ancient culture
Long-dead society's ways
Ancient culture refers to the civilization, customs, beliefs, and practices of peoples from the distant past—typically before the medieval period.
The phrase usually evokes societies like those of Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, or Mesopotamia: The museum's exhibit explored ancient culture along the Nile.
It can describe both specific civilizations and a general contrast with modern ways of life: She studied how ancient culture shaped contemporary religious practices.
- sun worshipReligious devotion to daystar
- sacred ritualsFormalized acts of worship
- stone tabletsInscribed rock slabs
- MesopotamiaTigris-Euphrates river region
- Indus ValleyAncient South Asian river culture
burial mounds · Phoenician alphabet · Pantheon · Pyramids · Aztec Empire · Sanskrit · Classical Greece · Sumerians · clay vessels · Roman Empire · Bronze Age · cave paintings · oral tradition · Mayan civilization · lost civilizations · Shinto · Terracotta Army · Silk Road
- culturessubculture, multicultural, counterculture, underground, bohemian
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