The phrase "ancient descendants" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to people or groups who are considered to be the historical or ancestral lineage of a particular culture or civilization.
Example: "The ancient descendants of the Mayans still celebrate their cultural heritage through various festivals and traditions."
Alternatives: "historical descendants" or "ancestral lineage".
Hasmonean Dynasty, also spelled Hasmonaean, dynasty of ancient Judaea, descendants of the Maccabee family.
I and my other ancient Hebrew descendants were eager to pass around Alcohoot and see how drunk we were.
The evidence includes the following three: (a) Malay and Ancient Yue descendants have a physique similar to modern Chinese people in Fujian and Guangdong in the southeast coast; (b) Malay and Ancient Yue shared similarities in language, tattooes, broken hair, snake worship, nesting, seamanship expertise and the like; (c) there are similar pre-historical antiquities".
"The memory of his prolific career has faded," Paul J. Tarver and Cristin J. Nunez write in the catalog of Pepper's first major retrospective, "Ancestors and Descendants: Ancient Southwestern America at the Dawn of the 20th Century," which opens on Saturday at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
When my husband and I return to our home reservation we will be a part of the mending of the Sacred Hoop, the enlightenment and healing of the ancients, through their descendants.
"Louise Firouz was the first to do the research and recognize that these were descendants of ancient horses," Ms. Stull said.
They are the descendants of ancient bacteria which gave up their free-living lifestyle to form a symbiotic relationship with other cells.
It emerged more than a decade ago around the conviction that blacks were descendants of ancient tribes of Israel that were exiled to Africa and sold into slavery.
Rabbinical leaders have said that 6,000 members of the Bnei Menashe tribe in northeast India are descendants of ancient Israelites or one of the Biblical 10 lost tribes.
Then came Darwin, who declared us descendants of ancient primates, and each living species the pinnacle of evolution in its particular niche.
