Babylon - Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Babylon often appears more myth than history. Purportedly the site of the Hanging Gardens and the Tower of Babel, its infamous presence in the Bible has made it a byword for sinful decadence. But Babylon was a real place teeming with life, a bustling mega-city on the Euphrates where schoolteachers, artisans, priests, slaves, prostitutes and soldiers rubbed shoulders in maze-like streets and busy marketplaces.The city was home to some extraordinary rulers, from Hammurabi the great lawgiver to Nebuchadnezzar... Zobrazit více