The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon
An Elusive World Wonder Traced
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 23 May 2013
- ISBN 9780199662265
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 223x144x22 mm
- Weight 490 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 90 black and white in-text illustrations and 8 colour plates 0
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Short description:
Where was the Hanging Garden of Babylon and what did it look like ? Why did the ancient Greeks and Romans consider it to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World? Renowned Babylonian expert Stephanie Dalley delves into the legends filled with myth and mystery to piece together the enigmatic history of this elusive world wonder.
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The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon is an exciting story of detection involving legends, expert decipherment of ancient texts, and a vivid description of a little-known civilization. Recognised in ancient times as one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the legendary Hanging Garden of Babylon and its location still remains a mystery steeped in shadow and puzzling myths.
In this remarkable volume Stephanie Dalley, a world expert on ancient Babylonian language, gathers for the first time all the material on this enigmatic World Wonder. Tracing the history of the Garden, Dalley describes how the decipherment of an original text and its link to sculpture in the British Museum has enabled her to pin down where the Garden was positioned and to describe in detail what it may have looked like. Through this dramatic and fascinating reconstruction of the Garden, Dalley
is also able to follow its influence on later garden design.
Like a palimpsest, Dalley unscrambles the many legends that have built up around the Garden, including the parts played by Semiramis and Nebuchadnezzar, and following the evolution of its design, she shows why this Garden deserves its place alongside the Pyramids and the Colossus of Rhodes as one of the most astonishing technical achievements of the ancient world.
Wonderfully readable and meticulously researchedas gripping as any thriller, beautifully written and illustrated with an astonishing conclusion
Table of Contents:
Dedication
Frontispiece
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations, plates and maps
Time-line
General Map
Introduction
Drawing a Blank in Babylon
Classical writers and their testimony
Three pictures and Archimedes
Sennacherib's Great Invention
Engineers and Waterworks
Confusion of Names
The Palace, the Queen and the Garden
Symbolism and Imitations
Defeat and Revival at Nineveh and Nimrud
Conclusion
Appendix
The Prism Inscription in translation
Bibliography
Index
