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)
