1. Introduction Part 1: Land and Land Use 2. Babylonian Countrysides3. Land and Land Use: The Middle Euphrates Valley4. Agricultural Techniques5. Urban Form in the First MillenniumPart 2: Material Culture 6. Architecture in the Old Babylonian Period7. Babylonian Seals8. Babylonian Sources of Exotic Raw Materials9. Cloth in the Babylonian World10. The Babylonian Visual Image11. Food and Drink in BabyloniaPart 3: Economic Life 12. Economy of Ancient Mesopotamia: A General Outline13. The Old Babylonian Economy14. Aspects of Society and Economy in the later Old Babylonian Period15. The Babylonian Economy in the First Millennium BC16. The Egibi FamilyPart 4: Society and Politics 17. Social Configurations in Early Dynastic Babylonia (c. 2500-2334 B.C.) 18. Palace and the Temple in Babylonia19. Power, Economy and Social Organization in Babylonia20. Arameans and Chaldeans: Environment and Society21. Women and Gender in BabyloniaPart 5: Religion 22. The Role and Function of Goddesses in Mesopotamia23. Inanna and Ishtar in the Babylonian World24. The Babylonian god Marduk25. Divination Culture and Handling of the Future26. Witchcraft Literature in MesopotamiaPart 6: Intellectual Life: Cuneiform Writing and Learning 27. Incantations within Akkadian Medical Texts28. Writing, Sending, and Reading Letters in the Amorite World29. Mathematics, Metrology, and Professional Numeracy30. Babylonian Lexical Lists31. Gilgamesh and the Literary Traditions of Ancient Mesopotamia32. Babylonian Astral Science33. Omens Concerned with Human Behaviour34. Late Babylonian Intellectual LifePart 7: International Relations: Babylonia and the Ancient Near Eastern World 35. Egypt and Babylon36. A View from Hattusa37. Babylonian Relations with the Levant during the Kassite Period38. Looking down the Tigris: The Interrelations between Assyria and Babylonia39. The View from Jerusalem: Biblical Responses to the Babylonian Presence40. Babylonia and Persia