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Ancient Era
These are history books about the time period between roughly 2.5 million B.C to 600 B.C.
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Tutankhamun's Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects by Toby Wilkinson

Tutankhamun's Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects

Toby Wilkinson

505 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
The Purpled World: Marketing Haute Couture in the Aegean Bronze Age by Morris Silver

The Purpled World: Marketing Haute Couture in the Aegean Bronze Age

Morris Silver

426 pages • missing pub info (editions)

informative medium-paced
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra by Toby Wilkinson

The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra

Toby Wilkinson

646 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World by Philip Matyszak

Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World

Philip Matyszak

288 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous challenging informative medium-paced
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

Cleopatra: A Life

Stacy Schiff

14 hours, 17 minutes • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative medium-paced
You Are My Pride: A Love Letter from Your Motherland by Carole Boston Weatherford

You Are My Pride: A Love Letter from Your Motherland

Carole Boston Weatherford

40 pages • missing pub info (editions)

emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Discovery of Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamesh by E.A. Wallis Budge

The Discovery of Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamesh

E.A. Wallis Budge

67 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Epic of Gilgamesh by Unknown

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Unknown

71 pages • first pub -1200 (editions)

fiction classics poetry adventurous fast-paced
Sapiens : Une brève histoire de l'humanité by Yuval Noah Harari

Sapiens : Une brève histoire de l'humanité

A Brief History Series #1

Yuval Noah Harari

512 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative reflective medium-paced
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek

Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization

Paul Kriwaczek

310 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous challenging informative slow-paced