ancient times

“Experts tracing how language has evolved from ancient times to the present have concluded there is a taboo on the fly agaric – everyone talks about the apple but that’s a new-fangled innovation that only appeared in the 18th century. There wasn’t an apple in the Bible originally, it was just the forbidden fruit. Perhaps it was more comfortable to think of them as apples.”

Dr Litherland's team has theorised that this tomb was flooded about six years after the burial and so the contents could have been moved to another location during ancient times.

Milchick launches into a fable of “ancient times” when the king of Sweden would disguise himself in an old gray robe and walk among his people to get a sense of their grievances.

Toddy, for instance — a sweet, refreshing, vinegar-smelling drink made from the sap of palm trees in southern India — has been known since ancient times.

During the ancient times of Rubio’s peak a decade ago, he was seen as Republican hawks’ standard-bearer standing athwart the burgeoning “isolationism” of Rand Paul and the “libertarian moment.”