Sentence examples for bit of antiquity from inspiring English sources

Sometimes you feel like you've happened upon a vast royal tomb, or museum storage for the relics of a lost Rheinish tribe; elsewhere, you might be in a connoisseur's home, looking at a bit of antiquity displayed on a mantle.

Often, the archaeologists are working just ahead of crews building fire lines, trying to prevent a false step or stray swing of a pickax from crushing a bit of antiquity.

As you wander outside, look at all the architecture, trying to spot the bits and pieces of antiquity that were incorporated into medieval and Renaissance buildings.

If his subject called for a city, he made one up from bits and pieces of antiquity.

"It even brought him to his adversary's home, a bit like in the traditions of bygone times, of antiquity".

Since the Lebanese department of antiquities owns this bit of history – it originally lay under a Christian school demolished more than a century ago – there are no legal problems, no property claims, no developers hustling for an early end to archaeological discoveries.

The new additions to the extant corpus of antiquity's greatest female artist were reported in papers around the world, leaving scholars gratified and a bit dazzled.

No other writer of antiquity mentioned him.

The history of sulfur is part of antiquity.

THE mangonel was the big gun of antiquity.

The Medusa of antiquity was, eventually, beheaded by Perseus.