📚 Ancient History

Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Persia, Han China: the first cities, the first laws, the first histories written down.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject ancient history in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. 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
	Historiae Philippicae	Marcus Junianus Justinus	1470	73
	De medicina	Aulus Cornelius Celsus	1478	72
	The Greatness And Decline Of Rome V5	Guglielmo Ferrero	1900	53
	The Story of Civilization II	Will Durant	1935	45
	A History of Greece	George Grote	1849	41
	The Story of Civilization I	Will Durant	1935	38
	What happened in history	V. Gordon Childe	1942	37
	Epitome rerum Romanarum	Lucius Annaeus Florus	1532	33
	Histoire ancienne des Égyptiens, des Carthaginois, des Assyriens, des Babyloniens, des Medes, et des Perses, des Macedoniens, des Grecs	Charles Rollin	1729	30
	Histoire ancienne des Egyptiens	Charles Rollin	1733	29
	History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria	Gaston Maspero	1901	27
	Modern times and the living past	Henry William Elson	1921	27
	A manual of ancient history, from the earliest times to the fall of the western empire	George Rawlinson	1869	25
	Sorani Gynaeciorum vetus translatio latina	Soranus	1869	24
	Diodorus of Sicily	Diodorus Siculus	1900	21
	The history of the world	Walter Raleigh	1614	19
	El infinito en un junco	Irene Vallejo	2020	19
	A popular account of the ancient Egyptians	John Gardner Wilkinson	1854	17
	The dawn of history	C. F. Keary	1870	17
	Chronology of ancient kingdoms amended	John Conduitt	1728	16
	A history of the Hebrew people	Charles Foster Kent	1896	16
	The Ancient World	D. Brendan Nagle	1979	16
	Letters from a father to his daughter	Jawaharlal Nehru	1930	15
	Roots of the Western tradition	C. Warren (Charles Warren) Hollister	1930	15
	In search of Ancient Gods	Erich von Däniken	1973	15
	Herodotus	Herodotus	1812	14
	Geschichte des Volkes Israel bis Christus	Heinrich Ewald	1851	14
	Most ancient East	V. Gordon Childe	1928	14
	Herodoti Historiarum libri IX	Ἡρόδοτος	1844	11
	Ancient history	C. A. Bloss	1867	11

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 29 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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