ancient
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For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibers, or easing gum pain with makeshift “toothpicks.”
From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026
Amid this upheaval, he wanted to be sure that his son, Septimius, inherited the wisdom of the ancient Greeks—but doubted whether Septimius would have the patience to wade through a vast corpus of 1,000-year-old works.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Father Carlos Martins, for example, produces an Exorcist Files podcast with 40,000 followers on YouTube that promises to take viewers through his experiences “battling the ancient serpent in many forms.”
From Slate • Jun. 8, 2026
It was among the first bands to hire Bill Whitten to create costumes mixing the iconography of ancient Egypt with Afrofuturism.
From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026
It was alight with silver; it looked alive, an ancient, breathing thing.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Vocabulary lists containing ancient
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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"The People Could Fly," Vocabulary from the folk tale
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