A History of Babylonia
by L. W. King
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About this eBook
- Author
- King, L. W. (Leonard William), 1869-1919
- Title
- A History of Babylon, from the Foundation of the Monarchy to the Persian Conquest
- Credits
- Produced by Marc D'Hooghe at Free Literature (Images generously made available by the Internet Archive.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia
- Subject
- Babylonia -- History
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 56667
- Release Date
- March 2, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A HISTORY — OF — BABYLONIA — FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE MONARCHY TO THE PERSIAN CONQUEST — BY
- 2.LEONARD W. KING, LITT.D., F.S.A. — Assistant Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum Professor of Assyrian and Babylonian Archæology in the University of London — WITH MAP, PLANS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS — PREFACE — CONTENTS — A HISTORY OF BABYLON — INTRODUCTORY: BABYLON'S PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF ANTIQUITY — THE CITY OF BABYLON AND ITS REMAINS: A DISCUSSION OF THE RECENT EXCAVATIONS — THE DYNASTIES OF BABYLON: THE CHRONOLOGICAL SCHEME IN THE LIGHT OF RECENT DISCOVERIES — THE WESTERN SEMITES AND THE FIRST DYNASTY OF BABYLON — THE AGE OF HAMMURABI AND ITS INFLUENCE ON LATER PERIODS — THE CLOSE OF THE FIRST DYNASTY OF BABYLON AND THE KINGS FROM THE COUNTRY OF THE SEA — THE KASSITE DYNASTY AND ITS RELATIONS WITH EGYPT AND THE HITTITE EMPIRE — THE LATER DYNASTIES AND THE ASSYRIAN DOMINATION — THE NEO-BABYLONIAN EMPIRE AND THE PERSIAN CONQUEST — GREECE, PALESTINE AND BABYLON: AN ESTIMATE OF CULTURAL INFLUENCE — APPENDICES — THE END
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