History and Antiquities

history

  • noun (pl. histories) 1 the study of past events. 2 the past considered as a whole. 3 the past events connected with someone or something. 4 a continuous record of past events or trends.

  — ORIGIN Greek historia ‘narrative, history’, from histor ‘learned, wise man’.

antiquity

  • noun (pl. antiquities) 1 the distant past, especially before the Middle Ages. 2 an object from the distant past. 3 great age.