ancient history

English Thesaurus

1. knowledge of some recent fact or event that has become so commonly known that it has lost its original pertinence (noun.cognition)

hypernym	:	common knowledge,
definition	:	anything generally known to everyone (noun.cognition)

2. a history of the ancient world (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	account, chronicle, history, story,
definition	:	a record or narrative description of past events (noun.communication)