This book covers the history of seven great monarchies. The series goes in the following order:
-Chaldaea
-Assyria
-Media
-Babylon
-Persia
-Parthia
-Sassanian Empire.
Lewis Spence, Arthur Gilman, George Rawlinson, E. A. Wallis Budge, Gaston Maspero, Agnes Sophia Griffith Johns, Charles F. Horne, James Henry Breasted, Donald Mackenzie, Flinders Petrie, Amelia B. Edwards, Frederic Charles Cook & James Teakle Dennis