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Babylon

By: Thames & Hudson

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Thames & Hudson)

Last Stocked on 2/22/2006

Product Info

Title
Babylon
Publisher
Category
Author
Joan Oates
Publish Year
1979
Pages
216
Dimensions
6.5x10x.8"
NKG Part #
2147354734
Type
Hardcover

Description

In a highly acclaimed account, now brought up to date for the revised edition, Dr. Oates describes the rise of Babylon from Sargon of Agade to Hammurapi, the great law-giver under whom in the 18th century BC the city first attained pre-eminence. She charts its progress under his successors, its greatest period of empire during the reigns of Nebuchadrezzar and Nabonidus in the 6th century BC, and its decay and final abandonment as Persians and Greeks turned Mesopotamia into a battleground.