Ancient (disambiguation)

Ancient or ancients may refer to:

People or things from antiquity:

• Ancient history, from the beginning of writing to the Middle Ages
• Prehistory, from the use of the first stone tools until the beginning of writing

It may also refer to:

As a proper name

• Ancient (band), a melodic black metal musical group
• Ancient (company), a Japanese software developer
• Ancients (art group), a group of English artists in the 1820s and 1830s
• Ancient (album), a 2001 album by Kitarō

In fiction

• 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 and Dota 2
• Ancients or Cetra in Final Fantasy VII
• The Ancients, a race of highly advanced worldcrafters in the Might and Magic universe

Other

• A corrupt form of the military rank of ensign used during the 16th century in Britain

See also

• Antiquity (disambiguation)
• Ancien (disambiguation)
• List of time periods
• Timeline of ancient history