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Return to Babylon : travelers, archaeologists, and monuments in Mesopotamia
- Title
- Return to Babylon : travelers, archaeologists, and monuments in Mesopotamia / Brian M. Fagan.
- Author
- Fagan, Brian M.
- Publication
- Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2007.
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- Description
- xix, 386 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-374) and index.
- Contents
- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Author's note -- Chronology: 10,000 B.C. to A.D. 1515 -- I. Lost kingdoms and Biblical lands -- A legacy of civilizations -- Early travelers -- Carsten Niebuhr at Persepolis -- II. Consuls and cuneiform -- Claudius James Rich -- Diplomacy and archaeology in Baghdad -- The Euphrates expedition -- Cuneiform deciphered -- III. Palaces of kings -- Excavations at Khorsabad -- Layard of Nineveh -- Nimrud and Khorsabad -- IV. Tablets and tells -- Excavations in Babylonia -- The royal lion hunt -- The deluge tablets -- Gates and palaces -- A scramble for tablets -- Sumer discovered -- Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon -- Leonard Woolley at Carchemish -- V. Science and nationalism -- Gertrude Bell and the new Iraq -- Woolley at Ur -- Nationalism and archaeology -- Catastrophe -- Notes -- Guide to further reading -- Index.
- Call Number
- *OCM 07-1053
- ISBN
- 9780870818677 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0870818678 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006038464
- OCLC
- 76416657
- Author
- Fagan, Brian M.
- Title
- Return to Babylon : travelers, archaeologists, and monuments in Mesopotamia / Brian M. Fagan.
- Imprint
- Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2007.
- Edition
- Rev. ed., Updated ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-374) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- *OCM 07-1053