- Introduction
- The Great Wall of China
- Introduction: Walls, Walls, and Yet Again Walls
- Chapter 1: The Land, the People, and the Language
- Chapter 2: Origin Stories
- Chapter 3: The Beginning of Chinese Civilization
- Chapter 4: Confucius
- Chapter 5: The Way of the Old Master
- Chapter 6: The Qin Dynasty (221 – 206 BC)
- Chapter 7: The Han Dynasty (206 BC – AD 220)
- Chapter 8: The Era of Division (220 – 581)
- Chapter 9: The Tang Dynasty (581 – 960)
- Chapter 10: The Song Dynasty (960 – 1260)
- Chapter 11: The Yuan Dynasty (1260 – 1368)
- Chapter 12: The Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644)
- Chapter 13: The Early Qing Dynasty (1644 – 1793)
- Chapter 14: The Opium War
- Chapter 15: God’s Second Son
- Chapter 16: Radicals and Reactionaries
- Chapter 17: A Family Affair
- Chapter 18: Two Faces of Revolution
- Chapter 19: The Long March
- Chapter 20: A Disease of the Skin
- Chapter 21: Dubious Allies
- Chapter 22: A People’s Republic
- Chapter 23: A Great Leap Forward?
- The Colossus of Rhodes
- The Library and Lighthouse of Alexandria
- Chapter 1: The Founding
- Chapter 2: The Beautiful Corpse
- Chapter 3: A Museum and a Library
- Chapter 4: A Lighthouse
- Chapter 5: Alexandrian Mathematics
- Chapter 6: Alexandrian Astronomy
- Chapter 7: Alexandrian Medicine
- Chapter 8: Literary Alexandria
- Chapter 9: A Declining Power and a Rising One
- Chapter 10: Cleopatra and Caesar
- Chapter 11: Cleopatra and Antony
- Chapter 12: A Fresh Start
- Chapter 13: The Machine Man of Alexandria
- Chapter 14: The Last of the Alexandrian Star Gazers
- Chapter 15: The Prophet from Galilee
- Chapter 16: Incarnations of Christ
- Chapter 17: One Religion, One Dogma, One Book
- Chapter 18: Christianity Supreme
- Chapter 19: Conflict and Conquest
- Epilogue: The Alexandria You are Losing
- Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading
- The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
- The Oracle of Delphi
- Chapter 1: The Center of the World
- Chapter 2: The House of Cadmus and the Cult of Dionysus
- Chapter 3: The Adventures of Perseus
- Chapter 4: The Birthright of Ion
- Chapter 5: The Tragedy of Oedipus
- Chapter 6: The Labors of Heracles
- Chapter 7: The Voyage of the Argonauts
- Chapter 8: The Suffering of Heroes and Women
- Chapter 9: The Siege of Troy
- Chapter 10: The Revenge of the Gods
- Chapter 11: The Justice of Men
- Chapter 12: The Reforms of Lycurgus
- Chapter 13: The Constitution of Solon
- Chapter 14: The Fortune of Croesus
- Chapter 15: The Wisdom and Folly of Athens
- Chapter 16: The Shame of Cleomenes and the Glory of Miltiades
- Chapter 17: The Redemption of Leonidas
- Chapter 18: The Humbling of Xerxes
- Chapter 19: The Apex of Greece
- Chapter 20: The Choice of War
- Chapter 21: The Suicide of Greece
- Chapter 22: The Conquest of Greece
- Epilogue: Myth and History
- Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading
- Notes on Sources
- The Pyramids of Giza
- Chapter 1: The Charlatan and the Gossip
- Chapter 2: The Mystic and the Measurer
- Chapter 3: The Soldiers and the Savants
- Chapter 4: The Consul and the Captain
- Chapter 5: The Captain and the Sphinx
- Chapter 6: Khafre and the Giant
- Chapter 7: The Polymath and the Specialist
- Chapter 8: Menkaure and the Colonel
- Chapter 9: The Philologists and the Gatekeeper
- Chapter 10: The Publisher and the Astronomer
- Chapter 11: The Astronomer and the Archaeologist
- Chapter 12: Tourists, Fabulists, and Diggers
- Chapter 13: The Gift of the Nile
- Chapter 14: A God’s Final Resting Place
- Chapter 15: Laying the Groundwork at Giza
- Chapter 16: How to Build a Pyramid
- Chapter 17: Two More Pyramids — and a Sphinx
- Chapter 18: 3600 Years
- Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading
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