The city of Babylon : a history, c. 2000 BC-AD 116 /
The 2000-year story of Babylon sees it moving from a city-state to the centre of a great empire of the ancient world. It remained a centre of kingship under the empires of Assyria, Nebuchadnezzar, Darius, Alexander the Great, the Seleucids and the Parthians. Its city walls were declared to be a Wond...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Land and Peoples: an Introduction
- Discoveries and Excavations
- First Kings, to the Great Rebellion c.1894-1732
- Law, Education, Literature: the path to supremacy
- From the Great Rebellion to the end of the First Dynasty c.1732-1592
- The next 6 centuries: Kassite, Sealander, and Elamite kings: c.1593-979
- In the Shadow of Assyria 978-625
- Independence under soldier-kings, from Nabopolassar to Nebuchadnezzar II 625-562
- Nabonidus, Cyrus II The Great, and Cambyses 556-522
- Part 1 From Darius I to Darius III 521-331; part 2 Alexander III of Macedon,
- The Great, and Civil War 331-c.129; Part 3 Seleucus I to the First Parthian Conquest
- First Parthian Conquest 141 BC to the visit of Trajan in AD 116.
