Antiquity

Antiquity (noun) and ancient (adjective of antiquity, or obsolete noun for an old person) may refer to:

• any period before the Middle Ages (476–1453), but still within the period of Western civilization-based human history or prehistory. The term is most often used of Classical antiquity, the classical civilizations of the Mediterranean, especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.
• "Ancient history" generally, and may be used of any historical period before the Middle Ages
  • Ancient Near East
  • Late Antiquity is used of the period between classical antiquity and the Middle Ages
  • African Antiquity
  • Ancient Iran (Persia)
  • Ancient China
  • Ancient Egypt
  • Ancient Greece
  • Ancient India (disambiguation)
  • Ancient Israel and Judah
  • Ancient Japan
  • Ancient Rome
  • Ancient languages
  • Ancient music
• Antiquities, the term—almost always in the plural in modern usage, referring to objects or artifacts surviving from ancient cultures.

as a proper name

• Antiquity, Ohio, a community in the United States
• Antiquity (whisky), a brand of Indian whisky
• Antiquity (journal), a quarterly journal of archaeological research
• Ancients (art group), a group of English artists in the 1820s and 30s
• Ancient (band), a melodic black metal band from Norway
• Ancient (company), a Japanese software developer
• Ancient (album), an album by Kitarō

in popular culture:

• Antiquity (album) a 1975 album by Jackie McLean and Michael Carvin
• The Antique (film), a film starring Olu Jacobs and Bimbo Akintola
• Antiquities (Magic: The Gathering) an expansion to the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game
• Ancient (Stargate), a race who built the Stargates in the Stargate universe
• Ancient (Traveller), a mysterious race that once dominated the galaxy in the Traveller role-playing game
• Ancients (Eternal Darkness), a god-like race in Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
• Ancients (Legacy of Kain), a race in the Legacy of Kain games
• Ancients, an advanced species in the FreeSpace space simulation computer game series
• Ancients, a race in the Farscape TV series
• Ancients, a variety of creatures and structures in Defense of the Ancients
• Ancients or Cetra in Final Fantasy VII
• The Ancients, a race of highly advanced worldcrafters in the Might and Magic universe

See also

• Age (disambiguation)
• Eon (disambiguation)
• Ancien (disambiguation)
• Orders of magnitude (time)
• Old age
• senescence