Director's Foreword / Introduction / The Middle Bronze Age / Babylon / Mari / Ebla / The Development of Trade Routes in the Early Second Millennium B.C. / Ugarit / Byblos / The Cedar Forest / Minoan Kamares Ware in the Levant / Egypt and the Levant / The Tod Treasure / Lapis Lazuli / The Old Assyrian Merchant Colonies / Central Anatolian Ivories / Technical Notes on the Metropolitan Museum Ivories / Texts, Trade, and Travelers / Ornaments of Interaction: The Art of the Jeweler / Egypt, the Levant, and the Aegean from the Hyksos Period to the Rise of the New Kingdom / Tell el-Dab'a in the Nile Delta / The Burial of Queen Ahhotep / Painted Palaces / The Wall Paintings of Thera and the Eastern Mediterranean / Minoan Artists at the Court of Avaris (Tell el-Dab'a) / Bull Leaping / Ritual and Royal Imagery / Board Games / The Horse in the Ancient Near East / The Late Bronze Age: Materials and Mechanisms of Trade and Cultural Exchange / The Amarna Letters / The Hittite Empire / Shapinuwa: A Capital of the Hittite State / Hattusa: Capital of the Hittite Empire / Literary and Cultural Connections / The Mitanni State / Alalakh (Tell Atchana) / Kassite Babylonia / The Middle Assyrian Period / Syrian Archaeological Excavations at Qatna / The Royal Palace at Qatna: Power and Prestige in the Late Bronze Age / Italian Archaeological Research at Qatna / Ugarit in the Late Bronze Age / Ugarit: Gateway to the Mediterranean / New Kingdom Egypt / Depictions of Foreign Emissaries in the Theban Tombs / Aegean Interactions with the Near East and Egypt during the Late Bronze Age / Mycenae / Mycenaean Thebes / The Uluburun Shipwreck and Late Bronze Age Trade / Cyprus: An International Nexus of Art and Trade / The Art of Exchange / Ivory, Shell, and Bone / Vitreous Materials / Legacy -- Bridges to Babylon: Homer, Anatolia, and the Levant / The Legacy of Ivory-Working Traditions in the Early First Millennium B.C. / Problems of Chronology: Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and the Syro-Levantine Region / Problems of Chronology: Egypt and the Aegean