The phrase "ancient understanding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to knowledge or insights that have been passed down through generations, often associated with historical or traditional wisdom.
Example: "The ancient understanding of herbal medicine continues to influence modern practices in holistic health."
Alternatives: "timeless wisdom" or "age-old knowledge".
Japanese culture is infused with ancient understanding of life's impermanence, she writes.
Far from being a recent pretext, the idea that marriage is about producing children is an ancient understanding, and a steadily weakening one.
These are marine people whose ancient understanding of the wind and the waves still often transcends what modern equipment has to offer.
Paradoxically, it could be that economics is delivering us back to the ancient understanding that there is more to life than money.Dr Raj PersaudConsultant psychiatrist, The Maudsley HospitalLondonSIR – You miss an established connection between economic inequality and death.
Adopting Quintilian's rendering of certainty as a matter of agreements and conventions, these later authors elaborate their own novel approaches to various fields including law, language, and logic through this ancient understanding of certum.
So while it might still be "horrid" in Boswell's more ancient understanding of the term (as something that made the hair on the back of your neck stand up), it's also profoundly gratifying, hinting at an imagined world in which we're the biggest thing around and our thumb can blot out a building.
We then faced the frightening truth that ancient understandings were not, in fact, the best maps of what is real.
'Iki' is the ancient Japanese understanding of understated elegance, a concept that has proved useful in the translation of the rules of the European and North American suit to other contexts.
Oldest because almost every ancient culture, understanding the need to predict the coming of the seasons, became expert at tracking and predicting the motions of the Sun, Moon and planets.
"It's sort of pejorative now, like this person's jaded, they know too much, and before it was the ancient Greek understanding of living virtuously and in harmony with nature and not to be too caught up trying to pursue fame or glory or material things and so on," he said.
The fact is that women possess a body of arcane knowledge, a set of complex skills, an ancient esoteric understanding that no one else has.
