Ian Hamilton Finlay

I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.

Scottish Poet

Christopher Jackson

One of the beautiful parts about Hamilton is it takes these figures that we've always revered as figures of antiquity and there's real blood flowing through their veins. There's real conflict. There's real life.

American Actor

Martin Chemnitz

Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture.

German Theologian

Bayard Taylor

Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.

American Journalist

Mary Beard

Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to talk to antiquity.

John Milton

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

English Poet

Friedrich Nietzsche

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

German Philosopher

Francois Rabelais

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

French Clergyman

Pierre Bayle

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

French Philosopher

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.

Indian Statesman

Use 'antiquity' to refer to times like Ancient Greece or Rome, not just any old past.

Historical Time Frame

'Antiquity' is used for periods well before the Middle Ages, not recent history.

Not Current History

Refers to ancient cultural and intellectual achievements or practices.

Cultural Heritage

Primarily used to describe tangible objects from long ago, such as pottery or coins.

Physical Objects

Be aware that trading antiquities can involve legal issues due to their historical value.

Legality Concerns

Antiquities often have high monetary or cultural value, frequently found in museums.

High Value

Conveys something's great age, often with respect or admiration for its longevity.

Ancient Character

Can be metaphorical, suggesting something is outdated or old-fashioned, not only old.

Metaphorical Usage

 region so it's clear that there is a connection here that is we know there's some kind of connection but the character of that connection is really somewhat unclear history only takes us so far they say well of course there was trade up and down this valley but what do we know about the antiquity of this trade how well does it connect anything that we would want to talk about in

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 longing and this is really what's emblematic of this incredible place it feels like it has this great expansive spiritual nough stew it it feels like it has this great depth of antiquity to it and when you travel in this place you can't help but feel the great impermanence of it and you can't help

 jeselsohn stone named for respected antiquities collector david jeselsohn has recently surfaced I don't have anything like it of such a long prophetic biblical inscription from that time on stone the jeselsohn stone threatens to destroy the claim that christ's crucifixion and resurrection

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 antiquity and then later in the Middle Ages and I learned a whole bunch of really interesting stuff one of the really interesting things that I learned is that once upon a time this idea of having a trained disciplined cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it

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 they might just sell me like an antiquity other warlords will be a keeper one so in Parliament I thought of course he said to me a bit real jack has to go and do this to go and meet these dealers but I felt I had no choice

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 preservation of the world's greatest achievements of art and antiquities who owns the past we all do basically it has a lot and perhaps totally to do with what is in the eye of the beholder these are today's treasure wars

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 Africans of antiquity created civilization, and their monuments, which still stand today, are a true testimony of their greatness. Most probably, one of humanity's greatest achievements is the invention of the alphabet,

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 on clay tablets, the Earth's volumes remained inscrutable to humans. We were geologically illiterate, unaware of the antiquity of our own planet and ignorant of our connection to deep time.

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 Nadia's help the museum agreed to let me inspect the seized antiquities

Antiquity

The very old past.

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A very old or ancient object.

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The quality of being ancient or very old.

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Not Current History

Cultural Heritage

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