Featuring seventeen beautiful hand-illustrated maps and packed with eye-opening information about ancient civilizations and peoples, this is a pictorial guide to what the world was like between 10,000 B.C. and A.D. 1000. Each map shows the major sites from a particular civilization or group of civilizations, with their cities, temples, palaces, farmers, and traders brought vividly to life with detailed picture symbols. Feature spreads use photographs of cultural and architectural artifacts, as well asmore information, to focus in greater depth on the key cultures of Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Veritas Press describes it as "the best historical atlas we've seen."
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Discover magnificent cities such as Ur, Babylon, Mycenae, Carthage, Aksum, and Xinjiang
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Find yourself surrounded by Indian temples, Persian palaces, European burial mounds, Chinese canals and walls, North American pueblo towns, and Central American pyramids
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Meet the peoples who worked the land, sailed the seas, traded, ruled, and fought in ancient locations
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In-depth feature spreads focus on favorite topics, including the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans
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Picture symbols help locate key ancient sites and amazing details of everyday life
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