I can not reproduce your problem:
sage: n = 2^160
sage: n
1461501637330902918203684832716283019655932542976
sage: n.parent()
Integer Ring
sage: n in ZZ
True
Could you please give us some informations so that someone can try to reproduce your problem:
- which version of Sage did you use ?
- which OS ?
- did you install Sage from the binaries, and which ones ?
- did you compile Sage yourself ?
- which notebook did you use (Sage notebook or jupyter notebook) ?
- did you use the command line ?
- which commands did you type precisely to get the error ?
- which error message did you get ?
- ... ?