The geography of the Middle East and its history down to 500 A.D. -- Elam before the coming of the Indo-Europeans -- Sumer: From the beginnings of art to the end of the early Dynastic period -- Sumer and Akkad; The Sargonid age and the third dynasty of Ur to the time of Hammurabi -- Syria and Palestine: From the earliest times until the conquest of Alexander -- The Hurri and the Hittites -- Anatolia, 1200-330 B.C. -- Assyria and Neo-Babylonia -- Graeco-Roman art in the Middle East