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Bestselling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world-from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500 B. C. in the Tigris-Euphrates valley (present-day Iraq) to the fall of the Roman Empire in A. D. 476. In Antiquity, Cantor covers such subjects as Classical Greece, Judaism, the founding of Christianity, and the triumph and decline of Rome. In this fascinating and comprehensive analysis, the author...

An overview of the first 10,000 years of human existence, from the time of the first farming settlements to the overthrow of the American civilizations of the Incas and Aztecs.

Surveys the history of the ancient world, from prehistoric times to the fall of the Roman Empire.

Brief presentations of one hundred famous archeological sites and discoveries, including dinosaurs, the first humans, early civilizations, ending with the wreck of the Amsterdam in 1750.