antiquity

nouns

the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe
antiquity
is derived from
antique
is a part of
the aggregate of past events
"a critical time in the school's history"
history
is a type of (narrower)
an era of history having some distinctive feature
"we live in a litigious age"
age, historic period
extreme oldness
ancientness, antiquity
is derived from
antique
an artifact surviving from the past
antiquity
is derived from
antique
is a type of (narrower)
a man-made object taken as a whole
artefact, artifact