ancient times
Civilization's early chapters
Ancient times refers to the distant past, especially the era of early civilizations like Egypt, Greece, and Rome—roughly from the beginning of recorded history to the fall of Rome in the 5th century.
The phrase often carries a sense of vast temporal distance: In ancient times, people navigated by the stars.
Used loosely, it can mean any period that feels impossibly long ago.
- AssyriansAncient Mesopotamian empire builders
- cuneiform tabletsWedge-marked ancient slabs
- stone tabletsInscribed rock slabs
- BabyloniansAncient Mesopotamian civilization
- hieroglyphicsSymbolic picture-based writing
Bronze Age · Mesopotamia · Sumerians · Zeus · Minoans · Akkadian · Mycenaeans · Gilgamesh · prehistoric · Fertile Crescent · toga party · Sanskrit · lost civilizations · temple ruins · pyramids · oracle bones · Iron Age · Ra
- early historygenesis, origin, beginning, prehistoric age, bronze age
- historypast events, historian, epochs, era, epoch
- pastago, before, once, previously, prior
- erasera, epoch, age, bronze age, period
- historical erasStone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Middle Ages, Renaissance
- Prehistoric Timesprehistory, Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, ice age
ancient timesmodern times
The contemporary era
contemporary times · the present · today · modern age · postmodernity
time, ancient, antique, times, ancestor, ancestry, timely, ancestral, antiquity