the fact that many of the musicians in ancient depictions of frame drumming are women.
But whatever you call the quantity of Energy or Force in the universe, it is now clear that the ancient depiction of "G_d" as an old White guy with a beard (Santa Claus' brother), does not, in any way, communicate the far more awe-inspiring scientific reality unearthed by Einstein in his 1905 formula.
Its most distinguishing features are its sensuous shifts of weight (creating a series of S-bend curves primarily at knee, torso, and neck), its rhythmic phrasing and its connection to ancient sculptural depictions of dance.
New research using ancient animal depictions tracks the collapse of Egypt's ecological networks one extinction at a time, offering a glimpse into how climate change and human impacts have altered the structure and stability of ecosystems over millennia.
Clad in a flowing blue and gold sheath over a leopard-print body suit, Sepúlveda interacts with the building and surrounding gardens in gestures inspired by ancient Mayan depictions of the gods.
He takes us to a plane of heightened deliberation which is instantly apparent in, for example, "War in Heaven" which recalls the ancient Greek depiction of Tiresias "wandering between the upper and lower worlds". It begins, in Chaikin's characteristically meditative, hypnotic voice, "I died the day I was born, and became an angel on that day.
