The Usborne Book of the Ancient World

by Jane Chisholm, Anne Millard

-- Examines aspects of everyday life in the world's first civilizations, with emphasis on early Egyptian, Greek and Roman cultures. Filled with colorful pictures, maps and diagrams-- World History Dates covers 9000BC to the present day.

From back cover - The Usborne Book of the Ancient World describes in detail the world's oldest cultures and civilizations. Beginning with the first farming communities in the Middle Ease, the book concentrates on the earliest civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia, and the classical world of the Greeks and Romans. It also looks briefly at the earliest cultures in India, China and Asia Minor.

290 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1991

About the author

As Editorial Director at Usborne, Jane oversees books about absolutely everything. She grew up in Moscow, Singapore, and in a forest in Sussex, building treehouses and pretending to be one of the Famous Five. Before university she was a social worker in Botswana and camped under the stars in the Kalahari Desert.