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

Main entry:

Dalley, Stephanie, author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Description:

xviii, 279 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-268) and index.
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.

Summary:

An exciting story of archaeological detection as well as a vividly written description of a little-known civilization. Dalley, a world expert on ancient Babylonian language, describes how deciphering an ancient Assyrian text-- and comparing it to sculpture in the British Museum-- provided the clues that enabled her to pin down where the Garden was positioned and to describe in detail what it may have looked like.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780199662265
0199662266
9780198728849 (pbk.)
0198728840 (pbk.)

Subject:

Gardens Iraq Babylon (Extinct city) History.
Gardens Iraq Nineveh (Extinct city) History.
Seven Wonders of the World.
History, Ancient.
Archaeology and history Middle East.
Sept merveilles du monde.
Histoire ancienne.
Archaeology and history
Gardens
Gardens Iraq Babylon History.
History.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Babylon (Extinct city) History.
Nineveh (Extinct city) History.
Assyria History.
Jardins supendus de Babylone (Irak)
Babylone (Ville ancienne) Histoire.
Ninive (Ville ancienne) Histoire.
Iraq Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Iraq Babylon (Extinct city)
Iraq Nineveh (Extinct city)
Middle East
Middle East Assyria
Hängende Gärten

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History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289965
Call No.: BIB 232687
Status: Available

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