Early antiquity /I.M. Diakonoff, volume editor ; Philip L. Kohl, project editor ; translated by Alexander Kirjanov.
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, (c)1991.
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 461 pages) : maps.
General outline of the first period of the history of the ancient world and the problem of the ways of development ; The city states of Sumer ; Early despotisms in Mesopotamia / The old Babylonian period of Mesopotamian history / Sumerian culture / The predynastic period and the early and the old kingdoms in Egypt ; The Middle Kingdom of Egypt and the Hyksos invasion ; The New Kingdom of Egypt / The culture of ancient Egypt / The first states in India and the pre-urban cultures of Central Asia and Iran / Asshur, Mitanni, and Arrapkhe / Mesopotamia in the sixteenth to eleventh centuries B.C. / The Hittite kingdom / I.M. Diakonoff -- N.V. Kozyreva -- V.K. Afanasieva -- I.V. Vinodradov -- I.A. Lapis -- G.F. Il'yin and I.M. Diakonoff -- N.B. Jankowska -- V.A. Jakobson -- G.G. Giorgadze. Syria, Phoenicia, and Palestine in the third and second millennia B.C. / The world of Crete and Mycenae ; Greece of the eleventh to ninth centuries B.C. in the Homeric epics / Phoenician and Greek colonization / India, Central Asia, and Iran in the first half of the first millennium B.C. / The first states in China ; China in the first half of the first millennium B.C. / I.M. Diakonoff -- Yu V. Andreyev -- Yu. B. Tsirkin -- G.F. Il'yin and I.M. Diakonoff -- T.V. Stepugina.