The archaeologist D. G. Hogarth surveys the peoples and powers of Western Asia in a series of snapshots: the East in 1000, 800, 600 and 400 B.C. Assyrians, Babylonians, Hittite successors, Phrygians, Medes and Persians rise and fall, until the story ends with the victory of the West under Alexander.
A compact, clear overview that remains a good first map of the ancient Near East. Download the free EPUB.