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Noun: ancient history  'eyn-shunt 'his-tu-ree
  1. A history of the ancient world
     
  2. Knowledge of some recent fact or event that has become so commonly known that it has lost its original pertinence

Type of: account, chronicle, common knowledge, history, story

Encyclopedia: Ancient history

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