Sentence examples for more ancient than from inspiring English sources

Unoriginality was much more ancient than I had originally suspected.

This is maybe more ancient than we realize.

Much older: about a thousand years more ancient than the papyrus itself.

What if the Earth is older and more ancient than you can imagine?

The history of those symbols is more ancient than the Ottoman Empire, however.

But as I left I saw the Celtic crosses, more ancient than the church itself.

Somehow this connected, too, with the idea of celebrating a rite that is more ancient than either Islam or democracy.

The results suggested that the chemical process for rubber production was both more complex and more ancient than expected.

But what this shell means is that the "modern mind" is much more ancient than we'd ever imagined.

At 47m years old, Ida – or Darwinius masillae, to use her formal name – is much more ancient than that.

Since things are much more ancient than letters, it is no marvel if, in our day, no records exist of these seas having covered so many countries..