Table of Contents
List of maps; Acknowledgements for photographs; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. The prehistory of the Balkans to 1000 BC; 2. Babylonia; 3. Assyria; 4. Urartu; 5. The Syro-Hittite States; 6. Phoenicia and the Punic world; 7. Israel and Judah; 8. Egypt; 9. Cyprus; 10. The native kingdoms of Anatolia; 11. The Thracians; 12. The Scythians; 13. The Greek world; 14. The alphabet and Greece.