Return to Babylon
Subtitle: travelers, archaeologists, and monuments in Mesopotamia
By: Brian Fagan.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boulder, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780870818677
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology) -- Iraq; Archaeologists -- Iraq -- Biography; Iraq -- Antiquities
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: Author's note; title: Chronology: 10,000 B.C. to A.D. 1515; title: I. Lost kingdoms and Biblical lands; title: A legacy of civilizations; title: Early travelers; title: Carsten Niebuhr at Persepolis; title: II. Consuls and cuneiform; title: Claudius James Rich; title: Diplomacy and archaeology in Baghdad; title: The Euphrates expedition; title: Cuneiform deciphered; title: III. Palaces of kings; title: Excavations at Khorsabad; title: Layard of Nineveh; title: Nimrud and Khorsabad; title: IV. Tablets and tells; title: Excavations in Babylonia; title: The royal lion hunt; title: The deluge tablets; title: Gates and palaces; title: A scramble for tablets; title: Sumer discovered; title: Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon; title: Leonard Woolley at Carchemish; title: V. Science and nationalism; title: Gertrude Bell and the new Iraq; title: Woolley at Ur; title: Nationalism and archaeology; title: Catastrophe; title: Notes; title: Guide to further reading; title: Index.