Cyclades: Legendary Edition is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, area-movement, auction-bidding. Playtime is around 60–90 for 2–6 players with ancient, city-building elements.

Cyclades: Legendary Edition

Ezra–Nehemiah is a book in the Hebrew Bible found in the Ketuvim section, originally with the Hebrew title of Ezra, called Esdras B in the Septuagint. The book covers the period from the fall of Babylon in 539 BCE to the second half of the 5th century BCE, and tells of the succes

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Ezra and Nehemiah

Men-Nefer is a board game featuring income, open-drafting, set-collection. Playtime is around 60–120 for 1–4 players with ancient, civilization elements.

Men-Nefer

Legacy of Yu is a board game featuring chaining, hand-management, multi-use-cards. Playtime is around 60 for 1 players with ancient, city-building elements.

Legacy of Yu

Wonders of the World are lists compiled over the ages that catalogue remarkable natural and man-made constructions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonders_of_the_World_(disambiguation)

World Wonders

Aeon Trespass: Odyssey is a board game featuring command-cards, cooperative-game, dice-rolling. Playtime is around 90 for 1–4 players with adventure, ancient elements.

Aeon Trespass: Odyssey

An acropolis was the settlement of an upper part of an ancient Greek city, especially a citadel, and frequently a hill with precipitous sides, mainly chosen for purposes of defense. The term is typically used to refer to the Acropolis of Athens, yet nearly every Greek city had an

Akropolis

Foundations of Rome is a board game featuring auction-dutch, income, market. Playtime is around 60–90 for 1–5 players with ancient, city-building elements.

Foundations of Rome

Mosaic: A Story of Civilization is a board game featuring action-queue, area-majority-influence, end-game-bonuses. Playtime is around 120 for 2–6 players with ancient, civilization elements.

Mosaic: A Story of Civilization

7 Wonders: Architects is a board game featuring neighbor-scope, open-drafting, set-collection. Playtime is around 25 for 2–7 players with ancient elements.

7 Wonders: Architects

Ankh: Gods of Egypt is a board game featuring action-retrieval, alliances, area-majority-influence. Playtime is around 90 for 2–5 players with ancient, fantasy elements.

Ankh: Gods of Egypt

Caesar!: Seize Rome in 20 Minutes! is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, chit-pull-system, simulation. Playtime is around 20 for 1–2 players with ancient, civil-war elements.

Caesar!: Seize Rome in 20 Minutes!

Clash of Cultures: Monumental Edition is a board game featuring action-points, dice-rolling, grid-movement. Playtime is around 180–240 for 2–4 players with ancient, city-building elements.

Clash of Cultures: Monumental Edition

Hadrian's Wall is a former defensive fortification of the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian. Running from Wallsend on the River Tyne in the east to Bowness-on-Solway in the west of what is now northern England, it was a stone wall wi

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Hadrian's Wall

Imperium: Classics is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, end-game-bonuses, hand-management. Playtime is around 40–160 for 1–4 players with ancient, card-game elements.

Imperium: Classics

Kemet: Blood and Sand is a board game featuring action-points, area-majority-influence, area-movement. Playtime is around 90–180 for 2–5 players with ancient, fighting elements.

Kemet: Blood and Sand

Khôra: Rise of an Empire is a board game featuring dice-rolling, income, investment. Playtime is around 75 for 2–4 players with ancient, city-building elements.

Khôra: Rise of an Empire

7 Wonders (Second Edition) is a board game featuring closed-drafting, hand-management, neighbor-scope. Playtime is around 30 for 3–7 players with ancient, card-game elements.

7 Wonders (Second Edition)

Raiders of Scythia is a board game featuring contracts, dice-rolling, hand-management. Playtime is around 60–80 for 1–4 players with ancient elements.

Raiders of Scythia

Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun is a board game featuring action-drafting, income, open-drafting. Playtime is around 60–120 for 1–4 players with ancient, dice elements.

Tekhenu: Obelisk of the Sun

Atlantis Rising (Second Edition) is a board game featuring cooperative-game, dice-rolling, push-your-luck. Playtime is around 60–120 for 1–7 players with ancient, civilization elements.

Atlantis Rising (Second Edition)

Babylonia was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based on the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia. It emerged as an Akkadian-populated but Amorite-ruled state c. 1894 BC. During the reign of Hammurabi and afterwards, Babylonia was retrospectively cal

Babylonia

Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North is a board game featuring hand-management, take-that, variable-player-powers. Playtime is around 45–90 for 1–4 players with ancient, card-game elements.

Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North

Carpe diem is a Latin aphorism, usually translated 'seize the day', taken from book 1 of the Roman poet Horace's work Odes.

Carpe Diem

Concordia Venus is a board game featuring action-retrieval, advantage-token, auction-dutch. Playtime is around 60–120 for 2–6 players with ancient, economic elements.

Concordia Venus

The fall of the Western Roman Empire, also called the fall of the Roman Empire or the fall of Rome, was the loss of central political control in the Western Roman Empire, a process in which the Empire failed to enforce its rule, and its vast territory was divided among several su

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Fall of Rome

Hannibal & Hamilcar is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, campaign-battle-card-driven, card-play-conflict-resolution. Playtime is around 40–200 for 2 players with ancient, political elements.

Hannibal & Hamilcar

Lords of Hellas is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, area-movement, card-play-conflict-resolution. Playtime is around 60–90 for 1–4 players with ancient, mythology elements.

Lords of Hellas

Teotihuacan: City of Gods is a board game featuring area-movement, end-game-bonuses, events. Playtime is around 90–120 for 1–4 players with ancient, city-building elements.

Teotihuacan: City of Gods

Yellow & Yangtze is a board game featuring action-points, area-majority-influence, hand-management. Playtime is around 90 for 2–4 players with ancient, civilization elements.

Yellow & Yangtze

Dice Forge is a board game featuring deck-bag-and-pool-building, dice-rolling, open-drafting. Playtime is around 45 for 2–4 players with ancient, dice elements.

Dice Forge

Gentes may refer to:Gens, in Ancient Rome, a family of those sharing the same nomen and a common ancestor
Gens (behaviour), in animal behavior, a host-specific lineage of a brood parasite species
Ad gentes, a decree by the Second Vatican Council

Gentes

Mythic Battles: Pantheon is a board game featuring area-movement, campaign-battle-card-driven, command-cards. Playtime is around 60–90 for 2–4 players with ancient, card-game elements.

Mythic Battles: Pantheon

EXIT: The Game – The Pharaoh's Tomb is a board game featuring cooperative-game. Playtime is around 45–90 for 1–6 players with ancient, deduction elements.

EXIT: The Game – The Pharaoh's Tomb

Imhotep was an Egyptian chancellor to the King Djoser, possible architect of Djoser's step pyramid, and high priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopolis. Very little is known of Imhotep as a historical figure, but in the 3,000 years following his death, he was gradually glorified and

Imhotep

The International Nuclear Information System (INIS) hosts one of the world's largest collections of published information on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_Information_System

Inis

Mare Nostrum: Empires is a board game featuring area-movement, dice-rolling, set-collection. Playtime is around 90–120 for 3–5 players with ancient, civilization elements.

Mare Nostrum: Empires

Santorini, officially Thira or Thera, is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast from the mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago formed by the Santorini caldera. It is the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of

Santorini

Professor Bernice Surprise Summerfield, or simply Benny, is a fictional character created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishing's range of original full-length Doctor Who novels, the New Adventures. The New Adventures were authorised

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernice_Summerfield

The Oracle of Delphi

7 Wonders Duel is a 2015 two-player strategy card game designed by Antoine Bauza and Bruno Cathala with art from Miguel Coimbra. A spinoff of 7 Wonders, the game was published by Repos Production and achieved commercial success.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_Wonders_Duel

7 Wonders Duel

Elysium, otherwise known as the Elysian Fields, Elysian Plains or Elysian Realm, is a conception of the afterlife that developed over time and was maintained by some Greek religious and philosophical sects and cults. It was initially separated from the Greek underworld—the realm

Elysium

Imperial Settlers is a 2014 city-building themed card-driven strategy board game published by Polish company Portal Games and designed by Maciej Obszański and Ignacy Trzewiczek.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Settlers

Imperial Settlers

ZhanGuo is a board game featuring area-majority-influence, hand-management. Playtime is around 60–120 for 2–4 players with ancient elements.

ZhanGuo

Concordia (mythology) is the Roman goddess who embodies agreement in marriage and society.

Concordia

Clash of Cultures is a board game featuring action-points, area-majority-influence, critical-hits-and-failures. Playtime is around 180–240 for 2–4 players with ancient, city-building elements.

Clash of Cultures

Kemet, kmt may refer to:Kemet or km.t, a name for Egypt in the ancient era
KEMET Corporation, American capacitor manufacturer
Kemetism, revivals of the ancient Egyptian religion
Kmt (magazine), an academic journal of ancient Egypt
A fictional compound for protecting against drago

Kemet

Spartacus: A Game of Blood and Treachery is a board game featuring auction-bidding, betting-and-bluffing, bribery. Playtime is around 120–180 for 3–4 players with ancient, dice elements.

Spartacus: A Game of Blood and Treachery

Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar is a board game featuring bias, end-game-bonuses, once-per-game-abilities. Playtime is around 90 for 2–4 players with ancient, civilization elements.

Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar

Trajan was a Roman emperor from AD 98 to 117, remembered as the second of the Five Good Emperors of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty. He was a philanthropic ruler and a successful soldier-emperor who presided over one of the greatest military expansions in Roman history, during which,

Trajan

7 Wonders

The Cyclades are an island group in the Aegean Sea, southeast of mainland Greece and a former administrative prefecture of Greece. They are one of the island groups which constitute the Aegean archipelago. The name refers to the archipelago forming a circle around the sacred isla

Cyclades

Egizia is a board game featuring bias, end-game-bonuses, open-drafting. Playtime is around 90 for 2–4 players with ancient, farming elements.

Egizia

The Colosseum is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum. It is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is the largest standing amphitheatre in the world. Construction began under the Emperor Vespasian in 72 and w

Colosseum

Thebes or Thebae may refer to one of the following places:Thebes, Egypt, capital of Egypt under the 11th, early 12th, 17th and early 18th Dynasties
Thebes, Greece, a city in Boeotia
Phthiotic Thebes or Thessalian Thebes, an ancient city at Nea Anchialos
Thebae (Cilicia), a town o

Thebes

Commands & Colors: Ancients is a board wargame designed by Richard Borg, Pat Kurivial, and Roy Grider, and published by GMT Games in 2006. It is based on Borg's Commands & Colors system using some elements similar to his other games such as Commands & Colours: Napoleonics, The Gr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commands_%26_Colors%3A_Ancients

Commands & Colors: Ancients

Glory to Rome is a 2005 card-based board game designed by Ed Carter and Carl Chudyk and published by Cambridge Games. It received positive reviews, but in 2010s it became infamous due to being out of print which led to greatly inflated prices in the secondary market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_to_Rome

Glory to Rome

The Downfall of Pompeii is a board game featuring events, grid-movement, hand-management. Playtime is around 45 for 2–4 players with ancient elements.

The Downfall of Pompeii

Amun was a major ancient Egyptian deity who appears as a member of the Hermopolitan Ogdoad. Amun was attested from the Old Kingdom together with his wife Amunet. His oracle in Siwa Oasis, located in Western Egypt near the Libyan Desert, remained the only oracle of Amun throughout

Amun-Re

Schotten Totten is a card game designed by Reiner Knizia, first published in 1999. The name is a portmanteau of the German words "Schotten" and "Hottentotten" (Hottentots).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schotten_Totten

Battle Line

Ra or Re was the ancient Egyptian deity of the Sun. By the Fifth Dynasty, in the 25th and 24th centuries BC, Ra had become one of the most important gods in ancient Egyptian religion, identified primarily with the noon-day Sun. Ra ruled in all parts of the created world: the sky,

Tikal is the ruin of an ancient city, which was likely to have been called Yax Mutal, found in a rainforest in Guatemala. It is one of the largest archaeological sites and urban centers of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the archaeological region of the Peté

Tikal

Tigris and Euphrates is a tabletop eurogame designed by Reiner Knizia and first published in 1997 by Hans im Glück. Before its publication, it was highly anticipated by German gamers hearing rumors of a "gamer's game" designed by Knizia. Tigris and Euphrates won first prize in th

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris_and_Euphrates

Tigris & Euphrates

Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage is a 1996 board game published by Avalon Hill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal%3A_Rome_vs._Carthage

Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage

The Republic of Rome is a board game featuring auction-once-around, bribery, critical-hits-and-failures. Playtime is around 300 for 1–6 players with ancient, negotiation elements.

The Republic of Rome

A civilization is any complex society characterized by the development of the state, social stratification, urbanization, and symbolic systems of communication beyond signed or spoken languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization

Ancient

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