- Introduction: Part 1 — James Cuno and Thomas G. Weiss
- 1. Who Are We? Identity and Cultural Heritage — Kwame Anthony Appiah
- 2. Why Do We Value Cultural Heritage? — Neil MacGregor
- 3. Cultural Heritage under Attack: Learning from History — Hermann Parzinger
- 4. The Cultural Heritage of Late Antiquity — Glen W. Bowersock
- 5. The Written Heritage of the Muslim World — Sabine Schmidtke
- 6. Valuing the Legacy of Our Cultural Heritage — Ismail Serageldin