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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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
The Twelve Caesars
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
The Aeneid
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

The Caucasus mountain range is probably the most variegated ethnological and linguistic area in the world. It is not a melting pot, as has been said, but a refuge area par excellence where small groups have maintained their identity throughout history. The descendants of the Mediaeval Alans, a Scythic Iranian people, live in the north Caucasus today and are called Ossetes. Iranian cultural influences were strong among the Armenians, Georgians and other peoples of the Caucasus and many times in h ...more
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Desde la niñez, nos han hecho considerar este lugar como la cuna de la raza humana.
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