Introduction / Joan Aruz The Middle Bronze Age / Mogens Trolle Larsen Babylon / Béatrice André-Salvini Mari / Jean-Claude Margueron Ebla / Paolo Matthiae The development of trade routes in the early second millennium B.C. / Michel Al-Maqdissi Ugarit / Bassam Jamous Byblos / Suzy Hakimian The Cedar forest / Ira Spar Minoan Kamares ware in the Levant / Robert B. Koehl Egypt and the Levant / Thomas Schneider The Tôd Treasure / Geneviève Pierrat-Bonnefois Lapis Lazuli / Michèle Casanova The old Assyrian merchant colonies / Mogens Trolle Larsen Central Anatolian ivories / Joan Aruz Technical notes on the Metropolitan Museum ivories / Jean-François de Lapérouse

Texts, trade, and travelers / Jack M. Sasson Ornaments of interaction: the art of the jeweler / Kim Benzel Egypt, the Levant, and the Aegean from the Hyksos period to the rise of the New Kingdom / David O'Connor Tell el-Dab'a in the Nile Delta / Manfred Bietak The burial of Queen Ahhotep / Peter Lacovara Painted palaces / Joan Aruz The wall paintings of Thera and the eastern Mediterranean / Christos G. Doumas Minoan artists at the Court of Avaris (Tell el-Dab'a) / Manfred Bietak Bull leaping / Joan Aruz Ritual and royal imagery / Joan Aruz Board games / Irving Finkel The horse in the ancient Near East / Kim Benzel

The Late Bronze Age: materials and mechanisms of trade and cultural exchange / Mario Liverani The Amarna letters / Ira Spar The Hittite Empire / Andreas Müller-Karpe Shapinuwa: a capital of the Hittite state / Aygül Süel and Mustafa Süel Hattusa: capital of the Hittite Empire / Andreas Schachner Literary and cultural connections / Gary Beckman The Mitanni state / Jean M. Evans Alalakh (Tell Atchana) / K. Aslihan Yener Kassite Babylonia / Jean M. Evans The Middle Assyrian period / Jean M. Evans Syrian archaeological excavations at Qatna / Michel Al-Maqdissi The Royal Palace at Qatna: power and prestige in the Late Bronze Age / Peter Pfälzner

Italian archaeological research at Qatna / Danièle Morandi Bonacossi

Ugarit in the Late Bronze Age / Bassam Jamous

Ugarit: gateway to the Mediterranean / Jean-Claude Margueron

New Kingdom Egypt / Thomas Schneider

Depictions of foreign emissaries in the Theban tombs / Sarah Graff

Aegean interactions with the Near East and Egypt during the Late Bronze Age / Robert B. Koehl

Mycenae / Lena Papazoglou-Manioudaki

Mycenaean Thebes / Vasilis Aravantinos

The Uluburun shipwreck and Late Bronze Age trade / Cemal Pulak

Cyprus: an international nexus of art and trade / Sophie Cluzan

The art of exchange / Joan Aruz

Ivory, shell, and bone / Annie Caubet

Vitreous materials / Annie Caubet

Bridges to Babylon: Homer, Anatolia, and the Levant / Sarah P. Morris

The legacy of ivory-working traditions in the early first millennium B.C. / Marian Feldman

Problems of chronology: Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and the Syro-Levantine region / Glenn M. Schwartz

Problems of chronology: Egypt and the Aegean / Eric H. Cline.