antiquity
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Egyptians in antiquity engaged in sword combat for warfare, but also for competition — Romans utilized swords in gladiator events, rituals and duels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
It is also a love story, set in the modern world but steeped in antiquity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Back in 416 B.C., the refusal to submit to Athens, the superpower of antiquity, ended badly for the islanders of Melos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
"The new finds of Homo teeth from 2.6 -- 2.8 million year old sediments -- reported in this paper -- confirms the antiquity of our lineage," said Brian Villmoare, lead author and ASU alumnus.
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2026
To read these ancient episodes is to be returned, as ’twere, to myself; in lost antiquity, I seek my restoration.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
"It's one of the first cases where we can see the whole discussion about restitution of antiquities that were illegally exported, until some were returned to Turkey," Alexandridis said.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026
But Rolf von Kiaer, a friend and antiquities dealer, wrote in a tribute that Gradel was “completely uninterested in profit but driven by a desire that an overlooked object should be properly appreciated once more.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Dr Ittai Gradel, the academic turned antiquities dealer who exposed the theft of many hundreds of artefacts from the British Museum, has died of cancer, aged 61.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
In January, Turkey recovered an Anatolian-style marble head from Denver Art Museum in Colorado, said Burcu Ozdemir of the antiquities trafficking unit.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
The government forbade any trafficking in Indian antiquities and had given the priest a general concession, authorizing him to catalogue whatever he found and hand it over to the museum.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
Vocabulary lists containing antiquity
The Hobbit
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