The Cambridge Ancient History
The Cambridge Ancient History is a multi-volume work of ancient history from Prehistory to Late Antiquity, published by Cambridge University Press. 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 S. A. 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.
Second series
Volumes published
- I part I : Prolegomena and Prehistory – edited by I.E.S. Edwards, C.J. Gadd, N.G.L. Hammond
| Chapter | Title | Author |
| 1 | The geological ages | David Leslie Linton & F. Moseley |
| 2 | Physical conditions in Eastern Europe, Western Asia and Egypt before the period of agricultural and urban settlement | K. W. Butzer |
| 3 | Primitive Man in Egypt, Western Asia and Europe in Palaeolithic times, & in Mesolithic times | Dorothy A. E. Garrod & Grahame Clark |
| 4 | The evidence of Language | William F. Albright & Thomas Oden Lambdin |
| 5 | The earliest populations of man in Europe, Western Asia and Northern Africa | D. R. Hughes & Donald Reginald Brothwell |
| 6 | Chronology: I. Egypt—to the end of the Twentieth Dynasty. II. Ancient Western Asia. III. The Aegean Bronze Age | William C. Hayes, Michael B. Rowton, Frank Henry Stubbings |
| 7 | The earliest settlements in Western Asia from the ninth to the end of the fifth millennium B.C. Anatolia before 4000 B.C. | James Mellaart |
| 8 | The development of cities from Al-'Ubaid to the end of Uruk 5 | Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan |
| 9 | Predynastic Egypt Palestine during the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods Cyprus during the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods | Elise Jenny Baumgartel, Roland de Vaux, Hector William Catling |
| 10 | The Stone Age in the Aegean | S. S. Weinberg |
- I part II : Early History of the Middle East – edited by I. E. S. Edwards, C. J. Gadd, N. G. L. Hammond
| Chapter | Title | Author |
| 11 | The Early Dynastic Period in Egypt | I. E. S. Edwards |
| 12 | The last Predynastic Period in Babylonia | Henri Frankfort & Leri Davies |
| 13 | The cities of Babylonia | C. J. Gadd |
| 14 | The Old Kingdom in Egypt and the beginning of the First Intermediate Period | W. Stevenson Smith |
| 15 | Palestine in the early Bronze Age | Roland de Vaux |
| 16 | The Early Dynastic Period in Mesopotamia | Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan |
| 17 | Syria before 2200 B.C. | Margaret Stefana Drower & Jean Bottéro |
| 18 | Anatolia c.4000–2300 B.C. | James Mellaart & Carl William Blegen |
| 19 | The dynasty of Agade and the Gutian invasion | C. J. Gadd |
| 20 | The Middle Kingdom in Egypt | William C. Hayes |
| 21 | Syria and Palestine c.2160–1780 B.C. | Georges Posener, Jean Bottéro, Kathleen Mary Kenyon |
| 22 | Babylonia c. 2120–1800 B.C. | C. J. Gadd |
| 23 | Persia c.2400–1800 B.C. | Walther Hinz |
| 24 | Anatolia c.2300–1750 B.C. | James Mellaart, Carl William Blegen, Hildegard Lewy |
| 25 | Assyria c.2600–1816 B.C. | Hildegard Lewy |
| 26 | Greece, Crete, and the Aegean islands in the early Bronze Age | John Langdon Caskey & Hector William Catling |
| 27 | Immigrants from the north | R. A. Crossland |
- 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
| Chapter | Title | Author |
| 1 | Northern Mesopotamia and Syria | J. R. Kupper |
| 2 | Egypt: from the death of Ammenemes III to Seqenenre II | William C. Hayes |
| 3 | Palestine in the Middle Bronze Age | Kathleen M. Keyton |
| 4 | Greece and the Aegean Islands in the Middle Bronze Age | John Langdon Caskey |
| 5 | The maturity of Minoan civilization | F. Matz |
| 6 | Cyprus in the Middle Bronze Age | H. W. Catling |
| 7 | Hammurabi and the end of his dynasty | C. J. Gadd |
| 8 | Anatolia c. 1750–1600 BC | Oliver R. Gurney |
| 9 | Persia c. 1800–1550 BC | O. Walther Hinz |
| 10 | Egypt: from the expulsion of the Hyksos to Amenophis I | T. G. H. James |
| 11 | Egypt: internal affairs from Tuthmosis I to the death of Amenophis III | William C. Hayes |
| 12 | Syria c. 1550–1400 BC | Margaret S. Drower |
| 13 | Palestine in the time of the Eighteenth Dynasty | Kathleen Mary Keyton |
| 14 | The Zenith of Minoan civilization | F. Matz |
| 15 | The linear scripts | S. Dow and J. Chadwick |
| 16 | The rise of Mycenaean civilization | Frank H. Stubbings |
| 17 | Anatolia C. 1660–1380 BC | Oliver R. Gurney |
| 18 | Troy VI | Carl William Blegen |
| 19 | The archaeological evidence of the second millennium BC on the Persian Plateau | Robert H. Dyson |
- 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.
- 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