Bethlehem: biography of a town

Introduction: The Christmas pudding

Nomads and lovers: from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age

Scent, spice, and chemicals: the Iron Age

Bethlehem and Christ: the Classical Age

Helena's church: Christian Rome

The Emperor's new church: Byzantium

Traders to crusaders: the Islamic conquest to the crusader town

Mamluks and Ottomans: thirteenth to nineteenth century

The British: the Victorian Age to the Second World War

Jordan: 1948-1967

Israel: from 1967 to Oslo

Palestine: after Oslo

The future for the settlers

The future for Bethlehem.