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Mario Liverani
Imagining Babylon [PDF ebook]
The Modern Story of an Ancient City

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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.

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Format PDF ● Pages 506 ● ISBN 9781614514589 ● Publisher De Gruyter ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 6634617 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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