antiquity
Era long gone
Antiquity refers to the ancient past, especially the period of Greek and Roman civilization before the Middle Ages.
A work from that era is an antiquity; in the plural, antiquities are ancient artifacts or relics: The museum's collection of Egyptian antiquities.
The word also denotes great age or ancientness: a castle of considerable antiquity.
These traditions stretch back into antiquity.
Preserved ancient object
- potteryFired clay objects
- vaseOrnamental container for flowers
- amuletWorn protective token
- coinageInvented term or currency
papyrus · manuscript · statuette · tablet · sarcophagus · jewelry · stele · scroll
Belonging to earlier times
- primordialExisting from the start
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- bygoneOf earlier times
- ancestralOf one's forebears
venerable · antediluvian · time-honored · age-old · hoary · ancientness · classical · pre-modern
Distinct historical period
- periodPunctuation ending sentences
- Bronze AgeEarly metalworking civilization period
- Iron AgePost-bronze historical period
- Stone AgeEra of knapped tools
Neolithic · Paleolithic · Mesolithic · Hellenistic · Roman · Egyptian · Mesopotamian · Sumerian
Act of unearthing
- digUnearth by shoveling
- siteDesignated location
- stratigraphyStudy of rock layers
- carbon-datingIsotope-based age measurement
ceramics · numismatics · epigraphy · trench · fieldwork · settlement · potsherd · artifact
Domain under unified control
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
- kingdomMonarch's ruled territory
- polisGreek sovereign urban center
- city-stateSelf-governing urban territory
republic · pharaoh · emperor · culture · society · polity · tribe · chiefdom
Balkan peninsula nation
- RomeItaly's capital city
- AthensGreece's capital city
- SpartaAncient Greek warrior state
- HomerAncient Greek epic composer
Plato · Aristotle · Socrates · mythology · philosophy · democracy · Hellenistic · stoicism
What's passed down
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- traditionCustom passed through generations
patrimony · preservation · conservation · descendants · forebears · genealogy · birthright · cultural heritage
Lasting without end
- enduringPersisting through time
- agelessWithout apparent deterioration
- everlastingLasting for all time
- immortalCannot die
perennial · abiding · unchanging · classic · permanent · imperishable · undying · deathless
relic
Preserved ancient object
coinage · papyrus · manuscript · statuette · tablet · sarcophagus · jewelry · stele · scroll · amphora
archaic
Belonging to earlier times
- primordialExisting from the start
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- bygoneOf earlier times
ancestral · venerable · antediluvian · time-honored · age-old · hoary · ancientness · classical · pre-modern · olden
epoch
Distinct historical period
- periodPunctuation ending sentences
- Bronze AgeEarly metalworking civilization period
- Iron AgePost-bronze historical period
Stone Age · Neolithic · Paleolithic · Mesolithic · Hellenistic · Roman · Egyptian · Mesopotamian · Sumerian · Assyrian
excavation
Act of unearthing
- digUnearth by shoveling
- siteDesignated location
- stratigraphyStudy of rock layers
carbon-dating · ceramics · numismatics · epigraphy · trench · fieldwork · settlement · potsherd · artifact · burial
empire
Domain under unified control
city-state · republic · pharaoh · emperor · culture · society · polity · tribe · chiefdom · satrap
Greece
Balkan peninsula nation
Homer · Plato · Aristotle · Socrates · mythology · philosophy · democracy · Hellenistic · stoicism · oracle
legacy
What's passed down
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- ancestryFamily line of descent
tradition · patrimony · preservation · conservation · descendants · forebears · genealogy · birthright · cultural heritage · restoration
eternal
Lasting without end
- enduringPersisting through time
- agelessWithout apparent deterioration
- everlastingLasting for all time
immortal · perennial · abiding · unchanging · classic · permanent · imperishable · undying · deathless · lasting
- historypast events, historian, epochs, era, epoch
- timesecond, minute, hour, day, seconds
- pastago, before, once, previously, prior
- Ancient Greece & RomeGreek myths, Roman myths, mythology, muses, Apollo
- ancient worldpyramids, pyramid, Athens, Sparta, Zeus
- artifactspottery shards, knives, masks, pottery, inscriptions
antiquitymodernity
Being of present times
the present · modern times · contemporaneity · today · modern era
antiquitynewness
State of being recent
novelty · recentness · freshness · modernness · currentness
- classical antiquityGreco-Roman historical period
- Egyptian antiquitiesAncient Nile Valley artifacts
- Greek antiquitiesAncient objects from Greece
- Greek antiquityAncient Hellenic period
- antiquities tradeBuying and selling ancient artifacts