The phrase "ancient paper" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe paper that is very old, often associated with historical documents or artifacts.
Example: "The museum displayed a collection of ancient paper manuscripts that date back to the 12th century."
Alternatives: "old parchment" or "historic paper."
I was surprised to see that they had not been cleaned up; in the ash piles, there were scraps of ancient paper with identifiable calligraphy.
A few times a week, Mr. Scheide still climbs several flights of steps, with difficulty, to the rear entrance of the highly secure enclave to study his collections, running his ungloved finger across the ancient paper and vellum.
Researchers affiliated with North Carolina's First Colony Foundation persuaded the British Museum, which had long held the map, to use ultraviolet imaging to peer beneath an ancient paper patch.
"The solemn fact," E. B. White noted in this space after the old Sun set, "is not that we lose a conservative paper, or an ancient paper, or an honest paper, or a funny paper, but that we lose a paper — one voice in the choir".
Furthermore, unbleached pulp can be fibrillated [20], which is a particularly interesting aspect with reference to (ancient) paper shades.
We revisit an ancient paper (Auriault and Bonnet, 1985) which points out the existence of cut-off frequencies for long acoustic wavelength in high-contrast elastic composite materials, i.e. when the wavelength is large with respect to the characteristic heterogeneity length.
A young woman discovers ancient papers relating to the Dracula legend.
The earliest known draft of the King James Bible, regarded as the most widely read work in English, has been unearthed among ancient papers lodged in a Cambridge college.
On the bookshelf in my kitchen I have my grandmothers copy of Claibornes epochal New York Times Cook Book (1961), protectively covered in the remains of an ancient brown paper grocery bag and annotated in black felt tip pen.
Because, of course, twitching and shivering can be catching; because Politico's ambitions tell us something significant about the worldwide vulnerability of the written news industry, ancient (on paper) and modern (on a screen you can click away).
"Ancient old papers, people haven't been looking, all that usual conspiracy crap," he says.
