From an antique land : ancient and modern / Julian Huxley.

Includes index.

1. Introduction – 2. The Land – 3. Byblos: Doorway of Many Pasts – 4. Baalbek and the Proliferation of Divinity – 5. Lebanon: Phoenician Land – 6. Turkey: Past and Present – 7. Modern Jordan and Ancient Petra – 8. Damascus, Port of the Desert – 9. Palmyra, the Caravan Empire – 10. North Syria and its Dead Cities – 11. Baghdad and the Twin Rivers – 12. The Birth of Civilization – 13. Persia and its Blue Mosques – 14. The On the Banks of the Nile – 15. Pyramids – 16. The Egyptian Past – 17. Knossos and the Minoan Civilization – 18. And Last – 19. Both Sides of the Jordan Rift -- General map of the Middle East – Map of Syria and the Lebanon – Population Chart of the Middle East.