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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The Romans: A 2,000-Year History
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The Hidden Prince
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Boudicca's Daughter
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
Nero (The Nero Trilogy, #1)
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
The Gates of Athens
After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
The Peasant King
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
The Lion (The Golden Age #1)
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

Roberta Pearce
They were ancient history. They were so ancient they made ancient history look modern. Well, okay . . . maybe medieval.
Roberta Pearce, For Those Who Wait

Norman F. Cantor
A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor, appeared in East Africa... She was four feet tall and probably black..
Norman F. Cantor, Antiquity

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