New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2004. — 80 p. — ISBN: 0-7614-7456-0 (set); ISBN: 0-7614-7466-8 (vol. 10).
This encyclopedia contains a total of 249 articles in 10 volumes, covering all aspects of the ancient world. The entries are grouped under the following themes: civilizations and peoples; biographies of people, legendary figures, and deities; places; philosophy, religion, and mythology; and writings. There are also cross-cultural articles on general topics such as art, education, and technology.
The period of time encompassed by this encyclopedia is approximately 6500 BCE to 500 CE. Broadly speaking, this span covers the period that begins with the development of writing and farming and the building of the first cities and ends with the fall of the Roman Empire and the start of the Dark Ages in Europe.
Each volume concludes with a glossary and an index. Volume 11, the final volume, contains a time line of the ancient world, a comprehensive glossary, resources for further study, Internet resources, a map list and index, a group of thematic indexes, and a comprehensive index.
Stonehenge.
Sumer.
Tacitus.
Technology.
Temples.
Teotihuacan.
Thebes.
Tikal.
Tombs.
Trad.
Transportation.
Troy.
Trung Sisters.
Tutankhamen.
Tyre.
Uluru.
Ur.
Valley of the Kings.
Warfare and Conquest.
Weights and Measures.
Women.
Writing.
Xerxes.
Zapotecs.
Zenobia.
Zeus.
Zoroastrianism.