During the third millennium BC the huge geographical area stretching between the Mediterranean in the west and the Indus Valley in the east witnessed the rise of a commercial network of unmatched proportions and intensity within which the Persian Gulf for long periods functioned as a central node. In this book Laursen and Steinkeller examine the nature of cultural and commercial s between Babylonia the Gulf region and Indus Civilization. Focusing on the third and early second millennia BC and us