Collocations for ancient - adj.

be, look

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
incredibly
positively
The man looked positively ancient.

Ancient is used with these nouns:
ancestor, art, belief, building, castle, city, civilization, craft, culture, curse, custom, dynasty, empire, enemy, festival, forest, goddess, Greek, Hebrew, heritage, historian, history, homeland, kingdom, language, legend, magic, manor, manuscript, monastery, monument, mystery, myth, mythology, nation, origin, palace, past, philosopher, philosophy, prophecy, relic, religion, remains, remedy, ritual, rivalry, ruin, scripture, sculpture, settlement, shrine, site, statue, superstition, symbol, tablet, teaching, temple, text, time, tower, town, track, tradition, treasure, truth, university, village, warrior, wisdom, wood, world, writer, writing