The ancient world was fairly modern for its time.

...it seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry for those who knew only one and not the other. It was better, she thought, to be able to select from the whole menu of human achievements than to be bound within one narrow range.

You can't get the bottleneck time or the bottleneck size without both modern and ancient DNA.

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

The world will go on with or without humanity.