The Ancient World – The Egyptian and Hittite Empires to 1000 BC (English Edition)

Once more the history of Egypt holds the premier position, owing mainly to its relations with south-west Asia and the peoples of the East Mediterranean. But Asia Minor now assumes a unique significance, partly because, as the bridge between Europe and Asia, it was the center of the most intricate developments of the period, and partly also because the rich store of cuneiform tablets discovered at Boghaz Keui, and the problems of the Hittites, and all their ramifications are proving to be of more fundamental importance than could ever have been suspected. Accordingly, chapters on the peoples of Asia Minor and of Europe form an appropriate introduction, and deal with linguistic problems, and with certain important migrations...

Contents include:

THE PEOPLES OF ASIA MINOR
THE PEOPLES OF EUROPE
THE FOUNDATION AND EXPANSION OF THE EGYPTIAN EMPIRE
THE REIGN OF THUTMOSE III
THE ZENITH OF EGYPTIAN POWER AND THE REIGN OF AMENHOTEP III
IKHNATON, THE RELIGIOUS REVOLUTIONARY
THE AGE OF RAMSES II
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE EGYPTIAN EMPIRE
CONTEMPORARY LIFE AND THOUGHT IN EGYPT
ASSYRIA
THE HITTITES OF ASIA MINOR
THE KEFTIANS, PHILISTINES, AND OTHER PEOPLES OF THE LEVANT
SYRIA AND PALESTINE IN THE LIGHT OF EXTERNAL EVIDENCE
THE RISE OF ISRAEL