A digital atlas of ancient names
What the great civilizations of antiquity called themselves and what their neighbors referred to them as. Original scripts, transliterations, pronunciations, and sources.
Civilizations
- Egypt c. 3100 BCE – 30 BCE
- Greece c. 800 BCE – 600 CE
- Persia c. 550 BCE – 650 CE
- Rome c. 753 BCE – 476 CE
- Sumer c. 3500 BCE – 1900 BCE
Geographic features
Languages
- Akkadian Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform
- Ancient Greek Greek alphabet
- Biblical Hebrew Hebrew alphabet
- Classical Arabic Arabic alphabet
- Classical Chinese Chinese characters
- Coptic Coptic alphabet
- Demotic Demotic
- Egyptian (Middle Egyptian) Egyptian hieroglyphs
- Elamite Elamite cuneiform
- Geʽez Ethiopic
- Hittite Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform
- Imperial Aramaic Aramaic alphabet
- Latin Latin alphabet
- Middle Persian Pahlavi
- Old Persian Old Persian cuneiform
- Parthian Inscriptional Parthian
- Phoenician Phoenician alphabet
- Sanskrit Devanagari (and others)
- Sumerian Sumerian cuneiform
- Syriac Syriac alphabet
- Ugaritic Ugaritic cuneiform alphabet