millennia

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Although Cave 338 was not used as a permanent settlement, the repeated returns over millennia suggest that the location held significant value for prehistoric groups.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026

"These yeasts have accompanied Oetzi on his long journey through the millennia," study co-author Frank Maixner said in a statement.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

"So you could be looking at decades, centuries, millennia before the actual lost peat itself begins to build back up."

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Mr. Wyman ends “Lost Worlds” by asking us to imagine what our descendants five or six millennia in the future might say of us based on the material debris of our daily lives.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

George’s ancestors had lived in this part of the world for millennia and had been the ones to greet the first French trappers who ventured north from Montreal in the 1600s.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz