Ancient History

Ancient history is the aggregate of past events from the beginning of recorded human history and extending as far as the Early Middle Ages or the Post-classical Era. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with Sumerian Cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of coherent writing from the proto-literate period around the 30th century BC.

The term classical antiquity is often used to refer to history in the Old World from the beginning of recorded Greek history in 776 BC (First Olympiad). This roughly coincides with the traditional date of the founding of Rome in 753 B
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Rome's Age of Revolution
The Lost Voices of Pompeii: Life and Death on Pompeii's Final Day
Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World
Servus: How Slavery Made the Roman World
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece
Babylon: The Mother of All Cities, from the critically acclaimed ancient historian and author of The Persians 'Remarkable' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE, author of THE GOLDEN ROAD
Son of Nobody
The House with the Golden Door (Wolf Den Trilogy, #2)
Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
Roma soy yo: La verdadera historia de Julio César (Julio César, #1)
Boudicca's Daughter
The Hidden Prince
Nero (The Nero Trilogy, #1)
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
A History of Britain in Ten Enemies
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
Servus: How Slavery Made the Roman World
The Lost Voices of Pompeii: Life and Death on Pompeii's Final Day
Carthage: A New History
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Biographical Sketches
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Historical Cookery
319 books — 81 voters
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Books about Hatshepsut
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History Exposed
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The Aeneid by VirgilPentateuch by AnonymousAMERICA IS THE TRUE OLD WORLD by Amunhotep Chavis El BeyThe Nature of the Gods by Marcus Tullius CiceroCaesar's Commentaries by Gaius Julius Caesar
Influential Books of the Ancient Era
20 books — 3 voters

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
The Histories
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
History of the Peloponnesian War
The Odyssey
The Iliad
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
The Twelve Caesars
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
The Aeneid
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

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