The Best Ancient Civilizations Books for Kids

A museum that never closes: six galleries, more than 160 objects, and a label for every one of them.

Fifty years of quarrying, hauling, and surveying, drawn line by line until a mountain of stone makes sense.

Two girls build a temple in an abandoned storage yard, invent their own rites, and discover the game is answering back.

Three farmers digging a well in 1974 hit a clay head, and eight thousand life-size soldiers begin to surface.

Someone is beheading the watchdogs of Ostia, and four children from four very different households mean to find out who.

A Thracian slave and an Athenian girl, told in verse and prose, with the gods interrupting whenever they please.

The world's oldest story, told in gold-flecked pictures: a tyrant king and the wild man sent to humble him.

An apprentice goldsmith in Thebes finds a stolen goblet in his half-brother's room and has to prove where it came from.

A boy hiding in the hills above Galilee wants Rome driven out, and is not prepared for the teacher who complicates that.

A warrior wins his war, a false message arrives before he does, and two volcanoes end up watching over Mexico.

A boy's first run as a royal messenger, along a mountain road, with the sun going down and animals in trouble at every turn.

With a stick, a shadow, and the distance between two Egyptian cities, one Greek librarian works out the size of the Earth.

A falcon steals a rose-red slipper from a servant girl and drops it in the pharaoh's lap.