For the special history of Babylonia and Assyria and their Empires, R. W. Rogers' _History of Babylonia and Assyria_, 2 vols., has been kept up to date and is the most convenient summary for an English reader. H. Winckler's _History of Babylonia and Assyria_ (translated from the German by J. A. Craig, 1907) is more brilliant and suggestive, but needs to be used with more caution. A. T. Olmstead's _Western Asia in the Days of Sargon of Assyria_ (1908) is an instructive study of the Assyrian Empire at its height.
For the Hittite Empire and civilization J. Garstang's _The Land of the Hittites_ (1910) is the best recent book which aims at being comprehensive. But it must be borne in mind that this subject is in the melting-pot at present, that excavations now in progress have added greatly to the available evidence, and that very few of the Boghazkeui archives were published when Garstang's book was issued. D. G. Hogarth's articles on the Hittites, in Enc. Brit, and Enc. Brit. Year-book, summarize some more recent research; but there is no compendium of Hittite research which is really up to date.
For Semitic Syrian history, Rogers and Winckler, as cited above, will probably be found sufficient; and also for the Urartu peoples. For Western Asia Minor and the Greeks, besides D.G. Hogarth's _Ionia and the East_, the new edition of Beloch's _Griechische Geschichte_ gives all, and more than all, that the general reader will require. If German is a difficulty to him, he must turn to J.B. Bury's _History of Greece_ and to the later part of Hall's _Ancient History of the Near East_, cited above. For Alexander's conquest he can go to J. Karst, _Geschichte des hellenistischen Zeitalters_, Vol. I (1901), B. Niese, _Geschichte der griechischen und makedonischen Staaten_ (1899), or D.G. Hogarth, _Philip and Alexander of Macedon_ (1897); but the great work of J.G. Droysen, _Das Hellenismus_ (French translation), lies behind all these.
Finally, the fourth English volume of A. Holm's _History of Greece_ (1898) and E.R. Bevan's _House of Seleucus_ (1902) will supply most that is known of the Hellenistic Age in Asia.
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