The ancient Near East as a historical problem
The geography of the ancient Near East
The Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods
The rise and fall of the first urbanisation
Mesopotamia in the early dynastic period
The crisis of the second urbanisation
The "intermediate period" of Isin and Larsa
Anatolia in the old Hittite period
The late Bronze Age : technologies and ideologies
Syria and the Levant in the late Bronze Age
The middle Assyrian kingdom
Crisis and reorganization
The Arameans in Syria and Mesopotamia
Assyria, Babylonia, and Elam in the 12th to 9th century BC
The rise of the neo-Assyrian empire
The structure of the neo-Assyrian empire
The periphery of the neo-Assyrian empire
The fall of the empire and the rise of the Chaldeans
The Medes and the rise of the Persians.
