noun

• The region around the Mediterranean and the Near East before the fall of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476.

  ‘cuneiform was used throughout much of the ancient world’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Just why hunters and gatherers in this region of the ancient world turned to agriculture is difficult to say.’
  • ‘A country known in the ancient world as Mesopotamia, it became part of the Ottoman Empire in 1638.’
  • ‘In the ancient world, the region of Tyre and Sidon was the capital of the purple dye industry.’
  • ‘In the ancient world, the sacred and profane were inextricably intertwined.’
  • ‘In the ancient world, the sense of identity or selfhood was closely linked to the place of humans in the cosmos.’
  • ‘But to apply such criteria to the ancient world is, of course, to use language which is both very modern and highly contested.’
  • ‘Of all the cultural mysteries passed down from the ancient world, none beguiles us more than that of the Great Pyramid of Ancient Egypt.’
  • ‘But unfortunately, it is a goal that cannot be achieved for a particular battle in the ancient world.’
  • ‘When we think of the ancient world, we may perhaps think of the Hebrews, Greeks and Romans.’
  • ‘Archaeologists have used ground-penetrating geophysics to map out the greatest harbour of the ancient world.’
  • ‘Hume argued that slave populations in the ancient world were incapable of a positive natural rate of increase.’
  • ‘The origin of money in the form of coins in the ancient world is contested.’
  • ‘However, the study of dress in the ancient world has been shamefully undervalued.’
  • ‘The Greeks considered the Persians the evil empire of the ancient world, says John Spurling.’
  • ‘It is also present in Yellowstone Park in a continent unknown to the ancient world.’
  • ‘Some of you might remember a venerable institution from the ancient world called the Temple of Ishtar.’
  • ‘It was one of the most beautiful cities of the ancient world up to the time it was destroyed by the Carthaginians in 406 BC.’
  • ‘With these resources Sardis became a centre of trade and industry in the ancient world.’
  • ‘How Petra never became the eighth wonder of the ancient world will forever remain a mystery.’
  • ‘Such custom was what kept the ancient world from descending into anarchy.’