Part 1. lecture 1. The Iraq Museum

lecture 2. Geography and environment

lecture 3. Discovering Mesopotamia

lecture 4. Archaeological methods

lecture 5. Farming and early settlements

lecture 6. The Uruk phenomenon

lecture 7. Writing

lecture 8. Temples

lecture 9. Mesopotamian deities

lecture 10. Gilgamesh - hero and king

lecture 11. The early dynastic period

lecture 12. Warfare and diplomacy.

Part 2. lecture 13. The Royal Cemetery at Ur

lecture 14. The Akkadians

lecture 15. Ideology of kingship - Naram-Sin and Gudea

lecture 16. The Ur III dynasty

lecture 17. Life in a Mesopotamian city

lecture 18. Food and drink

lecture 19. Assyrian trade networks

lecture 20. Hammurabi of Babylon

lecture 21. Zimri-Lim of Mari

lecture 22. Laws

lecture 23. Medicine, science, and math

lecture 24. Poetry and literature.

Part 3. lecture 25. Internationalism

lecture 26. Assyrian expansion

lecture 27. Sargon II

lecture 28. Ideology of empire

lecture 29. Control and revolt

lecture 30. Medes and the neo-Babylonian state

lecture. 31. The rise of the Achaemenids

lecture 32. Persians in Egypt and Greece

lecture 33. Xerxes's invasion of Greece

lecture 34. Persian and art culture

lecture 35. Alexander the Great

lecture 36. After Alexander.