Return to Babylon

travelers, archaeologists, and monuments in Mesopotamia

by Brian M. Fagan

1979 300 pages eng

In the barren landscape between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, adventurers of the nineteenth century suspected that the remains of fabled kingdoms lay beneath the sands. As they dug into the mounds of Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq), these European and American archaeologists struck treasures beyon…