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The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced First Edition
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In this remarkable volume Stephanie Dalley, a world expert on ancient Babylonian language, exposes new evidence and clarifies all the known material about this enigmatic World Wonder. Placing the Garden within a tradition of royal patronage, Dalley describes how the decipherment of an original text and its link to sculpture in the British Museum has enabled her to pin down where and by which king the Garden was laid out, and to describe in detail what it looked like. Through this dramatic and fascinating reconstruction of the Garden, Dalley also follows its influence on later garden design.
Unscrambling layer by layer the many stories that have built up around the Garden, including the parts played by Semiramis and Nebuchadnezzar, Dalley shows why this Garden deserves its place alongside the Pyramids and the Colossus of Rhodes as one of the most astonishing technical achievements of the ancient world.
- ISBN-100198728840
- ISBN-13978-0198728849
- EditionFirst Edition
- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication dateMay 5, 2015
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions0.8 x 5.3 x 8.4 inches
- Print length304 pages
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- Publisher : Oxford University Press; First Edition (May 5, 2015)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 304 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0198728840
- ISBN-13 : 978-0198728849
- Item Weight : 13.5 ounces
- Dimensions : 0.8 x 5.3 x 8.4 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #885,449 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #258 in Ancient Mesopotamia History
- #1,412 in Archaeology (Books)
- #1,465 in History of Civilization & Culture
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Ian Anderson
Besides solving the puzzle the book is excellent reading for everybody interested in archaeology of Mesopotamia. And it is a delight just to read it!
gerhard chroust
Be it as it may, I am sure the controversey raised by this book may continue for a long time to come.
Nejdet Al-Salihi (a Mesapotamian and an irrigation engineer).