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Bounding around the stage shirtless with a disconcerting lope that suggests something’s off with his hip, he simultaneously owns his ancientness and defies it.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2023

The show’s title characters also appear on four amphora that were made last year but are roughly crafted to give an illusion of ancientness.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023

Many say the knowledge of their craft has been passed down to them by their elders, and they revere the ancientness of the practice, even if it sometimes earns them a sideward glance.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2021

Much of the magic of its ancientness and its continuity is lost forever.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2019

And from within she seems not less complete, a thing wholly ancient, delightful, with a picturesque and yet homely beauty that is the child of ancientness.

From England of My Heart : Spring by Hutton, Edward