Ancient History Timelines

Free printable ancient history timelines for kids — Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, Mesopotamia, and more. Each prints on Letter paper with a blank fill-in version and quiz.

Antique engraving of the Roman Forum with temples, a triumphal arch, and citizens in togas
753 BC – AD 476

Ancient Rome Timeline

Ancient Rome grew from a small city on the banks of the Tiber River into the greatest empire of the ancient world, lasting over a thousand years.

Antique engraving of the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Sphinx at dawn
3100 BC – 30 BC

Ancient Egypt Timeline

Ancient Egypt was one of the world's first great civilizations, ruled by pharaohs along the Nile River for more than 3,000 years.

Antique engraving of the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis
800 BC – 31 BC

Ancient Greece Timeline

Ancient Greece gave the world democracy, philosophy, the Olympics, and some of history's greatest art and literature, flourishing in independent city-states along the Mediterranean.

Antique engraving of the Great Wall of China snaking across mountain ridges at dawn
2100 BC – AD 220

Ancient China Timeline

Ancient China produced some of history's most enduring civilizations, giving the world writing, paper, the Silk Road, and two thousand years of dynastic rule.

Antique engraving of the great ziggurat of Ur rising from the Mesopotamian plain
3500 BC – 539 BC

Ancient Mesopotamia Timeline

Ancient Mesopotamia — the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq — is called the cradle of civilization, home to the world's first cities, first writing, and first law codes.

Antique engraving of Emperor Ashoka's lion-capital pillar rising above an ancient landscape
c. 2600 – 200 BCE

Ancient India Timeline

Ancient India was home to one of the world's first urban civilizations — the Indus Valley Civilization — and later gave rise to Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and the Maurya Empire, one of the largest empires of the ancient world.