1. From history to prehistory -- 2. The setting of the stage -- 3. The oldest Egyptian farmers -- 4. Africans and Asiatics on the Nile -- 5. The rise of the pharaohs -- 6. The colonization of Mesopotamia -- 7. The urban revolution in Mesopotamia -- 8. The early dynastic period -- 9. Indian civilization in the Third Millennium B.C. -- 10. From the Tigris to the Indus -- 11. Between the horns of the fertile crescent -- 12. Proofs of diffusion
Notes
"First published as the Most Ancient East in 1928"--Title page verse