The volume begins with an account of the Stone Age followed by the Bronze Age and its brilliant civilizations: Minoan Crete, the newly-uncovered civilization of there in all its splendour and the age of Golden Mycenae the peak of Mycenaean civilization. A large number of scholars specialists and historian have shared in the preparation of this volume. In most cases of description of archeological sites the men who conducted the excavations are themselves the authors of the chapters relating to them.