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• n  the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe
• n  extreme oldness
• n  an artifact surviving from the past

• 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 .

• ancientness

News & Articles

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• Historical Society Holding Huge Yard Sale To Rebuild Rocklin’s First Firehouse
  The Rocklin Historical Society is holding one of the city's largest yard sales to raise money towards creating a piece of antiquity for years to come.
  June 21, 2013 - CBS Sacramento
• 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

Quotes

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• 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.