Books that deal with the history of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Palestine, and nearby or related areas.
☛Books about Ancient Egypt in particular have their own page.
The Code of Hammurabi. By Percy Hancock, M.A. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1920. —A translation with very short introduction.
The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians, and Macedonians; including a history of the arts and sciences of the ancients. By Charles Rollin. First complete American edition, 1836. This work is available in countless editions, and perhaps in the future this page will have more of them.
Antiquities Of The Orient Unveiled, Containing A Concise Description Of The Ruins Of King Solomon's Cities, Together With Those Of Forty Of The Most Ancient And Renowned Cities Of The East, Including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, And Shushan. Embellished with three beautiful lithographs and seventy full-page engravings. By M. Wolcott Redding. New York: Redding & Co., 1873.
Cory's Ancient Fragments of the Phoenician, Carthaginian, Babylonian, Egyptian and Other Authors. A new and enlarged edition by E. Richmond Hodges, 1876.
The Sixth Great Oriental Monarchy; or the geography, history, & antiquities of Parthia, collected and illustrated from ancient and modern sources. By George Rawlinson, M.A. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1873.
Parthia. By George Rawlinson, M.A., F.R.G.S. London: T. Fisher Unwin; New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1893. —Part of the “Story of the Nations” series.
The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy, or the geography, history, and antiquities of the Sassanian or new Persian Empire. By George Rawlinson. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1882.
A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. From the French of Georges Perrot and Charles Chipiez. Translated and Edited by Walter Armstrong. Illustrated with five hundred and ninety-eight engravings in the text, and fourteen steel and coloured plates. London: Chapman and Hall, 1883.
A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria. From the French of Georges Perrot and Charles Chipiez. Translated and edited by Walter Armstrong. Illustrated with four hundred and fifty-two engravings in the text and didteen steel and coloured plates. London: Chapman and Hall, 1884.
Bibilotheque orientale, ou Dictionnaire universel, contenant généralement tout ce qui regarde la connoissance des peuples de l'Orient. Maestricht: J. E. DuFour & Ph. Roux, 1776. —An alphabetical encyclopedia of oriental studies. Cited by Gibbon.
Parthia. By George Rawlinson. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893.
History of Greece, Macedonia, and Syria, from the age of Xenophon to the incorporation of those states with the Roman Empire. By William Roe Lyall; Jacob Henry Brooke Mountain; George Cecil Renouard; P. Pococke; ——Cleland; The Late Michael Russell. Edited by E Pococke. Second edition. London: John Joseph Griffin and Co., 1852.