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The 2000-year story of Babylon sees it moving from a city-state to the centre of a great empire of the ancient world. It remained a centre of kingship under the empires of Assyria, Nebuchadnezzar, Darius, Alexander the Great, the Seleucids and the Parthians. Its city walls were declared to be a Wonder of the World while its ziggurat won fame as the Tower of Babel. Visitors to Berlin can admire its Ishtar Gate, and the supposed location of its elusive Hanging Garden is explained. Worship of its patron god Marduk spread widely while its well-trained scholars communicated legal, administrative and literary works throughout the ancient world, some of which provide a backdrop to Old Testament and Hittite texts. Its science also laid the foundations for Greek and Arab astronomy through a millennium of continuous astronomical observations. This accessible and up-to-date account is by one of the world's leading authorities.
Babylon (Extinct city) --- History. --- Babylon (Ancient city) --- Iraq --- Antiquities
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Well versed in oriental languages and antiquities, Claudius James Rich (1786/7-1821), the East India Company's resident at Baghdad, visited and described many historic locations in present-day Iraq and Iran. Following his early death from cholera in Shiraz, Rich's widow prepared his writings for publication. His two-volume Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan, and on the Site of Ancient Nineveh (1836) is also reissued in this series. The present work, which appeared in 1839, contains Rich's 1811 journal of his first visit to the site of the ancient city of Babylon, followed by the archaeological memoir he published in 1815. 'Remarks on the Topography of Ancient Babylon', an 1815 paper by the geographer James Rennell (1742-1830), who queried Rich's conclusions, is included, and Rich's 1818 memoir of his second visit then responds to Rennell. A narrative of Rich's Persian travels in 1821, featuring 'hitherto unpublished cuneiform inscriptions copied at Persepolis', completes the work.
Middle East --- Babylon (Extinct city) --- Babylon (Ancient city) --- Iraq --- Description and travel. --- Antiquities
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Akkadian language --- -Accadian language --- Assyrian language --- Assyro-Babylonian language --- Babylonian language --- Semitic languages --- Texts --- Assyria --- -Babylon (Extinct city) --- -Babylon (Ancient city) --- Iraq --- History --- -Sources --- Antiquities --- -Texts --- -History --- Babylon (Extinct city) --- Babylon (Ancient city) --- Assur (Kingdom) --- Asshur (Kingdom) --- Sources.
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Geschiedenis van de Oudheid --- Histoire de l'Antiquité --- Academic collection --- Babylon (Extinct city) --- Babylone (Ville ancienne) --- History. --- Histoire --- Babylon (Ancient city) --- Iraq --- Antiquities
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Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894) was one of the leading British archaeologists of the 19th century. His excavations provided important evidence about ancient Mesopotamia, particularly about the Assyrian civilisation, & his books - part travel writing, part specialised archaeological studies - are beautifully evocative. First published in 1853, this two-volume study follows the earlier 'Nineveh and its Remains' (1849). It describes Layard's second expedition to the Near East, in 1845, which led to the identification of Kouyunjik as the great Assyrian capital Nineveh. In this illustrated book, Layard focuses on the description & interpretation of ruins, as he tells of the discovery of the lost palace of the Assyrian king Sennacherib (eighth century BCE) in northern Iraq. Volume 1 is an account of the excavations at Kouyunjik, & also describes a journey along the Khabur river in Syria.
Excavations (Archaeology) --- British Museum. --- Nineveh (Extinct city) --- Babylon (Extinct city) --- Iraq --- Antiquities. --- Babylon (Ancient city) --- Nineveh (Ancient city) --- Ninos (Extinct city) --- Ninus (Extinct city) --- Antiquities
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Ancient history --- Assyria, Babylonia, Mesopotamia --- Babylon --- 922.2 --- Babylonië --- geschiedenis --- mythen --- #GGSB: Geschiedenis (oudheid) --- #GGSB: Archeologie --- C3 --- geschiedenis - Sumerië, Babylonië, Assyrië --- Kunst en cultuur --- Babylon (Extinct city) --- Babylon (Ancient city) --- Iraq --- Antiquities --- Mythology --- History --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Archeologie --- Geschiedenis (oudheid)
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Archaeologists --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Historians --- Koldewey, Robert, --- كولديڤاي، روبرت، --- Babylon (Extinct city) --- Babylon (Ancient city) --- Iraq --- Antiquities --- Koldewey, Robert
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Chronology, Assyro-Babylonian --- Proper names --- Assyro-Babylonian chronology --- Chronology, Sumerian --- Chronology, Assyro-Babylonian. --- -Babylon (Extinct city) --- Names --- -Assyro-Babylonian chronology --- Nomenclature --- Terminology --- Epithets --- Language and languages --- Etymology --- Babylon (Extinct city) --- -Babylon (Ancient city) --- Iraq --- History --- Antiquities --- -Nomenclature --- -History
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Prices --- History. --- Babylon (Extinct city) --- Commerce --- Commercial products --- Commodity prices --- Justum pretium --- Price theory --- Consumption (Economics) --- Cost --- Costs, Industrial --- Money --- Cost and standard of living --- Supply and demand --- Value --- Wages --- Willingness to pay --- History --- Babylon (Ancient city) --- Iraq --- Antiquities
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902 <354 BABYLON> --- 902 <354 BABYLON> Archeologie--Babylon --- Archeologie--Babylon --- Nebuchadnezzar II, King of Babylonia --- Babylon (Extinct city) --- Babylonia --- -Babylon (Ancient city) --- Iraq --- Kings and rulers --- -Biography --- Antiquities --- Nebuchadnezzar --- -Vavilonii︠a︡ --- Bavel --- Bābil --- Babylonien --- Buk̲h̲t-Naṣar --- Nabû-kudurri-uṣur --- Nabucco --- Nabucodonosor --- Nabūkhadhnaṣṣar al-Thānī, --- Nebucadnezar --- Nebuchadrezzar --- Nevukhadnetsar --- Nevukhadretsar --- Babylon (Ancient city) --- Vavilonii︠a︡ --- Sumer --- History. --- History --- Nebuchadnezzar - II, - King of Babylonia, - -562 BC --- Babylonia - History --- Babylonia - Kings and rulers - Biography
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