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The mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon : an elusive world wonder traced /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dalley, Stephanie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Gardens > Iraq > Babylon (Extinct city) > History.
Babylon (Extinct city) > History.
Seven Wonders of the World.
Assyria > History.
History, Ancient.
Archaeology and history > Middle East.
Table of Contents:
  • Drawing a blank in Babylon
  • Classical writers and their testimony
  • Three pictures, and Archimedes
  • Sennacherib's great invention
  • Engineering for water management
  • Confusion of names
  • The unrivalled palace, the queen, and the garden
  • Symbolism and imitators
  • Defeat and revival : Nineveh after 612 BC
  • Appendix. The section of prism inscription describing the palace and garden.