The mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon an elusive world wonder traced

The mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon

an elusive world wonder traced
Stephanie Dalley
Book - 2013

"Identifies and locates one of the Ancient World wonders -- New description of a very early garden and the technology behind its water supply -- Identifies the early occurrence of the "Water-raising Screw" -- Links Assyrian texts and sculpture to later classical sources and explains legends surrounding the characters of Semiramis and Nebuchadnezzar -- Reassesses specific sculpture in the British Museum." --Publisher.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dalley, Stephanie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Gardens > Iraq > Babylon (Extinct city) > History.
Seven Wonders of the World.
History, Ancient.
Archaeology and history > Middle East.
Babylon (Extinct city) > History.
Assyria > History.

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505 0 |a Drawing a blank in Babylon -- Classical writers and their testimony -- Three pictures, and Archimedes -- Sennacherib's great invention -- Engineering for water management -- Confusion of names -- The unrivalled palace, the queen, and the garden -- Symbolism and imitators -- Defeat and revival : Nineveh after 612 BC -- Appendix. The section of prism inscription describing the palace and garden. 
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