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the long-dead civilizations that still draw your borders, write your laws, and haunt your dreams
means The distant past, especially the era of the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome, or an object surviving from that time.
from From Latin antiquus, "old, former, ancient," itself built on ante, "before" — so an antiquity is literally a thing that comes before. It reached English through Old French antiquite, and the sense of "a relic of the ancient world" follows naturally from the sense of "great age."
- concrete recipe
- Roman concrete self-heals and outlasts modern mixes
- lost library
- Alexandria's burning erased centuries of irreplaceable knowledge
- ancient battery
- The Baghdad jar may have generated electric current
- computing machine
- The Antikythera device tracked planets two millennia early
- working roads
- Roman roads still underlie European highways today
roman empire — lasted from 27 bce to 476 ce in western europe, defining classical civilization
ancient egypt — 3100 bce to 30 bce, built the pyramids and dominated the nile valley
classical greece — 5th-4th century bce athens produced democracy, philosophy, and the parthenon