History of Babylonia and Assyria
2 Volume Set

Table of Contents

Volume 1: Preface
Book I. Prolegomena:
1. Early travellers and early decipherers
2. Grotefend and Rawlinson
3. Early explorers in Babylonia
4. Explorations in Assyria and Babylonia, 1734–1820
5. Excavations in Assyria and Babylonia, 1843–54
6. The decipherment of Assyrian
7. The decipherment of Sumerian and Vannic
8. Explorations in Assyria and Babylonia, 1872–1900
9. The sources
10. The lands of Babylonia and Assyria
11. The peoples of Babylonia and Assyria
12. The chronology
Book II. The History of Babylonia:
1. The history of Babylonia to the fall of Larsa
2. The first and second dynasties of Babylon
3. The Kassite dynasty
4. The dynasty of Isin. Volume 2: Book III. The History of Assyria:
1. The beginnings of Assyria
2. Tiglathpileser I and his sons
3. Increase of Assyrian power over Babylonia
4. Reign of Asshurnazirpal
5. Shalmaneser II to Asshur-Nirari II
6. The reigns of Tiglathpileser III and Shalmaneser IV
7. The reign of Sargon II
8. The reign of Sennacherib
9. The reign of Esarhaddon
10. The reign of Asshurbanapal
11. The fall of Assyria
Book IV. The History of the Chaldean Empire:
1. The reign of Nabopolassar
2. The reign of Nebuchadrezzar
3. The last years of the Chaldean empire
Appendices
Indices.