The phrase "ancient substances" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to materials or compounds that have been used or recognized since ancient times, often in historical, archaeological, or scientific contexts.
Example: "Archaeologists discovered ancient substances that were used in traditional medicine by early civilizations."
Alternatives: "historical materials" or "old compounds".
But it unquestionably began in a natural environment, in which whatever life inhabited the earth was subjected, for good or ill, to influences that had their origin in sun and storm and the ancient substances of the planet.
With two high-pressure water hoses, rivers of cleaning solution and a special Department of Sanitation truck that sucked the ancient substances from the sewers, they cleaned and cleaned.
"This evidence of oxygen as an ancient substance will likely discredit some theoretical models of the formation of the solar system," said Altwegg.
We hypothesized that matrix peptides and proteins (silaffins and silacidins) could be among the most ancient matrix substances of biomineralization [ 33].
By trial and error, the ancients discovered substances like animal fats and vegetable and mineral oils that are efficient lubricants.
Athletes have used performance-enhancing substances since ancient times.
Earth, air, fire, and water were candidate substances in ancient times; energy, the chemical elements, and subatomic particles are more contemporary examples.
"But equally impressive is the way ancient examples anticipated, in substance or in principle, almost every basic form of biological and chemical weapon known today".
Tomorrow's byelection in the parliamentary constituency of Blaenau Gwent poses just such a challenge to the authoritarianism of the Welsh Labour party - an organisation that is new in its managerialist form but ancient in its centralist substance.
Not many in the current debate realize that the Bible contains a book that celebrates non-reproductive sex and features substances used by ancient women for birth control.
To study these ancient texts and find meaning in them and substance so many years later.
