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|a DS69.6.F33 2007
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|a Fagan, Brian M.
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|a Return to Babylon:
|b travelers, archaeologists, and monuments in Mesopotamia/
|c Brian M. Fagan
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|a Rev. ed.
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|a Boulder:
|b University Press of Colorado,
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|a xix, 386 p. :
|b ill., maps ;
|c 23 cm.
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|a Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-374) and index.
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|a 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.
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|a Excavations (Archaeology)
|z Iraq
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|a Archaeologists
|x Biography
|z Iraq
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