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Catalog of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Nov. 18, 2008-Mar. 15, 2009, Includes bibliographical references and index, Director's Foreword / Philippe de Montebello -- Introduction / Joan Aruz -- The Middle Bronze Age / Mogens Trolle Larsen -- Babylon / Beatrice Andre-Salvini -- Mari / Jean-Claude Margueron -- Ebla / Paolo Matthiae -- The Development of Trade Routes in the Early Second Millennium B.C. / Michel Al-Maqdissi -- Ugarit / Bassam Jamous -- Byblos / Suzy Hakimian -- The Cedar Forest / Ira Spar -- Minoan Kamares Ware in the Levant / Robert B. Koehl -- Egypt and the Levant / Thomas Schneider -- The Tod Treasure / Genevieve Pierrat-Bonnefois -- Lapis Lazuli / Michele Casanova -- The Old Assyrian Merchant Colonies / Mogens Trolle Larsen -- Central Anatolian Ivories / Joan Aruz -- Technical Notes on the Metropolitan Museum Ivories / Jean-Francois De Laperouse -- Texts, Trade, and Travelers / Jack M. Sasson -- Ornaments of Interaction: The Art of the Jeweler / Kim Benzel -- Egypt, the Levant, and the Aegean from the Hyksos Period to the Rise of the New Kingdom / David O'Connor -- Tell el-Dab'a in the Nile Delta / Manfred Bietak -- The Burial of Queen Ahhotep / Peter Lacovara -- Painted Palaces / Joan Aruz -- The Wall Paintings of Thera and the Eastern Mediterranean / Christos G. Doumas -- Minoan Artists at the Court of Avaris (Tell el-Dab'a) / Manfred Bietak -- Bull Leaping / Joan Aruz -- Ritual and Royal Imagery / Joan Aruz -- Board Games / Irving Finkel -- The Horse in the Ancient Near East / Kim Benzel -- The Late Bronze Age: Materials and Mechanisms of Trade and Cultural Exchange / Mario Liverani -- The Amarna Letters / Ira Spar -- The Hittite Empire / Andreas Muller-Karpe -- Shapinuwa: A Capital of the Hittite State / Aygul Suel and Mustafa Suel -- Hattusa: Capital of the Hittite Empire / Andreas Schachner -- Literary and Cultural Connections / Gary Beckman -- The Mitanni State / Jean M. Evans -- Alalakh (Tell Atchana) / K. Aslih

Brochure for a symposium held Dec. 18 and Dec. 19, 2008 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This two-day symposium gathers leading international scholars to discuss a variety of topics related to the exhibition, Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C., which focuses on the extraordinary art created as a result of a sophisticated network of interaction that developed among kings, diplomats, merchants, and others in the ancient Near East.

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 8-Aug. 17, 2003

Brochure for a symposium held May 7 and May 8, 2003 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This book includes information on the following objects belonging to the Metropolitan Museum of Art: 21.88.14, The Year One: Empires and Trade Routes across the Ancient World -- The Mediterranean World: The Roman Empire -- Rome -- Gaul, Britain, and Pannonia -- Roman Egypt -- West and Central Asia -- South Arabia -- The Nabataeans -- Palmyra -- The Parthian Empire -- Asia -- South Asia: India, Pakistan, Afghanistan -- East Asia: China, Korea, Japan -- Southeast Asia: Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia -- The Americas, Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from Oct. 3, 2000 through Jan. 14, 2001, Authors of the articles include: Elizabeth J. Milleker, Christopher Lightfoot, Melanie Holcomb, Marsha Hill, Jean M. Evans, Joan Aruz, Denise Patry Leidy, Donald J. LaRocca, Steven Kossak, Julie Jones, Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-213) and index, Exhibition title: Year one : art of the ancient world east and west, "Two thousand years ago, artworks of astonishing variety were being created in far-flung regions of the world. This volume presents more than 150 works of art from western Europe, the Mediterranean, the Near East, India, China, Southeast Asia, and the Americas, and highlights the similarities that existed between the widely separated parts of the world in which they originated. Historical summaries accompanied by maps briefly describe the nature of each culture and the flow of power and peoples during the period centering around the Year One. An introductory essay offers both an overview and an account of the startling degree to which the ancient world was an interconnected one, crisscrossed by intrepid traders and adventurers who journeyed both east and west to bring back coveted goods and tantalizing scraps of information about exotic lands. The works of art included here are almost all in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art the book's authors are members of the Museum's curatorial staff representin

"Issued in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 2-August 13, 1995"--T.p. verso, Includes bibliographical references (p. 130-140) and index, "Translation from the German of all texts by the Berlin authors is by Russell Stockman"--T.p. verso, Exhibition title: Assyrian origins : discoveries at Ashur on the Tigris : antiquities in the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

Catalog of an exhibition held Nov. 17, 1992-Mar. 7, 1993 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-306) and index

Exhibition view of The Royal City of Susa: Ancient Near Eastern Treasures in the Louvre, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from November 17, 1992 to March 7, 1993.

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 10, 1987-January 10, 1988