1. Northern Mesopotamia and Syria J. R. Kupper; 2. Egypt: from the death of Ammenemes III to Seqenenre II William C. Hayes; 3. Palestine in the Middle Bronze Age Kathleen M. Keyton; 4. Greece and the Aegean Islands in the Middles Bronze Age John L. Caskey; 5. The maturity of Minoan civilization F. Matz; 6. Cyprus in the Middle Bronze Age H. W. Catling; 7. Hammurabi and the end of his dynasty C. J. Gadd; 8. Anatolia c. 1750–1600 BC O. R. Gurney; 9. Persia c. 1800–1550 BC O. Walther Hinz; 10. Egypt: from the expulsion of the Hyksos to Amenophis I T. G. H. James; 11. Egypt: internal affairs from Tuthmosis I to the death of Amenophis III William C. Hayes; 12. Syria c. 1550–1400 BC Margaret S. Drower; 13. Palestine in the time of the eighteenth dynasty Kathleen M. Keyton; 14. The Zenith of Minoan civilization F. Matz; 15. The linear scripts S. Dow and J. Chadwick; 16. The rise of Mycenaean civilization Frank H. Stubbings; 17. Anatolia C. 1660–1380 BC O. R. Gursey; 18. Troy VI Carl W. Blegen; 19. The archaeological evidence of the Second Millennium BC on the Persian Plateau Robert H. Dyson.