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BL
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624574
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dltt
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Dalley, Stephanie
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The mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon : : an elusive world wonder traced /\ Stephanie Dalley
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xviii, 279 pages, 8 pages of plates :: illustrations (some col.), maps, plans ;; 22 cm
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9780199662265
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: 0199662266
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-268) and index
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| Contents
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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
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"Identifies and locates one of the Ancient World wonders -- New description of a very early garden and the technology behind its water supply -- Identifies the early occurrence of the "Water-raising Screw" -- Links Assyrian texts and sculpture to later classical sources and explains legends surrounding the characters of Semiramis and Nebuchadnezzar -- Reassesses specific sculpture in the British Museum." --Publisher
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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
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Gardens-- Iraq-- Babylon (Extinct city)-- History
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Seven Wonders of the World
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History, Ancient
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Archaeology and history-- Middle East
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Babylon (Extinct city), History
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Assyria, History
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935.5
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DS70.5.B3D34 2013
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