Return to Babylon: travelers, archaeologists, and monuments in Mesopotamia/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boulder:
University Press of Colorado,
c2007
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| Edition: | Rev. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.