Antiquity
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, searchAntiquity or antiquities (noun) and ancient (adjective) may refer to:
- anything considered "very old", see
- Aeon The word aeon, also spelled eon or æon, originally means "life", and/or "being", though it then tended to mean "age", "forever" or "for eternity". It is a Latin transliteration from the koine Greek word ὁ αἰών , from the archaic αἰϝών (aiwon). In Homer it typically refers to life or
- Timeline of cosmological eras
- List of time periods The categorization of time into discrete named blocks is called periodization. This is a list of such named time periods as defined in various fields of study. Major categorization systems include cosmological , geological (concerning time periods in the origin and evolution of earth ) and historical (concerning time periods in the origin and
- Geological timescale The geologic time scale is a chronologic schema relating stratigraphy to time that is used by geologists, paleontologists and other earth scientists to describe the timing and relationships between events that have occurred during the history of the Earth. The table of geologic time spans presented here agrees with the dates and nomenclature
- Prehistory Prehistory is a term used to describe the period before recorded history. Paul Tournal originally coined the term Pré-historique in describing the finds he had made in the caves of southern France.[citation needed] It came into use in France in the 1830s to describe the time before writing, and the word "prehistoric" was introduced into
- "Ancient history Ancient history is the study of the written past from the beginning of recorded human history in the Old World to the Early Middle Ages in Europe" generally, and may be used of any historical period before the Middle Ages The Middle Ages is a period of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The period followed the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476, and preceded the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period in a three-period division of history: Classical, Medieval, and Modern. The term "Middle Ages" (medium aevum) was coined in
- Ancient Near East The Ancient Near East refers to early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia , ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Iran (Elam, Media, Parthia and Persia), Armenia, Anatolia (modern Turkey) and the Levant (modern Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Cyprus, and Crete). As such, it is a
- Late Antiquity Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the time of transition from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world. Precise boundaries for the period are a matter of debate, but noted historian of the period Peter Brown proposed a period between the second and eighth centuries is used of the period between classical antiquity and the Middle Ages
- African Antiquity
- Classical Antiquity Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world. It is the period in which Greek and Roman literature (such as Aeschylus, Ovid, Homer and others) flourished
- Ancient Iran (Persia)
- Ancient China Chinese civilization originated in various regional centers along both the Yellow River and the Yangtze River valleys in the Neolithic era, but the Yellow River is to be said as the Cradle of Chinese Civilization. The written history of China can be found as early as the Shang Dynasty . Oracle bones with ancient Chinese writing from the Shang
- Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. The civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh, and it developed over the next three millennia. Its history
- Ancient Greece Ancient Greece is the civilization belonging to the period of Greek history lasting from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to 146 BC and the Roman conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth. At the center of this time period is Classical Greece, which flourished during the 5th to 4th centuries BC, at first under Athenian
- Ancient India (disambiguation)
- Ancient Japan The history of Japan comprises the history of the islands of Japan and the Japanese people; spanning the ancient history of the region to the modern history of Japan as a nation state. The first known written reference to Japan is in the brief information given in Twenty-Four Histories, a collection of Chinese historical texts, in the 1st century
- Ancient Rome Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea, it became one of the largest empires in the ancient world
- Ancient languages
- Ancient music Ancient music is music that developed in literate cultures, replacing prehistoric music
- Antiquities Antiquities, nearly always used in the plural in this sense, is a term for objects from Antiquity, especially the civilizations of the Mediterranean: the Classical antiquity of Greece and Rome, Ancient Egypt and the other Ancient Near Eastern cultures. Artifacts from earlier periods such as the Mesolithic, and other civilizations from Asia and, the term—almost always in the plural in modern usage, referring to objects surviving from ancient cultures
- Artifact (archaeology) An artifact or artefact is any object made or modified by a human. In archaeology, an artifact is an object recovered by some archaeological endeavor, which may have a cultural interest. Examples include stone tools such as projectile points, pottery vessels, metal objects such as guns, and items of personal adornment such as buttons, jewellery, alternatively referred to as "antiquities"
- as a proper name
- Antiquity (journal) It is owned by a registered charity, The Antiquity Trust which was founded by the archaeologist O. G. S. Crawford in 1927 and counts Warwick Bray, Barry Cunliffe and Colin Renfrew amongst its trustees. Antiquity's current editor is Professor Martin Carver of the University of York. It publishes four editions a year with a worldwide topic coverage is a quarterly journal of archaeological research
- Ancients (art group) The Ancients , were a group of English artists who were brought together by their attraction to archaism in art, admiration for the work of William Blake, and espousal of Christian and traditional society values. They met in Blake's apartment, dubbed the "House of Interpreter" and at the home of Samuel Palmer in the Kent village of, a group of English artists in the 1820s and 30s
- Ancient (band), a melodic black metal musical group
- Ancient (company), a Japanese software developer
in popular culture:
- Antiquities (Magic: The Gathering) an expansion to the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game
- Ancient (Stargate) The Ancients are a humanoid race in the fictional Stargate universe. They are called "Ancients" in the Milky Way, but are also known as Lanteans or Ancestors in the Pegasus galaxy and as the Alterans in their home galaxy, and they sometimes call themselves Anqueetas in their language. In the series mythology, they are one of the most, a race who built the Stargates A Stargate is a fictional portal device that allows practical, rapid travel between two distant locations. This article deals with the Stargate devices of the Stargate franchise, which first appear in the 1994 Roland Emmerich film Stargate, and subsequently carried over to the television series Stargate SG-1 and its spin-offs. In these productions in the Stargate Stargate is a military science fiction franchise, initially conceived by Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin. The first film in the franchise was simply titled Stargate. It was originally released on October 28, 1994 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Carolco, and became a worldwide hit grossing nearly $200 million worldwide. Three years later, Canadian Brad 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 Farscape is an Australian-American science fiction television series filmed in Australia and produced for the Nine Network then for later seasons Sci-Fi Channel. The series was conceived by Rockne S. O'Bannon and produced by Jim Henson Productions and Hallmark Entertainment. The Jim Henson Company was largely responsible for the various alien TV series
- Ancients or Cetra in Final Fantasy VII
- The Ancients, a race of highly-advanced worldcrafters in the Might and Magic universe
See also
- Age (disambiguation)
- Eon (disambiguation)
- Ancien (disambiguation)
- Orders of magnitude (time) The pages linked in the right-hand column contain lists of times that are of the same order of magnitude . Rows in the table represent increasing powers of a thousand (3 orders of magnitude)
- Old age Old age consists of ages nearing or surpassing the average life span of human beings, and thus the end of the human life cycle. Euphemisms and terms for old people include seniors , senior citizens (British and American usage) and the elderly. As occurs with almost any definable group of humanity, some people will hold a prejudice against others
- senescence Senescence or biological aging is the change in the biology of an organism as it ages after its maturity. Such changes range from those affecting its cells and their function to that of the whole organism. There are a number of theories as to why senescence occurs, including ones that claim it is programmed by gene expression changes and that it
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Jerusalem Dispatch ... the Prime Minister's Office, administered by the Jerusalem Development Authority and implemented by the Antiquity Authority's Conservation Department. ... King Herod is welcome to visit his Palace FOXNews (blog)
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Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:19:49 GM
The Vedic Civilization can be dated as far back as 1000 years BC that means 12000 years from present.The evidence of this . antiquity. is found in the book by Dr.BGSidharth titled The Celestial Key To The Vedas
What's the difference between an antique and an antiquity?
Q. What's the difference between an antique and an antiquity?
Asked by Spook - Wed Jun 28 10:33:07 2006 - - 9 Answers - 1 Comments
A. The phrase "in antiquity" is usually used by historians and archaeologists to describe something which happened or was made in pre-biblical times. For example the sentence "the tombs of the Pharoes were robbed in antiquity" would denote that they were robbed in times contemporary to the burial, rather than indicating they were robbed in say, 1789 AD. An "antique" refers to something which is over 100 years old.
Answered by edsephiroth - Wed Jun 28 10:44:04 2006
Q. What's the difference between an antique and an antiquity?
Asked by Spook - Wed Jun 28 10:33:07 2006 - - 9 Answers - 1 Comments
A. The phrase "in antiquity" is usually used by historians and archaeologists to describe something which happened or was made in pre-biblical times. For example the sentence "the tombs of the Pharoes were robbed in antiquity" would denote that they were robbed in times contemporary to the burial, rather than indicating they were robbed in say, 1789 AD. An "antique" refers to something which is over 100 years old.
Answered by edsephiroth - Wed Jun 28 10:44:04 2006
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