A Short History of Babylon

Timeline -- List of figure captions --Introduction -- Ch.1 Babylon in time and space -- Ch.2 Babylon's loss and rediscovery -- Ch.3 Capital: Hammurabi's Babylon Ch.4. Font of knowledge: Burnaburia's Babylon -- Ch.5 Linking Heaven and Earth: Marduk's Babylon -- Ch.6 Negotiating Power: Babylon and the Assyrians -- Ch.7 Megacity: Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon Ch.8 Clipped Wings: Babylon and the Persians -- Ch.9 Slow Fade: Babylon after Alexander the Great -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.