Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-374) and index.

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.

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Dewey Class: 935 -- History of ancient world Mesopotamia & Iranian Plateau
LCC Number: DS69.6

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Language: eng
Physical Description: xix, 386 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Edition Info: (pbk. : alk. paper)

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