anciently
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Anciently created as single-chamber tombs, dolmens dot the Danish landscape, and during the Romantic era became emblems of home pride, of national strength and lastingness.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2023
Anciently, its presence was used as a quasi-scientific explanation for a gloom-disposed temperament, a personality type that would be pathologized by Freud.
From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2022
Anciently called Lachish, this site was a fortress in the Kingdom of Judah.
From Time Magazine Archive
Anciently Sardinia was colonized by the Phoenicians, Carthaginians and Romans.
From Time Magazine Archive
Anciently they were specifically places of sacrifice—the abodes of gods to whom sacrifice was offered—and this function generally determined their interior form.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris
