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IPA transcription: [æn'tɪkwətiz]
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Noun
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the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe
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extreme oldness
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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.