Ancient history is the history from the History of writing until the Early Middle Ages in Europe, the Qin Dynasty in China, the Chola Empire in India, and some less defined point in the rest of the world .... " generally, and may be used of any historical period before the Middle Ages; such as in Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was an Ancient history civilization in eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile in what is now the modern nation of Egypt.... , Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is the area of the Tigris-Euphrates river system, along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely corresponding to modern Iraq, as well as some parts of northeastern Syria, some parts of southeastern Turkey, and some parts of the Khuzestan Province of southwestern Iran.... , or other early civilizations of the Near East
Ancient Near East
The Ancient Near East refers to early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia , Fars Province, Elam and Medes , Anatolia , the Levant , and Ancient Egypt, from the rise of Sumer in the 4th millennium BCE until the region's conquest by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BCE, or covering both th... . It is less commonly used in reference to civilizations of the Far East
Far East
The Far East is a term current in English language to refer to the countries of East Asia. The term is often expanded to also include Southeast Asia and South Asia, for economic and cultural reasons, for example because Buddhism is common to East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia.... .
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.... , more specifically; such as of Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece
The term Ancient Greece refers to the period of History of Greece lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1100 BC and the Dorian invasion, to 146 BC and the Roman Republic conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth .... and Ancient Rome
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.... .
Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's Crisis of the Third Century to the Islamic conquests and the re-organization of the Byzantine Empire under... is used of the period between classical antiquity and the Middle Ages
Antiquities, nearly always used in the plural in this sense, is a term for objects from ancient history, especially the civilizations of the Mediterranean: the Classical antiquity of Greece and Rome, Ancient Egypt and the other Ancient Near Eastern cultures.... , the term—almost always in the plural in modern usage, referring to objects surviving from ancient cultures
In archaeology, an artifact or artefact is any object made or modified by a human archaeological culture, and often one later recovered by some archaeological endeavor.... , alternatively referred to as "antiquities"
Antiquity is one of the world's leading learned journals dedicated to the subject of archaeology.It is owned by a registered charity, The Antiquity Trust which was founded by the archaeologist O.... is a quarterly journal of archaeological research
Antiquities was the fifth Magic: The Gathering set and the second expert level expansion set. It was the first set to have an original backstory and explore the mythos of the Magic universe .... an expansion to the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game
