Ancient (disambiguation)

Ancient may refer to:

• Ancient history — the span of recorded history starting roughly 5,000–5,500 years ago.
• Ancient (band) — the progressive Black Metal musical group.
• Ancient (video games) — the Japanese software developer (see also: Yuzo Koshiro).
• Ancient — used to refer to a standard-bearer or ensign in medieval times, appearing in texts such as Shakespeare's Othello.

Ancients may refer to:

• Ancients (art group) — a group of English artists in the 1820s and 30s who were influenced by William Blake and served as a model for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
• Ancients — a name often used in science fiction, fantasy, and related genres for ancient races who are usually mysterious, long-gone and extremely advanced, only leaving behind scattered artifacts.
  • Ancient (Stargate) — a name given to the Alterans, the race who built, among other things, the Stargates in the Stargate-universe.
  • Ancient (Traveller) — the mysterious race that once dominated the galaxy in the Traveller role-playing game.
  • Ancients — a name sometimes given to the Cetra from Final Fantasy VII
  • Ancients (Eternal Darkness) — a god-like race from Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
  • Ancients (Legacy of Kain) — a race from the Legacy of Kain games.
  • Ancients (Farscape) — the race responsible with implanting John Crichton with Wormhole knowledge in the Farscape TV series.
  • Ancients — an advanced species in the Freespace space simulation computer game series.

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