The series is set in a fictional galaxy as part of an alternative universe, where planets are overseen by a powerful race of space-travelers known as Ancients.

Sheltem establishes himself on a series of flat worlds known as nacelles ( which are implied to be giant spaceships ) and Corak, a second guardian and creation of the Ancients, with the assistance of the player characters, pursues him across the Void.

The month Anthesterion is named after the festival, not vice versa, and since the month's name is not restricted to the Attic calendar, but was known also in Ionia, it was considered by the Ancients that the festival predates the Ionian colonisation, making it the oldest datable part of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Adam John Hart-Davis ( born 4 July 1943 ) is an English polymath, comprising scientist, author, photographer, historian and broadcaster, well known in the UK for presenting the BBC television series Local Heroes and What the Romans Did for Us, the latter spawning several spin-off series involving the Victorians, the Tudors, the Stuarts, and the Ancients.

" Dewsbury is also referenced in the 1991 single " It's Grim Up North " by the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu ( also known as The KLF ).

Deryck Guyler was a well known wargamer, and was a founding member of the Society of Ancients, a group of wargamers specialising in the classical era.

There Palmer also associated with the group of Blake-influenced artists known as The Ancients ( including George Richmond and Edward Calvert ).

They are called " Ancients " in the Milky Way, but are also known as Lanteans or Ancestors in the Pegasus galaxy and as the Alterans in their home galaxy, and they sometimes call themselves Anquietas in their language.

At the time, those who were later to be known as the Ori and the Ancients were not distinguished from each other, and lived in one society.

The Ancients are well known for their fierce belief in free will.

As punishment for breaking this law, the Ancients have been known to wipe out entire civilizations and abandon the one responsible to correct the grave mistakes caused by one of their people.

The Stargates were created millions of years ago by an alien civilization known as the Ancients ; their modern history begins when Egyptologist Daniel Jackson deciphers their workings in the Stargate film.

Beyond the forest is the Forgotten City, the capital of Cetra ( also known as the Ancients ) civilization.

To prove it, he takes Staleek on board Farscape One through a wormhole to meet the alien known as Einstein, a member of the Ancients, the race that implanted the knowledge in Crichton's mind.

Based on the ancient Greek accounts of the Lost City of Atlantis, according to the mythology of the show, the city was built by an advanced race known as the Ancients.

There are also life forms such as “ Hoffman ’ s Blobs ”, non-extant groups such as the “ Ancients ” and minimally evidenced groups, such as “ TWHON ” that do not play significant roles in the day to day affairs of the known extant species.

His early visionary work was greatly inspired by William Blake, and he become a member of the Blake-influenced group known as The Ancients which met at Samuel Palmer's in Shoreham, Kent in the later 1820s and early 1830s.

Along with Palmer, Calvert, Tatham and others he formed the Blake-influenced group known as " The Ancients ".

King Granseal and his minister attend to the Tower of the Ancients, under which is magically sealed a sleeping evil known as Zeon the Devil King.

A spiritual people, the Athosians venerate the Ancestors ( better known as the Ancients ), and dedicate prayers to them.

* The UK band The KLF were previously known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu

He is later wounded by Sephiroth during an investigation at the Temple of the Ancients ; Aerith cries shortly after seeing him, remarking that they had known each other since she was young.

Vico was writing in the context of the celebrated contemporary debate, known as the great Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns, over which was better, the classic poetry of Homer and the Bible or modern vernacular literature.

The Ancients ( also known as Shoreham Ancients and Extollagers ), were a group of English artists who were brought together by their attraction to archaism in art and admiration for the work of William Blake.

The humans seeded by the Ancients came to know them as ' the Ancestors '.

There are several examples of " lowers " praying and giving thanks to the Ancients / Ancestors in the Pegasus Galaxy.

As the humans from Earth inhabit the fabled City of the Ancestors after the series pilot of Stargate Atlantis, some Pegasus cultures believe the SGA members to be the Ancients returned.

* The Atlantis Expedition is based in the still sea-and space-worthy city-ship of the Ancients in the Pegasus Galaxy.

An international team, with personnel from at least 23 countries, interacts with the other humans of the Pegasus Galaxy ( seeded by the Ancients, not taken by the Goa ' uld ).

They traveled to the Pegasus galaxy and continued their experiments, but were forced into hiding after the Wraith defeated the Ancients.

It was also once the location of one of the Ancients City Ships, Atlantis, before it moved to the Pegasus Galaxy, and it was where their descendants returned to after their defeat by the Wraith.

After arriving in the Pegasus Galaxy, the Ancients settled on a planet they named ' Lantea ', calling themselves ' Lanteans ' from that time forward ( also, they have been referred to as ' Atlanteans ' by members of the Atlantis Expedition-a name often used by the peoples of Pegasus to describe the expedition members ).

Finding Pegasus devoid of sentient life, the Ancients dispersed humans and Stargates across their new home galaxy, protecting the newly-populated planets and occasionally inhabiting them ( usually concealing their true identities as Ancients ).

A few isolated groups of Ancients were left stranded in the Pegasus Galaxy and either lived out the rest of their lives with the humans, or found a way to ascend.

As a result, the Ancients have shielded the second evolution of humans ( i. e. current human culture ) in the Milky Way from the Ori ( and although it has never been stated, they most likely did the same for the seeded humans in the Pegasus Galaxy and Ida galaxy Asgard home galaxy ) and still prevent the Ori from taking direct action in the Milky Way.

Much of the Ancients ' weapons technology was used or designed for use in the centuries-long war with the Wraith in the Pegasus Galaxy.

Dr. Daniel Jackson also discovers the address for the Ancients ' Lost City of Atlantis in the Pegasus galaxy, and the international Atlantis Expedition is formed.

The city resided in Antarctica on Earth until five to ten million years ago, when a deadly plague prompted the Ancients to relocate it to the Pegasus galaxy.

During the war with the Ancients, a splinter faction of Asgard settled in Pegasus to conduct human genetic experiments in secret, but after the war's conclusion, the Wraith immediately destroyed both the settlement and its intergalactic ships ; the Asgard escaped, but were forced to remain in hiding for the remaining ten-thousand and five years on a planet with a toxic atmosphere.

Although not as advanced as their enemies, the Ancients, the Wraith were able to drive them out of the Pegasus galaxy by virtue of superior numbers, made possible by cloning technology powered by stolen ZPMs.

Colonel Samantha Carter came up with to accelerate transportation between Pegasus and the Milky Way, an Ancient ship was located, filled with living Ancients who reclaimed Atlantis.

Although not as advanced as their enemies, Ancients, the Wraith were able to drive them out of the Pegasus galaxy by virtue of superior numbers, made possible by cloning technology powered by stolen ZPMs.

They evolved in the Pegasus galaxy after a human population seeded by the Ancients was fed upon by an insect called the irratus bug, which has the ability to draw upon a human's life to heal itself.

The Wraith drove the Ancients out of Pegasus 10, 000 years ago ; they now maintain the human worlds of the Pegasus Galaxy as sources of food.

As there was seldom interbreeding between the Ancients and humans, the ATA gene is virtually non-existent amongst the natives of Pegasus.

According to the mythology of the show, the city was built by an advanced race known as the Ancients originally as a central outpost in prehistorical Antarctica, until an unexplained crisis — involving a virulent plague — forced them to relocate the city to the planet Lantea in the Pegasus Galaxy.