Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly...

Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly...

In modern historiography, ancient Rome encompasses the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC, the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC), Roman...

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa. It was concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River, situated in the place that...

Ancient Greece (Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries...

Ancient Aliens is an American television series produced by Prometheus Entertainment that explores the pseudoscientific hypothesis of ancient astronauts...

ancient language is any language originating in times that may be referred to as ancient. There are no formal criteria for deeming a language ancient...

Ancient astronauts (or ancient aliens) refer to a pseudoscientific set of beliefs that hold that intelligent extraterrestrial beings visited Earth and...

Greek: Μακεδονία), also called Macedon (/ˈmæsɪdɒn/ MASS-ih-don), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, which later became...

Africa was known as Aethiopia. The name is based on the ethnonym Libu (Ancient Greek: Λίβυες Líbyes, Latin: Libyes). The name Libya (in use since 1934...

The ancient universities are British and Irish medieval universities and early modern universities founded before the year 1600. Four of these are located...

"Pyramid" in the context of ancient architecture primarily refers to the Egyptian pyramids (see List of Egyptian pyramids). Various other structures built...

Ancient literature comprises religious and scientific documents, tales, poetry and plays, royal edicts and declarations, and other forms of writing that...

Ancient Carthage (/ˈkɑːrθɪdʒ/ KAR-thij; Punic: 𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤟𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕, lit. 'New City') was an ancient Semitic civilisation based in North Africa. Initially...

Corinth is located approximately 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) northeast of the ancient ruins. Since 1896, systematic archaeological investigations of the Corinth...

The Macedonians (Greek: Μακεδόνες, Makedónes) were an ancient tribe that lived on the alluvial plain around the rivers Haliacmon and lower Axios in the...

Ancient Futures: Lessons from Ladakh for a Globalizing World, originally published with the subtitle Learning From Ladakh, is a book by Helena Norberg-Hodge...

During the growth of the ancient civilizations, ancient technology was the result from advances in engineering in ancient times. These advances in the...

Ancient art refers to the many types of art produced by the advanced cultures of ancient societies with different forms of writing, such as those of ancient...

Ancient warfare is war that was conducted from the beginning of recorded history to the end of the ancient period. The difference between prehistoric and...

East Ancient Mesopotamian religion Ancient Egyptian religion Historical Vedic religion Ancient Greek religion Religion in ancient Rome Ancient Celtic...

Ancient DNA (aDNA) is DNA isolated from ancient specimens. Due to degradation processes (including cross-linking, deamination and fragmentation) ancient...

An ancient monument can refer to any early or historical manmade structure and/or architecture. Certain ancient monuments are of cultural importance for...

common guillemot. Ancient murrelets are called "ancient" because they have grey on the back like a shawl, as worn by the elderly. The ancient murrelet was...

In the United Kingdom, ancient woodland is that which has existed continuously since 1600 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (or 1750 in Scotland)...

Ancient music refers to the musical cultures and practices that developed in the literate civilizations of the ancient world, succeeding the music of prehistoric...

Ancient Chinese may refer to: The people—particularly Han people—of ancient China Old Chinese or Archaic Chinese, the ancient form of spoken Chinese Classical...

Ancient grains is a marketing term used to describe a category of grains and pseudocereals that are purported to have been minimally changed by selective...

The ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, southeast...

Ancient Apocalypse is a 2022 Netflix series, where the British writer Graham Hancock presents his pseudoarchaeological theories about the alleged existence...