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The city of Babylon : a history, c. 2000 BC-AD 116
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ISBN: 1316479722 1009038710 1009038915 110713627X 1316501779 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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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.


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Narrative of a Journey to the site of Babylon in 1811 : and other memoirs
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ISBN: 1139878530 1108077102 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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.


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Testi dalla Babilonia Ellenistica.
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ISBN: 8881470209 Year: 1997 Publisher: Roma : Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali,

Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic Babylon.
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ISBN: 9042914491 Year: 2004 Volume: 136 Publisher: Leuven Peeters

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Discoveries in the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon : with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the desert : being the result of a second expedition undertaken for the trustees of the British Museum.
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ISBN: 0511711557 1108016774 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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.


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Babylon : de echte stad en de mythe
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ISBN: 9789058267191 9058267199 Year: 2010 Publisher: Leuven Davidsfonds


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Auf dem Weg nach Babylon : Robert Koldewey - ein Archäologenleben
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ISBN: 9783805339186 9783886096282 Year: 2008 Publisher: Mainz Verlag Philipp von Zabern


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The year-names of the first dynasty of Babylon. 1 : Chronological matters : the year-name system and the date-lists
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ISBN: 0920603564 0920603548 Year: 1999 Publisher: Hamilton McMaster university press


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Tallies and trends : the late Babylonian commodity price lists.
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ISBN: 9781934309230 1934309230 Year: 2009 Publisher: Bethesda CDL

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