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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 show more intellectual and spiritual preoccupations.Exploring the lives of kings and merchants, women and sl show lessTags
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Gwendolyn Leick is a lecturer in anthropology at Richmond, the American International University in London.
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- The Babylonians : an introduction
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, Anthropology, General Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
- DDC/MDS
- 935 — History & geography History of ancient world (to ca. 499) Mesopotamia to 637 and Iranian Plateau to 637
- LCC
- DS70.7 .L45 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia Iraq (Assyria, Babylonia, Mesopotamia)
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- English
- Media
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