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