The Cambridge Ancient History is a comprehensive ancient history

Ancient history

Ancient history is the study of the written past from the beginning of recorded human history to the Early Middle Ages. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, with Cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of coherent writing, from the protoliterate period around the 30th century BC...

 in fourteen volumes, spanning Prehistory

Prehistory

Prehistory is the span of time before recorded history. Prehistory can refer to the period of human existence before the availability of those written records with which recorded history begins. More broadly, it refers to all the time preceding human existence and the invention of writing...

 to Late Antiquity

Late Antiquity

Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the time of transition from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world. Precise boundaries for the period are a matter of debate, but noted historian of the period Peter Brown proposed...

, published by Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...

. The first series, of twelve volumes, was planned by J. B. Bury and published between 1924 and 1939. A second series, revising and updating the first, was first published in 1970 and completed in 2001. It contains fourteen volumes in nineteen books.

Volumes published

• I.I: Prolegomena and Prehistory
• I.II: Early History of the Middle East
• II.I: History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c.1800-1380
• II.II: History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c.1380-1000
• III.I: The Prehistory of the Balkans; and the Middle East and the Aegean world, tenth to eighth centuries B.C.
• III.II: The Assyrian and Babylonian Empires and other States of the Near East, from the Eighth to the Sixth Centuries B.C.
• III.III: The Expansion of the Greek World, Eighth to Sixth Centuries B.C.
• 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.I: The Hellenistic World
• VII.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