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.

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.