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Ancient History


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)
  • 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