Very quickly, however, Piltdown became a synonym for phony; and England's claim to antiquity was cut short by several hundred thousand years.
Plenty of archaeological sites date back that far, or nearly so, but scientists have found only about 50 skeletons of such antiquity, most of them fragmentary.
Russ roams into antiquity for some of his metaphors, characterizing Babette Bardot (featured player in Meyer's "Mondo Topless" and "Common Law Cabin") as "a blonde-tressed voluptua .
Heads up: The bust is making a comeback No matter where your gaze traveled at the recent High Point Furniture Market, it landed on a bust. Not the kind that comes in cup sizes, but the portraits sculpted since antiquity to memorialize the memorable or the wealthy.
June 21, 2013 - Daily Herald
What part of Colorado should be the 8th Wonder of the World? KUSA - Various lists of the Wonders of the World have been compiled from antiquity to the present day, to catalogue the world's most spectacular natural wonders and man-made structures.
June 17, 2013 - 9 News Denver
Pope Benedict XVI in guardian.co.uk Benedict said in his homily, and wondered aloud whether people have "imitated, perhaps inadvertently, the pagans of antiquity?"
Shirley MacLaine in CTV.ca I was so pleased to see that this kind of, I don't know, institutionalized antiquity can work,MacLaine said during a telephone interview from her home in New Mexico. "This whole project was a `heartback,' let's say, of going back in time...
David Atlee Phillips in International Herald Tribune It runs the risk of being viewed as an antiquity, instead of a living symbol of Armenian culture and spiritual life,said Phillips, executive director of The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, in New York City.