by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
- Dedication to Hansje and Willem
- Prehistoric Man
- The World Grows Cold
- The Earliest School of the Human Race
- The Key of Stone
- The Land of the Living and the Land of the Dead
- The Making of a State
- The Rise and Fall of Egypt
- Mesopotamia, the Country Between the Rivers
- The Sumerian Nail Writers
- Assyria and Babylonia - the Great Semitic Melting-Pot
- This Is the Story of Moses
- Jerusalem - the City of the Law
- Damascus - the City of Trade
- The Phoenicians Who Sailed Beyond the Horizon
- The Alphabet Follows the Trade
- The End of the Ancient World
- A Few Dates Connected with the People of the Ancient World