Babilonia : La biografía de una metrópolis

Babylon, the city of the Tower of Babel and the legendary Hanging Gardens, holds a unique place in our collective imagination. But what was the real city like behind the myth? For more than two thousand years, this metropolis on the banks of the Euphrates was one of the great political, intellectual, and religious centers of the ancient world, an extraordinary city that dominated Mesopotamia and survived invasions, pillaging, and destruction to be reborn time and again. Babylon reconstructs the extraordinary history of the city over more than two millennia. From Hammurabi, the great lawgiver, to Nebuchadnezzar II, the conqueror under whose reign Babylon reached its dazzling splendor, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones traces centuries of wars, invasions, destruction, and resurgence: the fall to the Hittites, the clash with Assyrian power, the conquest of Jerusalem, and the birth of an empire that stretched to the Mediterranean. Through a vast array of primary sources, Llewellyn-Jones takes us into the Babylon of the Ishtar Gate, the Processional Way and the great ziggurat Etemenanki, and combines the history of kings and empires with the lives of those who inhabited the "mother of all cities".