The phrase "ancient locks" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe locks that are very old, often implying historical significance or craftsmanship.
Example: "The castle was adorned with ancient locks that had withstood the test of time, each telling a story of its own."
Alternatives: "old locks" or "historic locks".
Murdoch's political philosophy is also ancient, locked in a cold war time warp.
Anyway, the story is suppose to take place aboard an Ancient ship that's locked in autopilot so you'll probably end up seeing a lot of the ship.
But arguably the museum's rarest and most magical holdings are the troves of ancient gold locked away in the guided-tour-only Treasure Galleries.
By studying ancient magnetic fields locked in the metallic grains of volcanic rocks and sediments, geologists know that the field occasionally reverses: The north magnetic pole becomes the south, and vice versa.
The frequency and strength of the ocean-warming climate phenomenon were more variable during the 20th century than, on average, during the preceding 7000 years, according to new analyses of climate records locked within ancient corals.
But a storm begins to brew, the lights go out, and suddenly they're locked in the ancient fortress.
The descendant of the demon king who was locked away by ancient heroes of PangYa.
In ancient China, the sluice gate, the canal lock, and flash lock had been known since at least the 1st century BCE (as sources then alluded that they were not new innovations), during the ancient Han dynasty (202 BCE–220 CE).
He showed us in to a locked storeroom filled with ancient manuscripts: shelves of little yellowing bundles.
At parties, the digital guys come across as cutting-edge, whereas the door-lock guys soon have to admit that their last truly stunning innovation, the pin-tumbler lock, was devised in ancient Egypt but then got lost for 4,000 years until Linus Yale, an American inventor, rediscovered it.
