Babylon the biography of a metropolis
"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,...
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New York, NY :
Pegasus Books, Ltd.
2026.
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books cloth edition. |
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