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Title:Return to Babylon : Travelers, Archaeologists, & Monuments in Mesopotamia, Revised Edition
Author:Brian M Fagan
ISBN:0870818678 : 9780870818677
Illustrations:12 b/w photos, 21 illus, 4 maps
Format:Paperback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:386
Weight: .562 Kg.
Published:University Press of Colorado - April 2007
List Price: 13.5 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Iraq: ARCHAEOLOGY


Tells the story of archaeological travel and excavation in Iraq -- then Mesopotamia -- from the time of the great Arab geographers to the 2003 devastation of the Iraq National Museum. Fagan tells of Henry Rawlinson, Jules Oppert, and Edward Hincks, decipherers of cuneiform; Claudius and Mary Rich, observers of Nineveh and Babylon; and Émile Botta and Austen Henry Layard, who revealed the Assyrian civilisation to an astonished world. Here, also, are men like Hormuzd Rassam, whose illegal digging and plundering horrified local officials, and Wallis Budge, consummate smuggler of cuneiform tablets. Fagan also recounts the careers of the multi-talented administrator Gertrude Bell, a primary influence in the creation of the nation of Iraq, and of Leonard Woolley, renowned for his excavation of Sumerian civilisation at Ur. Bringing this remarkable history up to date, Fagan chronicles the development of scientific archaeology in Mesopotamia, the growing Iraqi involvement in archaeology, and the tragic events of recent years that led to the looting of the Iraq National Museum and many archaeological sites.

Part I: Lost Kingdoms and Biblical Lands; Part II: Consuls and Cuneiform; Part III: Palaces of Kings; Part IV: Tablets and Tells; Part V: Science and Nationalism; Index.