"True History of Ancient Times" is a new book by Oleksiy Mustafin, intended not only for teenagers, but also for adults. A bright and exciting puzzle, made up of stories about events that happened thousands of years ago, interesting facts from the lives of prominent people of the past, from the stories of individual countries and peoples, before the eyes of the reader turns into a general panorama of the most ancient era in the history of mankind. Why did the first civilizations arise where people's food was more uniform? How did the vanity of the Persian king help decipher the writing of the people that disappeared two millennia before his birth? When was the first battle in history and how was the location of the last one determined? Why did the Maya paint their temples red, while the Babylonians preferred blue? Would democracy have appeared if the Greeks did not have an alphabet and metal money? And what imperial hobby turned out to be more attractive than power over a state that spanned three continents? The answers to these and many other questions allow not only to learn about interesting facts, but also to understand the "logic of history".