INTRODUCTION -- Geography and economy -- Sources -- People -- Chronology -- Government: the city state -- FROM SARGON TO HAMMURAPI -- Sargon of Agade and his successors -- Akkadian empire and administration -- The fall of Agade -- The Third Dynasty of Ur (2112-2004) -- The fall of Ur -- Successors to the Third Dynasty of Ur -- The Martu or Amorites -- The Larsa kings -- THE OLD BABYLONIAN PERIOD -- Babylon under the First Dynasty -- Babylon's rise to power -- Babylonian society a the time of Hammurapi -- Administration -- Babylonian law -- Misharum edicts -- Old Babylonian cities -- KASSITES AND CHALDAEANS -- The fall of Babylon -- The Kassites -- Kara indash and Kurigalzu -- The Amarna Age -- Babylonians, Hittites and Assyrians -- The fall of the Kassites -- Kassite archaeology: Dur Kurigalzu -- Kassite art and architecture: southern cities -- Kassites in retrospect -- Post Kassite Babylon -- The Fifth to the Eighth Dynasties of Babylon -- The Chaldaeans -- ASSYRIANS, BABYLONIANS, PERSIANS AND GREEKS -- Post Kassite art and architecture -- The Neo Babylonian Dynasty -- Nebuchadrezzar -- Nabonidus -- The Persians in Babylon -- Babylon under Macedonian rule -- Hellenistic Babylon -- The site of Babylon -- The palaces -- The Processional Way and the Ishtar Gate -- The temples -- Private Houses -- The Babylon of Persian and Greek times -- Neo Babylonian remains outside the capital -- THE LEGACY OF BABYLON -- Education -- Literature -- Religion -- Official religion: the service of the gods -- Personal religion -- Divination -- Medicine -- Mathematics -- Weights, measures and exchange -- Astronomy -- Horoscopic astrology -- Babylonian technology -- Food and farming -- In retrospect -- MESOPOTAMIAN CHRONOLOGY