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Discovering Babylon /

This volume presents Babylon as it has been passed down through Western culture through the Bible, classical texts, in Medieval travel accounts and through depictions of the Tower motif in art. It then details the discovery of the material culture remains of Babylon from the middle of the 19th centu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Thelle, Rannfrid I., 1966- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2019.
Series:	Studies in the history of the ancient Near East.
Subjects:	Babylon (Extinct city) > History. Babylon (Extinct city) > In the Bible. Iraq > Antiquities. Excavations (Archaeology) > Iraq > Babylon (Extinct city)

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