This new historical atlas - richly illustrated with photographs, artwork
recreations and full-colour maps - explores the world's earliest
civilisations from the first farming settlements of Mesopotamia, via
Egypt, Greece and Rome, to the civilisations of the Far East, Europe and
America. Informatively written, and ideal for both students and the
general reader, it plots the rise and fall of empires, the nature of
different societies and the evolution of technology.