TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fagan,Brian M..
TI  - Return to Babylon: travelers, archaeologists, and monuments in Mesopotamia
SN  - 9780870818677
AV  - DS69.6 .F34 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Boulder, Colo.
PB  - University Press of Colorado
KW  - Excavations (Archaeology)--Iraq
KW  - Archaeologists--Iraq--Biography
KW  - Iraq--Antiquities
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip075/2006038464.html
ER  -