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