The word(s) "ancients" appears 15 time(s) in 15 verse(s) in Quran in Muhammad Habib Shakir translation.

(11) We have certainly been promised this, we and our fathers before; these are naught but stories of the ancients

(12) And certainly most of the ancients went astray before them,

(13) And how many a prophet have We sent among the ancients.

(14) Then We destroyed those who were stronger than these in prowess, and the case of the ancients has gone before,

(15) And he who says to his parents: Fie on you! do you threaten me that I shall be brought forth when generations have already passed away before me? And they both call for Allah's aid: Woe to you! believe, surely the promise of Allah is true. But he says: This is nothing but stories of the ancients.