Ancient history is all the events we know about between the invention of writing and the start of the Middle Ages.
The first people to use writing were the Sumerians and the Ancient Egyptians.Finding facts about ancient history is difficult because people wrote less in those times and much of what they did write has been lost. There were very few copies made because there was no printing. What people wrote they wrote by hand.More people could read and write in Ancient Rome than in other places but much of what they wrote is now lost. Historians also look at things that were made and used in ancient history to learn more about it.

Some ancient things found using archaeology are:

• The Egyptian pyramids - Big tombs made by the Ancient Egyptians for their king and queens.

• ​The city of Pompeii - A city from Ancient Rome. When a volcano (a mountain that makes fire and hot rocks) killed the people living there, the city was buried and the things inside it were covered with rock and ash. This meant that they did not change for a long time.

• The Terracotta Army - the tomb of the First Qin Emperor in Ancient China.