Antiquity

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Antiquity or antiquities (noun) and ancient (adjective) may refer to:

• anything considered "very old", see
  • Aeon
  • Timeline of cosmological eras
  • list of time periods
  • geological timescale
  • Prehistory
• "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
  • Classical Antiquity
  • Ancient China
  • Ancient Egypt
  • Ancient Greece
  • Ancient India (disambiguation)
  • Ancient Japan
  • Ancient Rome
  • Ancient languages
  • Ancient music
• Antiquities, the term—almost always in the plural in modern usage, referring to objects surviving from ancient cultures
  • Artifact (archaeology), alternatively referred to as "antiquities"

as a proper name

• Antiquity (journal) is 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 musical group
• Ancient (company), a Japanese software developer

in popular culture:

• 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 or Cetra in Final Fantasy VII
• The Ancients, a race of highly-advanced worldcrafters in the Might and Magic universe

[edit] See also

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

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