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IPA transcription: [æn'tɪkwətiz]

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Noun

  • the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe

  • extreme oldness

  • an artifact surviving from the past

Usage examples

  • For example, Josephus employed scribes to copy his Antiquities of the Jews.
  • After independence, Pittakis became Greece's first General Keeper of Antiquities.
  • Prose works on antiquities and history are also attributed to him.
  • The archaeologists have raised the study of antiquities to the rank of a science.
  • The "Popular Antiquities" were further revised and enlarged by Sir Henry Ellis.
  • The city and its environs abound in antiquities, especially inscriptions.
  • He also collected coins, 'natural curiosities,' inscriptions, antiquities and rare English books and manuscripts.
  • It has a few antiquities and some curious Christian catacombs.
  • The Iraqi Tourism and Antiquities Ministry launched the related investigation on the same day.
  • He appears in Josephus's work Antiquities of the Jews.