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"Ancient science" as a book category covers the study and interpretation of scientific knowledge, practices, and technologies from the ancient world — including but not limited to Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome, South and East Asia, Mesoamerica, and other early civilisations. It embraces topics such as astronomy, mathematics, medicine, engineering, metallurgy, agriculture, natural philosophy and craft-based techniques, and explores how these disciplines were observed, recorded, taught and applied in their cultural and religious contexts. Books in this genre range from accessible popular histories and translations of primary texts to scholarly studies using archaeology, philology and history of ideas to reconstruct instruments, methods and knowledge transmission. Central themes include the interplay between myth and empirical observation, the social uses of technical expertise, and how ancient innovations laid foundations for later scientific developments. Readers will find interdisciplinary narratives that combine evidence from texts, artifacts and experiments to illuminate how people in antiquity understood and manipulated the natural world.

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