The word 'antiquity' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe anything that is old, ancient or from a past era. For example, "The ruins of the ancient city are a testament to its antiquity."
Besides serving as an early-morning alarm clock, the bird also acts as a pest-control agent, while its body was used throughout antiquity in a plethora of remedies – and still is.
Being steeped in antiquity doesn't necessarily translate into people actually talking about you a whole lot: Rome scored a very average 'buzz' of 5/10.
More striking is the way that Seneca laid himself entirely open to the charges of hypocrisy, which were indeed levelled against him by contemporaries and many readers since antiquity.
The tombs contained no gold or valuables, which safeguarded them from tomb raiders throughout antiquity, and the bodies were not mummified.
Date: Course begins Wednesday 30th September 2015 Course fee: £4,000 From the brief lives of antiquity to Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets to monumental nineteenth century lives and letters, biography is a form that has shown a wonderful capacity for invention and reinvention.
Copying antiquity is what you were supposed to do, and new things emerged".
They range from classical antiquity to the 17th century, though the majority are from Byzantine, Medieval and Renaissance times.
The Ottoman powers in Athens cared nothing for the ruins of Greek antiquity, and had already pillaged them for building stone or bricked them up for gun-placements.
Keen observers of human nature would not be surprised to find cases stretching back to the origins of mail delivery in antiquity.
Mr Brown is a great Princeton academic who grew up in the twilight world of Protestant Dublin and hence felt an instinctive sympathy so he later explained for the world that he would define as late antiquity.
Having spent a decade trying to prove the item is a forgery, the Israeli authorities (in the person of a deputy state attorney) shifted position and said they must retain the object on grounds that it is an "antiquity".
