Fagan, Brian M.. <br/><br/>
Return to Babylon :  travelers, archaeologists, and monuments in Mesopotamia/ 
Brian M. Fagan ; Brian M. Fagan. 
 - Revised Edition 
 - XIX, 386 pages :  illustrated ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Author's note -- Chronology: 10,000 B.C. to A.D. 1515 -- I. Lost kingdoms and Biblical lands -- A legacy of civilizations -- Early travelers -- Carsten Niebuhr at Persepolis -- II. Consuls and cuneiform -- Claudius James Rich -- Diplomacy and archaeology in Baghdad -- The Euphrates expedition -- Cuneiform deciphered -- III. Palaces of kings -- Excavations at Khorsabad -- Layard of Nineveh -- Nimrud and Khorsabad -- IV. Tablets and tells -- Excavations in Babylonia -- The royal lion hunt -- The deluge tablets -- Gates and palaces -- A scramble for tablets -- Sumer discovered -- Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon -- Leonard Woolley at Carchemish -- V. Science and nationalism -- Gertrude Bell and the new Iraq -- Woolley at Ur -- Nationalism and archaeology -- Catastrophe -- Notes -- Guide to further reading -- Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780870818677 0870818678 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Excavations (Archaeology)--Iraq.<br/>Archaeologists--Iraq--Biography.<br/>Iraq--Antiquities.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS69.6  / .F34 2007