Hadar: The Legacy of Human Ancestors (4,000,000-100,000 BCE) / Christopher Howell
Makapansgat and Pinnacle Point: Three Million Years of Human Evolution in South Africa (3,000,000-2,000 BCE) / Andy I. R. Herries
Babylon: Rise of a Complex Urban Civilization (ca. 3700-539 BCE) / Melanie Sue Byrd
Athens: The Cradle of Western Civilization (900 BCE-324 CE) / Nadejda Popov
Xian: Eastern Gateway and Strategic Citadel (1049 BCE-907 CE) / Keith N. Knapp
Carthage: Gateway to the World Beyond the Mediterranean (ca. 800 BCE-700 CE) / Julia Clancy-Smith
Constantinople/Istanbul: A Vortex of Peoples and Cultures (324-1500) / Nina Ergin
Mecca: Pilgrimage and the Making of the Islamic World (400-1500) / Michael Christopher Low
Kilwa: A Commercial City in the Economic and Cultural Cross-Currents (1000-1500) / Erik Gilbert
Varanasi: The Microcosm of India and Exemplar of Balance (ca. 1200-1600 CE) / Nita Kumar
Samarkand: Political and Economic Hub Connecting East and West (1220-1660) / Reuel R. Hanks
Venice: A Center of International Exchange in the Renaissance World (1350-1550) / Maritere López
Potos:̕ A Motor of Global Change (1545-1600s) / Jane E. Mangan
Malacca: Cosmopolitan Trading Port of the Early Modern World (1500-1824) / Barbara Watson Andaya, Leonard Y. Andaya.