House Atreides can trace its lineage back to ancient Greece. Though the Expanded Dune universe by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson offers some contradicting dates and accounts to the Dune Encyclopedia the Encyclopedia provides the most comprehensive timeline of the dune universe. Though in the Original Herbert Dune books Earth is lost in the mist of time offers dates stretching all the way from humanities early beginnings on Earth to a few thousand years after the death of the God Emperor