I will discuss ancient solutions in the context of the mean curvature flow, the Ricci flow and the Yamabe flow. I will discuss the classification result in the Ricci flow, construction result of infinitely many ancient solutions in the Yamabe flow. In the last part of the talk I will mention the most recent result about the unique asymptotics of non-collapsed ancient solutions to the mean curvature flow which is a joint work with Daskalopoulos and Angenent.