Part 1. The rise of civilizaton. Lecture 1. The Iraq Museum
Lecture 2. Geography and environment
Lecture 3. Discovering Mesopotamia
Lecture 4. Archaeological methods
Lecture 5. Farming and early settlements
Lecture 6. The Uruk phenomenon
Lecture 9. Mesopotamian deities
Lecture 10. Gilgamesh - hero and king
Lecture 11. The early dynastic period
Lecture 12. Warfare and diplomacy.
Part 2. The great city-states. Lecture 13. The Royal Cemetery at Ur
Lecture 14. The Akkadians
Lecture 15. Ideology of kingship - Naram-Sin and Gudea
Lecture 16. The Ur III dynasty
Lecture 17. Life in a Mesopotamian city
Lecture 18. Food and drink
Lecture 19. Assyrian trade networks
Lecture 20. Hammurabi of Babylon
Lecture 21. Zimri-Lim of Mari
Lecture 23. Medicine, science, and math
Lecture 24. Poetry and literature.
Part 3. Empires of the East. Lecture 25. Internationalism
Lecture 26. Assyrian expansion
Lecture 28. Ideology of empire
Lecture 29. Control and revolt
Lecture 30. Medes and the neo-Babylonian state
Lecture. 31. The rise of the Achaemenids
Lecture 32. Persians in Egypt and Greece
Lecture 33. Xerxes's invasion of Greece
Lecture 34. Persian and art culture
Lecture 35. Alexander the Great
Lecture 36. After Alexander.