Illustrations

Greek and Phoenician Colonization Hellenic Trade Routes, 300 BC Greco-Persian Wars Ancient Egypt The Beginnings of Historic Greece Greek Colonies of the Northern Black Sea Babylon at the time of Hammurabi Detail of the Ishtar Gate Babylon at the time of the Kassites The Oriental Empires Hanging Gardens of Babylon Bronze Age Sword Temple of Aphaea Assyrian Lion Hunt The Pyramids Ruins of Persepolis Lydian Tribute-Bearer All Nations Gate at Persepolis Ranks of Immortals Ramesses II Roman Toga Hallstatt & La Tène Cultures Mycenean Greece and the Orient about 1450 BC The Assyrian Empire and the Region about the Eastern Mediterranean, 750-625 BC The Persian Empire Ancient Palestine Royal Lion Hunt on Chariot Parthenon Greek & Phoenician Colonies