Beyond Babylon: art, trade, and diplomacy in the second millennium B.C

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 Hattite 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.

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 --