num_pages: 386
description: Tells the story of archaeological travel and excavation in Iraq - then Mesopotamia - from the time of the great Arab geographers to the 2003 devastation of the Iraq National Museum. This title chronicles the development of scientific archaeology in Mesopotamia, and the growing Iraqi involvement in archaeology.
language: English
title: Return to Babylon: Travelers, Archaeologists, and Monuments in Mesopotamia
publisher: University Press of Colorado