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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Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
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The Hidden Prince
The Lost Voices of Pompeii: Life and Death on Pompeii's Final Day
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The Histories
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
History of the Peloponnesian War
The Odyssey
The Iliad
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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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A potent idea, given a name and a face across five millennia, this deity is the incarnation of fear as well as love, of pain as well as pleasure, of the agony and ecstasy of desire
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Warm, gentle winds blew and blew, and the loamy soil swirled playfully about before shifting, oh, so slightly. Then, little by little, piece by piece, remnants of the City were unearthed by curious people who had come from faraway lands. A stone tablet, a shard of pottery, portions of a shattered statue and pieces of beautifully painted tiles. A bust of a woman, who could she possibly be?
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