The Temple of the Ancients is a location in Final Fantasy VII, built by the Cetra thousands of years ago to house the Black Materia. The outside of the temple is similar in architecture to the Mayan pyramid of Kukulkan. The interior is a large maze-like cavern of staircases, and includes a passage where the party must avoid falling boulders, and a large clock the party must operate, walking across its hands to access the rooms its hands can point to. The mural room where the source of the Black Materia is stored shows paintings similar to the ancient Egypt, depicting the summoning of Ultimate Magic, Meteor.


In the light of many changes in the world, while people were being thrown into the world of Gaia for unknown reasons, as well as locations of other worlds, places once destroyed, such as the Temple of Ancients had been resurrected. While many have tried to figure out why this is happening, no one has had luck in gathering the mysterious visitors, or reappearing once destroyed cities and area's.