Sentence examples for antiquity better from inspiring English sources

Were the people of antiquity better or worse off than us?

In 1800, Jefferson would defeat him for the presidency and the Federalist were well on their way to becoming a political party of antiquity whose better days were behind them.

This is not about opening the floodgates (that other fear so often voiced by those who claim the antiquities are better off in London).

Archeologists who now argue that antiquities are better served in the dirt where they came from than dispersed among public museums like the Met imply that they prefer the past remain dead and buried.

Dubbed the Cheapside Hoard, the mysterious cache — much of it still caked with bits of earth — found its way to a pawnbroker and antiquities trader named George Fabian Lawrence, better known as Stony Jack, "the bloke at Wandsworth who buys old stones and bits of pottery," as a laborer quoted by The Daily Herald described him.

Supporters praise its cavernous space and have claimed the building will offer better protection of the antiquities and a superior viewing space for spectators, who previously had to negotiate the confines of a tiny museum atop the hill.

Fortunately, the U.S. State Department has now taken a proactive approach to educating countries about what steps they can take to better ensure that looted antiquities do not enter the United States.

Such technologies can also allow those with disabilities to better experience and interact with antiquities.

In 1950, professor Elias Wessén and the county custodian of antiquities requested that it be removed for better analysis together with three other runestones, but the request was rejected by the Royal Board of Construction (KBS) because of safety concerns.

Plowing in Antiquity: debunking the idea that we do it better today; translated selections from Book II of Columella's de Re Rustica.

Ptolemy, in the 2nd century ce, carried the latter tradition to its highest point in antiquity in his Hē mathēmatikē syntaxis ("The Mathematical Collection," better known under its Greek-Arabic title, Almagest).