📚 Ancient Civilization

Books with ancient civilization on their catalogue record, first published between 1880 and 2011, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject ancient civilization in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 3,287 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	What happened in history	V. Gordon Childe	1942	37
	Histoire universelle	Cesare Cantù	1984	35
	History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria	Gaston Maspero	1901	27
	People of the earth	Brian M. Fagan	1977	22
	The Ancient World	D. Brendan Nagle	1979	16
	Zurück zu den Sternen	Erich von Däniken	1969	15
	In search of Ancient Gods	Erich von Däniken	1973	15
	Wonderful Ethiopians of the ancient Cushite empire	Drusilla Dunjee Houston	1985	15
	The children of the sun	W. J. Perry	1923	14
	Most ancient East	V. Gordon Childe	1928	14
	A history of science	George Sarton	1952	14
	From the tablets of Sumer	Samuel Noah Kramer	1956	14
	Four thousand years ago	Geoffrey Bibby	1961	14
	The Encyclopedia of Ancient Civilizations	Cotterell, Arthur.	1980	14
	The Humanistic Tradition	Gloria K. Fiero	1981	14
	The legacy of the ancient world	William George De Burgh	1924	13
	The religions of the ancient world	George Rawlinson	1880	12
	The lost continent of Mu	James Churchward	1931	12
	The origin of civilized societies	Rushton Coulborn	1959	11
	Rome & Romans	Heather Amery	1976	11
	World's Most Amazing Lost Cities	Ann Weil	2011	11
	Ancient ideals	Henry Osborn Taylor	1896	10
	The face of the ancient Orient	Sabatino Moscati	1960	10
	Ancient World	Heidi Hayes Jacobs	1998	10
	The cultural unity of Negro Africa	Cheikh Anta Diop	1959	9
	Crash go the chariots	Clifford A. Wilson	1972	9
	The age of the gods	Christopher Dawson	1928	8
	Augustus Caesar's world	Genevieve Foster	1947	8
	Gods and men	Henry Bamford Parkes	1959	8
	Early civilization	Alexander Alexandrovitch Goldenweiser	1921	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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