Imagining Babylon: the modern story of an ancient city

"Ever since the archaeological rediscovery of the ancient Near East, generations of scholars have attempted to reconstruct the 'real Babylon,' known to us before from the evocative biblical account of the Tower of Babel. After two centuries of excavations and scholarship, Mario Livera...

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Published in:Studies in ancient Near Eastern records
Main Author: Liverani, Mario 1939- (Author)
Contributors: Campbell, Ailsa M. (Translator)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Boston Berlin De Gruyter [2016]
In: Studies in ancient Near Eastern records (volume 11)
Series/Journal:Studies in ancient Near Eastern records volume 11
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Babylon / Excavation
Further subjects:B Excavations (archaeology) (Middle East)
B Cities and towns, Ancient (Middle East)
B Middle East Antiquities
B Babylon (Extinct city) Historiography
B Babylon (Extinct city)
B Babylon (Extinct city) History

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