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The Babylonians: An Indrotuction

By Gwendolyn Leick

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2005
ISBN
0-203-99525-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1677063 bytes)
Pages
189\189
Topic
History
Time added
2019-02-10 13:30:27

Description

Gwendolyn Leick's approachable survey introduces the Babylonians, the people, the culture and the reality behind the popular myth of Babylon. Spanning some 1800 years in the history of the Babylonians, from the time of Hammurabi, famous for his Law-Code, to the time when Alexander's heirs ruled the Near East, Leick examines how archaeological discoveries and cuneiform tablets recovered from Babylonian cities allow us an impression of the Babylonian people and their society, their intellectual and spiritual preoccupations. Exploring the lives of kings and merchants, women and slaves, and the social, historical, geographical and cultural context in which their extraordinary civilization flourishe BOOK COVER......Page 1 TITLE......Page 4 COPYRIGHT......Page 5 CONTENTS......Page 6

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