The mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon : an elusive world wonder traced /

The mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon : an elusive world wonder traced /

"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 l...

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Main Author: Dalley, Stephanie (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Edition: 1st ed.

Subjects:

Archaeology and history > Middle East.
Gardens > Iraq > Babylon (Extinct city) > History.
History, Ancient.
Seven Wonders of the World.
Assyria > History.
Babylon (Extinct city) > History.

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Call Number: DS70.5 .B3 D34 2013

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.