title: Ancient (disambiguation)
text: # Ancient (disambiguation)
  
  Ancient or ancients may refer to:
  
  People or things from antiquity:
  
  * Ancient history, from the beginning of writing to the Middle Ages
  * Prehistory, from the use of the first stone tools until the beginning of writing
  
  It may also refer to:
  
  ## As a proper name
  
  * Ancient (band), a melodic black metal musical group
  * Ancient (company), a Japanese software developer
  * Ancients (art group), a group of English artists in the 1820s and 1830s
  * Ancient (album), a 2001 album by Kitarō
  
  ## In fiction
  
  * Ancient (Stargate), a race who built the Stargates in the Stargate 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 TV series
  * Ancients, a variety of creatures and structures in Defense of the Ancients and Dota 2
  * Ancients or Cetra in Final Fantasy VII
  * The Ancients, a race of highly advanced worldcrafters in the Might and Magic universe
  
  ## Other
  
  * A corrupt form of the military rank of ensign used during the 16th century in Britain
  