Cotterell Arthur (ed.). The Penguin Encyclopedia of Ancient Civilizations

Penguin Books, 1988. — 367 p. — ISBN: 978-0-14-011434-8.The ancient civilizations of the world, the first social structures in which culture and religion were born, are the subject of this comprehensive, wide-ranging encyclopedia.
The work of over thirty international experts, including Colin Renfrew, O. R. Gurney, Richard Leakey and many other leading acadenrics of the field of ancient history. The Penguin Encydopedia of Ancient Civilizations provides a fascinating overview of the prehistoric world and a detailed analysis of separate ancient civilizations. The art, architecture, language, mythology and chronology of early societies as diverse as ancient Egypt, Troy, India, West Asia, South America and Europe are fully discussed, and there is a special section of references for further reading.
Structured to enable the reader to draw together contemporary events and to locate geographically connected civilizations, like those that flourished in Mesopotamia, the encyclopedia contains over 300 illustrations and twenty-eight maps, making it for both students and the general reader.Preface (Arthur Cotterell).
Prehistory (Richard E. Leaky).
The Emergence of Civilization (Colin Renfrew).
Egypt.
Ancient Egypt (Colin Walters).
The Sea Peoples (N. K. Sandars).
Ptolemaic Egypt (Colin Walters).
Early Roman Egypt (Colin Walters).
Late Roman and Byzantine Egypt (Colin Walters).
The Religion of Ancient Egypt (J. M. Plumley).
West Asia.
Sumer (Thorkild Jacobsen).
Akkad (Thorkild Jacobsen).
Babylonia (A. K. Grayson).
Assyria (A. K. Grayson).
Mitanni (A. K. Grayson).
The Hittites (O. R. Gurney).
Urartu and Armenia (David M. Lang).
Syria (William Culican).
Phoenicia (William Culican).
Israel (Helmer Ringgren).
Troy (J. T. Hooker).
Phrygia and Lydia (T. R. Bryce).
Persia (T. Cuyler Young. Jr.).
After Alexander (E. J. Keall).
Mesopotamian Religion (Thorkild Jacobsen).
The Evolution of the Alphabet (William Culican).
India.
The Indus Civilization (Arthur Cotterell).
The Aryan Invasion of India (T. Burrow).
Early Imperial India (A. L. Basham).
Hinduism (Wendy D. O'Flaherty).
Buddhism (Trevor Ling).
Jainism (Trevor Ling).
Europe.
The Minoans (R. F. Willetts).
The Mycenaeans (J. T. Hooker).
Archaic Greece (J. T. Hooker).
Classical Greece (W. G. Forrest).
Macedon (N. G. L. Hammond).
Carthage (B. H. Warmington).
Sicily and Magna Graecia (B. H. Warmington).
The Etruscans (R. M. Ogilvie).
Rome before the Republic (R. M. Ogilvie).
Republican Rome (R. M. Ogilvie).
The Early Roman Empire (Wolfgang Liebeschuetz).
The Later Roman Empire (Robert Browning).
Early Christianity (R. A. Markus).
The Graeco-Roman City (R. F. Willetts).
The Greek Mind (John Gould).
The Roman Mind (Kenneth Quinn).
China.
Shang (Arthur Cotterell).
Chou (Arthur Cotterell).
Imperial Unification (Arthur Cotterell).
The Crisis of the Early Empire (Arthur Cotterell).
Early Science and Technology (Ho Peng Yoke).
Chinese Art (William Watson).
America.
The Olmecs (Ignacio Bernal).
Teotihuacan (Robert S. Santley).
The Toltecs (Richard Diehl).
The Maya (Gordon R. Willey).
The Aztecs (H. B. Nicholson).
The Incas (Geoffrey W. Conrad).