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 +[[Image:The Artist Moved by the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''[[The Artist's Despair Before the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins]]'' (1778-80) by [[Henry Fuseli]]]]
[[Image:Western face of the Greek Parthenon.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[1872]] [[photograph]] of the western face of the [[Greek]] [[Parthenon]]]] [[Image:Western face of the Greek Parthenon.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[1872]] [[photograph]] of the western face of the [[Greek]] [[Parthenon]]]]
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-:''[[Ancient art]], [[Ancient literature]]'' 
-:''The times before [[writing]] belong either to [[protohistory]] or to [[prehistory]].'' 
-: ''"Ancient" redirects here. For other uses, see [[Antiquity]]. The times before [[writing]] belong either to [[protohistory]] or to [[prehistory]].'' 
'''Ancient history''' is the [[history|study of the written past]] from the beginning of [[history of writing|recorded human history]] in the [[Old World]] to the [[Early Middle Ages]] in Europe. '''Ancient history''' is the [[history|study of the written past]] from the beginning of [[history of writing|recorded human history]] in the [[Old World]] to the [[Early Middle Ages]] in Europe.
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The term [[classical antiquity]] is often used to refer to ancient history since the beginning of recorded Greek history in 776 BC (First [[Olympiad]]). This roughly coincides with the traditional date of the founding of Rome in 753 BC, the beginning of the history of [[ancient Rome]], and the beginning of the [[Archaic Greece|Archaic period]] in [[Ancient Greece]]. Although the ending date of ancient history is disputed, [[Western culture|Western]] scholars use the [[fall of the Western Roman Empire]] in [[Anno Domini|AD]] 476, the death of the emperor [[Justinian I]], the coming of [[Islam]] or the rise of [[Charlemagne]] as the end of ancient and Classical European history. The term [[classical antiquity]] is often used to refer to ancient history since the beginning of recorded Greek history in 776 BC (First [[Olympiad]]). This roughly coincides with the traditional date of the founding of Rome in 753 BC, the beginning of the history of [[ancient Rome]], and the beginning of the [[Archaic Greece|Archaic period]] in [[Ancient Greece]]. Although the ending date of ancient history is disputed, [[Western culture|Western]] scholars use the [[fall of the Western Roman Empire]] in [[Anno Domini|AD]] 476, the death of the emperor [[Justinian I]], the coming of [[Islam]] or the rise of [[Charlemagne]] as the end of ancient and Classical European history.
- +==Outline==
-In [[India]], the period includes the [[Middle kingdoms of India|period of the Middle Kingdoms]], and in [[China]] the time up to the [[Qin Dynasty]] is included.+* [[Outline of classical studies]]
 +** [[Outline of ancient Egypt]]
 +** [[Outline of ancient Greece]]
 +** [[Outline of ancient Rome]]
 +* [[Timeline of ancient history]]
==See also== ==See also==
-*[[Timeline of ancient history]]+* [[Antiquity]]
 +* [[Ancient art]]
 +* [[Ancient literature]]
* [[Classics]] * [[Classics]]
 +* [[Classical Antiquity]]
* [[Historiography]] * [[Historiography]]
* [[Human evolution]] * [[Human evolution]]
* [[Prehistoric man]] * [[Prehistoric man]]
-* [[Pandurang Vaman Kane]] 
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-==See also== 
* [[Prehistory]] * [[Prehistory]]
-* [[Human evolution]]+* [[Protohistory]]
-* [[Prehistoric man]]+
-* [[Classical Antiquity]]+
-* [[Classics]]+
* [[Historiography]] * [[Historiography]]
-==See also== 
-* [[Outline of classical studies]] 
-** [[Outline of ancient Egypt]] 
-** [[Outline of ancient Greece]] 
-** [[Outline of ancient Rome]] 
-* [[Timeline of ancient history]] 
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Ancient history is the study of the written past from the beginning of recorded human history in the Old World to the Early Middle Ages in Europe.

The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, with Cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of writing, from the protoliterate period around the 30th century BC. This is the beginning of history, as opposed to prehistory, according to the definition used by most historians.

The term classical antiquity is often used to refer to ancient history since the beginning of recorded Greek history in 776 BC (First Olympiad). This roughly coincides with the traditional date of the founding of Rome in 753 BC, the beginning of the history of ancient Rome, and the beginning of the Archaic period in Ancient Greece. Although the ending date of ancient history is disputed, Western scholars use the fall of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476, the death of the emperor Justinian I, the coming of Islam or the rise of Charlemagne as the end of ancient and Classical European history.

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