BABYLON - the author describes the rise of Babylon from Sargon to Agade to Hammurapi, the great law giver under whom in the 18th century BC the city first attained pre-eminence. She charts its progress under his successors, its greatest period of empire during the reigns of Nebuchadrezzar and Nabonidus in the 6th century BC, and its decay and final abandonment as Persians and Greeks turned Mesopotamia into a battleground.

Condition: Good - Author: Joan Oates - Publisher: Thames and Hudson - Pages: 216 - Paperback