It is an ancient shrine where both tribal and Brahminical system of worship are followed.

It was one of the most ancient Roman shrines.

This ancient shrine is old to have been mentioned in the Kojiki.

In 1880, the government allotted funds for the preservation of ancient shrines and temples.

Many ancient wooden shrines and mills, however, still survive in the neighborhood.

But of that there was no sign; only the one, it appeared, had come through the ages with this ancient shrine.

All the ancient shrines in the country, which had been enclaves of paganism, were destroyed.

Were those tumbled stones all that remained of an ancient shrine?

This ancient Shinto shrine is torn down and rebuilt every twenty years.

We're not sitting atop an ancient shrine to Cthulhu, after all.