Antiquity (noun) and ancient (adjective of antiquity, or obsolete noun for an old person) may refer to:

• any period before the Middle Ages (476–1453), but still within the period of Western civilization-based human history or prehistory. The term is most often used of Classical antiquity, the classical civilizations of the Mediterranean, especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.
• "Ancient history" generally, and may be used of any historical period before the Middle Ages
  • Ancient Near East
  • Late Antiquity is used of the period between classical antiquity and the Middle Ages
  • African Antiquity
  • Ancient Iran (Persia)
  • Ancient China
  • Ancient Egypt
  • Ancient Greece
  • Ancient India (disambiguation)
  • Ancient Israel and Judah
  • Ancient Japan
  • Ancient Rome
  • Ancient languages
  • Ancient music
• Antiquities, the term—almost always in the plural in modern usage, referring to objects or artifacts surviving from ancient cultures.