The following works are recommended to the student who desires a more complete account of the nations of antiquity.
Rawlinson’s History of the Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World.
Wilkinson’s Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians.
Heeren’s Researches into the Politics, Commerce, etc., of the Ancient World.
Niebuhr’s Lectures on Ancient History.
Layard’s Nineveh.
Milman’s History of the Jews.
Stanley’s History of the Jewish Church.
Josephus’s Jewish Antiquities.
Herodotus. (Rawlinson’s translation, with illustrative essays, is incomparably the best.)