NOUN
- knowledge of some recent fact or event that has become so commonly known that it has lost its original pertinence
- a history of the ancient world
How To Use ancient history In A Sentence
- ancient history
- Studying ancient civilizations and languages and mythologies, all totally appealing, all very rare to see in anyone at all, let alone in abundance and in someone so young, as in this self-labelled doctoral student in ancient history. Bard Diary Entry
- In 1907 he was appointed Camden Professor of Ancient History with an official fellowship at Brasenose College.
- Its very imperfection is powerful testimony of its ancient history, a history of step-by-step change rather than of deliberate design.
- It should all be so much ancient history. Times, Sunday Times
- When I took it out of the drawer last week it looked like a wonderful relic of very ancient history. Times, Sunday Times
- The world governing body dismissed it as ancient history. Times, Sunday Times
- It should all be so much ancient history. Times, Sunday Times
- The best critical writers on ancient history have agreed not to throw away the cosmogony and the hierology of Greece. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
- But my tale of ancient history was less than a generation old.