This book evaluates the evidence for indirect connections between the Aegean and the Indus extending back to the third and fourth millennia BCE, particularly co

The earliest contacts between the Aegean and the Indus were once thought to begin in the sixth century BCE, and yet there is now growing evidence of much earlie

Recent archaeological discoveries from China and central Asia have changed our understanding of how human civilization developed in the period of some 4 million

Provides the first global analysis of the relationship between trade and civilisation from the beginning of civilisation until the modern era.

Europe's place in history is re-assessed in this first comprehensive history of the ancient world, centering on the Indian Ocean and its role in pre-modern glob