Many of our greatest inventions occurred at the very start of our history, from our ability to read and write, to laying the very foundations that delivered our unique understanding of everything that lies around us today. Yet our knowledge of this period is increasingly becoming 'lost' as we go about our hectic modern-day lives. Many of us will never have considered to ask such simple questions like how did our alphabet first arise? who invested the first alarm clock? or why do we insist on having a 'page boy' present at a wedding ceremony? We embed these 'ancient' concepts into our everyday lives, things that we assume just are, without a seconds thought to how they first arose.

Purposely delivered in bite-sized chunks to fuel the reader's imagination, here we take a journey back through the fascinating history of the ancient world and pay homage to the very people across the ancient globe that leapfrogged our advancement towards the modern-day. Encapsulating everything from the splendour of the ancient Egyptians and cerebral Mesopotamians to the collapse of the mighty Roman Empire and the dawn of chivalry in Europe. Covering the birth of ancient Chinese philosophy and the unique story of Gautama on his road to finding Nirvana. Detailing the battles that Hannibal endured during the gruelling Punic Wars, discussing the discovery of our alphabet in the dusty mines of the Middle East and detailing the unrivalled legacy that the ancient Greeks left upon our shores.