Scientists still disagree, but new research places an ancient date on when the gold welled up from the earth's interior: three billion years ago.

It is a firm, well built stone edifice of ancient date".

The figures were far simpler than those of temple murals, which argued perhaps for a more ancient date.

Their calamities were of ancient date and they knew them to be irremediable.

These offices are of very ancient date, and many of them were probably in origin proper to individual saints.

Much more than ancient dates are at stake in this debate, which has increasingly preoccupied archeologists over the last 20 years.

That it is of a remotely ancient date cannot be doubted.

"It is quite impossible to have so ancient a date for Meztorien ruins."

This depends on where the astronomical observations used to calculate ancient Egyptian dates were made.

(a) It has all the appearance of being of ancient date.