Land and peoples : an introduction
Discoveries and excavations
First kings to the end of the Great Rebellion, c.1894-c.1732
Law, education, literature, and the path to supremacy
From the Great Rebellion to the end of the First Dynasty, c.1732-1592
The next six centuries : Kassite, Sealander, and Elamite kings, c.1593-979
In the shadow of Assyria, 978-625
Empire : Nabopolassar and Nebuchadnezzar II, 625-562
From the death of Nebuchadnezzar II to the death of Cambyses, 561-522
Darius I to Alexander III, and Seleucid to Parthian rule
First Parthian Conquest, 141 BC, to the visit of Trajan in AD 116.
