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

Reid said if several centimetres are lost to fire, then "you're losing decades, centuries, potentially millennia of peatland".

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Although the concept of flavored yogurts has existed for millennia across the diaspora, raita is believed to have first appeared in print around the 19th century.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

Nor is it a new thing for man to invent an existence that he imagines to be above the rest of life; this has been his most consistent intellectual exertion down the millennia.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas