Historical clue formulations

• Primeval — 2023-02-01
• Long gone — 2022-06-11
• Like the Aramaic language — 2016-09-29
• Like the Mesopotamian people — 2016-02-21
• Like the Dead Sea Scrolls — 2015-03-10
• With 42-Across, subject of the poem that contains the line 17-/65-Across — 2013-05-07
• Person of olden times — 2010-01-28
• Socrates or Pythagoras, e.g. — 2008-10-05
• With 31-Across, literary character "whose beard with age is hoar" — 2005-05-06
• As old as the hills — 2004-10-13
• Of interest to archaeologists — 2004-04-14