Science textbooks,biographies and newspaper articles
The correct option is this: WHILE THE NAMES OF BOTH ANCIENT AND MODERN CIVILIZATION MAY BE BEAUTIFUL, WHATEVER OF VALUE ANY OF THEM HAVE DONE MAY BE LOST FOREVER.
The author in the above passage refers to the ancient civilization in order to pass across the message that, just as those civilization disappear with nothing left of them, the modern civilization will also disappear one day. The depth of history is deep enough to swallow up both the past and the present.
