millennia

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"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

Two and a half millennia later, democracies are still deeply concerned about dangerous ideas corrupting the youth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The new linguistic skills that modern Sapiens acquired about seventy millennia ago enabled them to gossip for hours on end.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari