The phrase "ancient instruction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to teachings, guidelines, or knowledge that has been passed down from earlier times.
Example: "The ancient instruction on herbal medicine has been preserved through generations and is still relevant today."
Alternatives: "ancient teachings" or "old wisdom".
The other was a stone tablet, from the ninth century BC, inscribed in ancient Hebrew with instructions by King Joash for maintaining Solomon's Temple.
The New Yorker, November 29 , 1941P. 13 The archeologists are still busy these days digging up ancient truths for our instruction.
The Haggadah was compiled over hundreds of years, and draws on a variety of sources: fragments of Biblical verse, Talmudic argumentation, folk songs, ancient prayers, and ritual instruction.
It was Joseph's ambition to present a picture of the island's ancient culture for the instruction of the American servicemen.
By Stanley Edgar Hyman and Brendan Gill The New Yorker, November 29 , 1941P. 13 The archeologists are still busy these days digging up ancient truths for our instruction.
Proverbs were used in ancient China for ethical instruction, and the Vedic writings of India used them to expound philosophical ideas.
Not far from New Sound, booksellers in this city's ancient market hawk sex-instruction manuals alongside yellowing paperbacks from Egypt interpreting the Koran.
Denise Welch, well-known from Coronation Street, plays one of three friends who discover an ancient book that includes instructions for rituals that guarantee to turn back the clock.
His proposed academy, which would take the place of both secondary school and college, was to concentrate on instruction in the ancient classics, with due subordination to the Bible and Christian teaching.
This opens a smooth path for instruction about the ancient earth, the millennia-long processes of deposition of sediments and erosion, the comparison of fossils found in lower versus higher rock strata, and how these changes in these fossils reveal endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful.
