Imagining Babylon

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Imagining Babylon is written by Mario Liverani and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1614519587 (ISBN 10) and 9781614519584 (ISBN 13).

Ever since the archaeological rediscovery of the Ancient Near East, generations of scholars have attempted to reconstruct the "real Babylon,” known to us before from the evocative biblical account of the Tower of Babel. After two centuries of excavations and scholarship, Mario Liverani provides an insightful overview of modern, Western approaches, theories, and accounts of the ancient Near Eastern city.