Archaeological History Of The Ancient Middle East

Jack Finegan

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)