''The Cambridge Ancient History'' is a multi-volume work of

ancient history Ancient history is a time period from the History of writing, beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the development of Sumerian language, ...

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Prehistory Prehistory, also called pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use ...

Late Antiquity Late antiquity marks the period that comes after the end of classical antiquity and stretches into the onset of the Early Middle Ages. Late antiquity as a period was popularized by Peter Brown (historian), Peter Brown in 1971, and this periodiza ...

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Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press was the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted a letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it was the oldest university press in the world. Cambridge University Press merged with Cambridge Assessme ...

. The first series, consisting of 12 volumes, was planned in 1919 by Irish historian J. B. Bury and published between 1924 and 1939, co-edited by Frank Adcock and Stanley Arthur Cook. The second series was published between 1970 and 2005, consisting of 14 volumes in 19 books. ''The Cambridge Ancient History'' is part of a larger series of works, along with '' The Cambridge Medieval History'' and '' The Cambridge Modern History'', intended to cover the entire history of European civilisation. In the original edition, it was the last in this series to appear, the first volume of the ''Modern History'' having been published in 1902, and the first volume of the ''Medieval History'' in 1911. In the second series, however, the ''Ancient History'' began to be published before the ''Medieval History''.

First series

# ''Egypt and Babylonia to 1580 B.C.'' (1923). # ''The Egyptian and Hittite Empires to c. 1000 B.C.'' (1924). # ''The Assyrian Empire.'' (1926). # ''The Persian Empire and the West.'' (1926). # ''Athens. 478–401 B.C.'' (1927). # ''Macedon. 401–301 B.C.'' (1927). # ''The Hellenistic Monarchies and the Rise of Rome.'' (1928). # ''Rome and the Mediterranean. 218–133 B.C.'' (1930). # ''The Roman Republic. 133–44 B.C.'' (1932). # ''The Augustan Empire. 44 B.C.–A.C. 70.'' (1934). # ''The Imperial Peace. A.D. 70–192.'' (1936). # ''The Imperial Crisis and Recovery. A.D. 193–324.'' (1939).

Second series

Volumes published

* I part I (1970): ''Prolegomena and Prehistory'' – edited by I.E.S. Edwards, C.J. Gadd, N.G.L. Hammond *I part II (1971): ''Early History of the Middle East'' – edited by I. E. S. Edwards, C. J. Gadd, N. G. L. Hammond *II part I: ''History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c.1800-1380'' – edited by I. E. S. Edwards, C. J. Gadd, N. G. L. Hammond, L. Sollberger *II part II: ''History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c.1380-1000'' *III part I: ''The Prehistory of the Balkans; and the Middle East and the Aegean world, tenth to eighth centuries B.C.'' *III part II: ''The Assyrian and Babylonian Empires and other States of the Near East, from the Eighth to the Sixth Centuries B.C.'' *III part III: ''The Expansion of the Greek World, Eighth to Sixth Centuries B.C.'' – edited by John Boardman, N. G. L. Hammond *IV: ''Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean C. 525 to 479 B.C.'' *V: ''The Fifth Century B.C.'' *VI: ''The Fourth Century B.C.'' *VII part I: ''The Hellenistic World'' *VII part II: ''The Rise of Rome to 220 B.C.'' *VIII: ''Rome and the Mediterranean to 133 B.C.'' *IX: ''The Last Age of the Roman Republic, 146-43 B.C.'' *X: ''The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C.-A.D. 69'' *XI: ''The High Empire, A.D. 70-192'' *XII: ''The Crisis of Empire, A.D. 193–337'' *XIII: ''The Late Empire, A.D. 337–425'' *XIV: ''Late Antiquity: Empire and Successors, A.D. 425–600''

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