One of the things she most appreciated about Hadestown was the ancientness of the myth.
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In spite of the fact that he was a Londoner, his mind and his heart were much preoccupied by the idea of Wales, its ancientness, its inexhaustible mythic appeal.
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It's possible to speculate about the ancientness of this cosmological concept, but it may be inappropriate to trace back the Germanic terminology in common Indo-European.
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Visiting Norfolk aagin after a number of years overseas in a very different setting, I loved the feeling of ancientness, in the very fabric of the buildings and the ground I walked on.
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Ancient history is the study of the written past from the beginning of recorded human history in the Old World to the Early Middle Ages in Europe.