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

"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

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

During the fifth and fourth millennia BC, cities with tens of thousands of inhabitants sprouted in the Fertile Crescent, and each of these held sway over many nearby villages.

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