millennia

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This provides "very little evidence that the yeasts have been multiplying over millennia," he said, adding that he believed they were "relatively recent colonists of the mummy's body".

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

The study, titled "Unprecedented burning in tropical peatlands during the 20th century compared to the previous two millennia," is published in Global Change Biology.

From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026

However, since the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Romans did not have zero, the Western calendar does not have any zeros—an oversight that would cause problems millennia later.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife