Ancient History Collection

Ancient history as a term refers to the aggregate of past events from the beginning of writing and recorded human history and extending as far as the post-classical history. The phrase may be used either to refer to the period of time or the academic discipline. 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. Ancient History covers all continents inhabited by humans in the 3,000 BC - AD 500 period.

The broad term Ancient History is not to be confused with Classical Antiquity. The term classical antiquity is often used to refer to Western History in the Ancient Mediterranean 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 BC, the beginning of the history of ancient Rome, and the beginning of the Archaic period in Ancient Greece.

The academic term "history" is not to be confused with colloquial references to times past. History is fundamentally the study of the past through documents, and can be either scientific (archaeology) or humanistic (history through language). Although the ending date of ancient history is disputed, some Western scholars use the fall of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476 (the most used), the closure of the Platonic Academy in AD 529, the death of the emperor Justinian I in AD 565, the coming of Islam or the rise of Charlemagne as the end of ancient and Classical European history. Outside of Europe the 450-500 time frame for the end of ancient times has had difficulty as a transition date from Ancient to Post-Classical times.

Available Books

Book Title	Date
A History of Art in Ancient Egypt Vol. 1	1883
A History of Art in Ancient Egypt Vol. 2	1883
A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria Vol. 1	1884
A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria Vol. 2	1884
An Historical Atlas	1830
Ancient Fragments	1832
Ancient India as Described by Megasthenes and Arrian	1877
Antiquities of the Orient Unveiled	1873
Antiquities of the Orient Unveiled	1875
Arrian's History of Alexander's Expedition Vol. 1	1729
Arrian's History of Alexander's Expedition Vol. 2	1729
Arrian's Voyage Round the Euxine Sea	1805
Bactria, the History of a Forgotten Empire	1912
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology Vol. 1	1870
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology Vol. 2	1870
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology Vol. 3	1870
Geographia Antiqua Latinorum et Graecorum	1721
History of Art in Persia	1892
History of Art in Phoenicia Vol. 1	1885
History of Art in Phoenicia Vol. 2	1885
History of Art in Phrygia, Lydia, Caria, and Lycia	1892
History of Art in Primitive Greece Vol. 1	1894
History of Art in Primitive Greece Vol. 2	1894
History of Art in Sardinia, Judaea, Syria, and Asia Minor Vol. 1	1890
History of Art in Sardinia, Judaea, Syria, and Asia Minor Vol. 2	1890
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria Vol. 1	1900
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria Vol. 2	1900
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria Vol. 3	1900
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria Vol. 4	1900
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria Vol. 5	1900
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria Vol. 6	1900
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria Vol. 7	1900
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria Vol. 8	1900
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria Vol. 9	1900
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria Vol. 10	1904
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria Vol. 11	1904
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria Vol. 12	1904
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria Vol. 13	1904
L'antique Rome, ou, Description Historique et Pittoresque	1796
Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Assyria	1916
Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt	1916
Quintus Curtius, His History of the Wars of Alexander	1714
Sanchoniatho's Phoenician History	1720
The Ancient Fragments	1828
The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean Vol. 1	1807
The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean Vol. 2	1807
The Commerce and Navigation of the Erythraean Sea	1879
The Course of Empire	1883
The Delphian Course Vol. 1	1922
The Delphian Course Vol. 2	1922
The Delphian Course Vol. 3	1922
The Delphian Course Vol. 4	1922
The Delphian Course Vol. 5	1922
The Delphian Course Vol. 6	1922
The Delphian Course Vol. 7	1922
The Delphian Course Vol. 8	1922
The Delphian Course Vol. 9	1922
The Delphian Course Vol. 10	1922
The Egyptian Dynasties of Manetho	1863
The Geography of Strabo Vol. 1	1854
The Geography of Strabo Vol. 2	1854
The Geography of Strabo Vol. 3	1854
The History of the World	1614
The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great	1896
The Life of Alexander the Great, King of Macedon	1796
The Periplus of Hanno	1912
The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea	1912
The Romans on the Riviera and the Rhone	1898
The Voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates	1797
Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece [Atlas]	1795
Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece Vol. 1	1794
Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece Vol. 2	1794
Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece Vol. 3	1794
Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece Vol. 4	1794
Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece Vol. 5	1794
Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece Vol. 6	1794
Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece Vol. 7	1794
Voyage de Nearque, des bouches de l'Indus jusqu'a l'Euphrate Vol. 1	1799
Voyage de Nearque, des bouches de l'Indus jusqu'a l'Euphrate Vol. 2	1800
Voyage de Nearque, des bouches de l'Indus jusqu'a l'Euphrate Vol. 3	1800