Ricci flow solutions that are defined for all negative times, are called ancient, and have a special significance since they arise as blowup limits at singularities of the flow. Several instances in the literature suggest that ancient solutions to the Ricci flow have a higher degree of symmetry than initially assumed. We show that under certain assumptions, collapsed ancient solutions to the Ricci flow on homogeneous spaces, have additional toral symmetry. (Joint work with F. Pediconi and S. Sbiti.)