TY  - BOOK
AU  - Liverani,Mario
TI  - Imagining Babylon: The Modern Story of an Ancient City 
T2  - Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) ,
SN  - 9781614516026
U1  - 935 .5 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Babylon (Extinct city)
KW  - Cities and towns, Ancient
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Cities and towns, Ancient-Middle East
KW  - Excavations (Archaeology)
KW  - Excavations (Archaeology)-Middle East
KW  - Middle East-Antiquities
KW  - Babylon
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Near East
KW  - HISTORY / Middle East / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - cities
KW  - historiography
N1  - Frontmatter --; Preface To The Italian Edition --; Contents --; List of Figures --; Abbreviations --; 1. Rediscovery and perplexity --; 2. Acceptance and modification --; 3. The season of theoretical models --; 4. The new models in practice --; 5. Modernity: new approaches and new settings --; 6. Post-modernity: computerization and deconstruction --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Ever since the archaeological rediscovery of the Ancient Near East, generations of scholars have attempted to reconstruct the "real Babylon,” known to us before from the evocative biblical account of the Tower of Babel. After two centuries of excavations and scholarship, Mario Liverani provides an insightful overview of modern, Western approaches, theories, and accounts of the ancient Near Eastern city
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514589
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781614514589
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781614514589/original
ER  -