BABYLON/ CITY OF WONDERS

A strikingly-illustrated short introduction to Babylon, a powerful and sophisticated ancient city and the home of the fabled Hanging Gardens of Nebuchadnezzar, one of the 7 Wonders of the World. Over the centuries Babylon was lost to view, and survived only in a r ich and bizarre set of half-fantastical stories and traditions, until painstaking archaeological work uncovered the real city once m ore