Mythology is not included here - you can find it on my Myths and Stories page.
Prehistory
Ancient Egypt
- The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt (Elizabeth Payne) - Landmark history series
- Usborne Time Traveller: Pyramids and Pharaohs UK
- Egyptology: Search for the Tomb of Osiris (Emily Sands et al) UK
- Mummies Made in Egypt (Aliki)
- Princess of Egypt: an Egyptian Girl's Diary 1490BC (Vince Cross) - My Story series UK
- Discovering the Tomb (Alan MacDonald) - discovery of Tutenkhamun's tomb, Scholastic Double Take series UK
- Tut's Mummy Lost and Found (Judy Donnelly) - easy reader
- The Boy Pharaoh: Tutenkhamun (Noel Streatfeild) UK
- Cleopatra (Diane Stanley)
- Casting the God's Adrift: a Tale of Ancient Egypt (Geraldine McCaughrean) - set in time of Akhenaten UK
- The Golden Goblet (Eloise Jarvis McGraw)
- Mara, Daughter of the Nile (Eloise Jarvis McGraw)
- God King (Joanne Williamson)
- Shadow Hawk (Andre Norton) – set during the Hyksos invasions, c.1590
- The Cat of Bubastes (G.A.Henty)
Greece
- Famous Men of Greece
- The Story of the Greeks (Helene Guerber)
- Alexander the Great (Nikos Kazantzakis)
- Science in Ancient Greece (Kathlyn Gay
- The Crown of Violet (Geoffrey Trease) - story of an Athenian boy and
his family, with a Greek drama theme. UK
- The Spartan Twins (Lucy Fitch Perkins)
- Children of the Fox (Jill Paton Walsh) UK
- Theras & His Town (Caroline Dale Snedeker) – an Athenian boy tries to
adjust to life in Sparta
- The Secret Arrow (Kenneth Lillington) – Sparta and Peracles
Rome
- Famous Men of Rome
- The Story of the Romans (Helene Guerber)
- Usborne Time Traveller: Rome and Romans UK
- Augustus Caesar's World (Genevieve Foster)
- Lives of Famous Romans (Olivia Coolidge)
- Caesar's Gallic Wars (Olivia Coolidge)
- City (David Macaulay)
- Science in Ancient Rome (Jacqueline L.Harris)
- Detectives in Togas (Henry Winterfeld)
- Mystery of the Roman Ransom (Henry Winterfeld)
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Roman Mysteries series (Caroline Lawrence) - first four books (of many) are ... UK
- The Pirates of Pompeii
- The Secrets of Vesuvius
- The
Assassins of Rome
- The Thieves of
Ostia
- A Triumph for Flavius (Caroline Dale Snedeker)
- The Time Travelling Cat and the
Roman Eagle (Julia Jarman) UK
-
Word to Caesar (Geoffrey Trease) UK
- Pompeii: a Roman Girl's Diary AD78 (Sue Reid) - My Story series UK
- Roman Invasion: A British Boy's Diary AD 84 (Jim Eldridge) - My Story series UK
- The Eagle of the Ninth
(Rosemary Sutcliff) - a young Roman tries to find out what happened to
the Ninth Legion, lost years before in northern Britain. First in a
trilogy about Marcus Aquila; the second and third books are ... UK
- The Silver
Branch (Rosemary Sutcliff) and ... UK
- The Lantern Bearers (Rosemary Sutcliff) UK
- The Capricorn Bracelet (Rosemary Sutcliff) - collection of stories follows a family of soldiers through 300 years of Roman Britain UK
- Between the Forest and the Hills (Lawrence) - fun and fantasy, set during the later years of Roman Britain
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