The phrase "ancient professions" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to jobs or trades that have existed for a long time, often throughout history.
Example: "Archaeologists often study ancient professions to understand the daily lives of past civilizations."
Alternatives: "historical occupations" or "traditional trades".
Yet these diverse branches of the ancient profession of law have one thing in common: they're doomed.
Since then, she has helped invigorate the ancient profession and built her company, Auction Systems Auctioneers and Appraisers, to more than $100 million in annual revenue.
But the most likely explanation is that, since prostitution is such an ancient profession, it is thought that the lust of men is simply unconquerable and that feminism, however rampageous, could never be its match.
Sadly, the word "clown" no longer refers to this great and ancient profession.
You may turn up your nose at the ancient profession, but you shouldn't; we're all hookers in our own way.
Engraving metal to be used for coins and medallions is an ancient profession, although it has been updated by digital three-dimensional modeling and scanning programs, and knowing how to work with these new tools has become part of the job requirement.
Sun TV will have programmes on love, marriage and concubines in old China, on the lives of emperors, and even on such ancient Cantonese professions as ear-picking.Will such worthy stuff make money?
Journalism is an ancient and admirable profession.
Yet it's hard not to worry that if medicine goes in the direction of the Cheesecake Factory, where care is administered on the cheap by customer-service technologists plugging data into an algorithm, then an ancient and noble profession will face extinction because of an inability (some might say a haughty unwillingness) to adequately contemplate and communicate its essential value proposition.
The section of the exhibit on her life outside the temple includes an examination of the social and legal rights of women in ancient Egypt and what professions were open to them.
