Table of Contents

Preface -- Mesopotamia and Related Areas -- Prehistoric (10,000-3500) and Protohistoric (3500-2900) Periods -- Early Dynastic Period (2900-2371) -- Old Akkadian (2371-2230) and Post-Akkadian (2230-2112) Periods -- New Sumerian Period (2112-2004) -- Old Babylonian Period (2004-1595) -- Middle Babylonian Period (1595-626) -- Hittites -- Assyrians -- New Babylonian Period (626-539) -- Persian Period (539-330) -- Egypt and Related Areas -- Prehistoric (10,000-45000) and Predynastic (4500-3100) Periods -- Early Dynastic Period, First and Second Dynasties (3100-2686) -- Old Kingdom, Third to Sixth Dynasties (2686-2181) -- First Intermediate Period, Seventh to Tenth Dynasties (2181-2040) -- Middle Kingdom, Eleventh and Twelfth Dynasties (2133-1786) -- Second Intermediate Period, Thirteenth to Seventeenth Dynasties (1786-1552) -- New Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty (1552-1306) -- New Kingdom, Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasties (1306-1070) -- Third Intermediate Period, Twenty-First to Twenty-Fourth Dynasties (1069-715) -- Late Dynastic Period, Twenty-Fifth to Thirty-First Dynasties (716-332)