Page 14 - Four Thousand Years Ago by Geoffrey Bibby

Drawings
Vase from eastern Crete 238
Flying fish from a Minoan fresco 244
Portrait of Akhenaten with his daughter 247
Tutankhamon 257
Bronze vessel of the Shang Dynasty 284
Horsemen on a Swedish rock carving 291
Prisoners of war before the Canaanite king 314
Achaean infantry 323
Plan of excavated portion of Troy VI 329
Ships of the people of the sea 333
Mycenaean vase from Rhodes 337
The army of Carchemish 355
Early picture of a riding camel 361
Assyrian seal showing a pleasing incident from an ostrich hunt 363
Mounted warrior from Vai Camonica 377
Solar disc, ax, and dagger from Vai Camonica 379
Four-wheeled oxcart from Vai Camonica 381
Dragon on a ritual wine vessel from North China 388

MAPS

DRAWN BY RALPH MARCANO

Europe and the Middle East at the beginning of the Second
Millennium b.c. 43
“Sales chart” of the ax factory of Great Langdale 92
The Near East in the time of Hammurabi 108
The amber route across Europe 205
The Near East in the middle years of the Second Millennium b.c. 251
Greece and the Aegean at the time of the Trojan War 318