Babylon

The Hidden History of Mesopotamia's Greatest Empire

von Daniel Mercer

152 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Most people know exactly two things about Babylon: it's the villain in the Book of Revelation, and it's the title of a personal-finance parable that isn't actually about it. The real empire is stranger, better documented, and far more consequential than either.

Babylon reconstructs the real history behind the legend, using the actual archaeological and textual record rather than secondhand myth. That includes the Code of Hammurabi, one of the oldest surviving written legal codes, the true, disputed story of the Hanging Gardens (no trace of them has ever been found in Babylon itself, and the leading scholarly theory places them somewhere else entirely), the Babylonian conquest of Judah under Nebuchadnezzar II and the exile it caused, and the glazed-brick Ishtar Gate, whose original panels sit in a Berlin museum today while the actual gateway in Iraq stands empty.

What you'll come away understanding:

- How Babylon actually rose to power three separate times across Mesopotamian history, and why each collapse happened- The real story behind the Hanging Gardens, one of the ancient world's Seven Wonders, and why many historians now doubt it stood in Babylon at all- Hammurabi's Code, the Ishtar Gate, and the Babylonian roots of the 60-minute hour and the 360-degree circle, still in use today- The Babylonian Exile: the real events behind one of the Hebrew Bible's central historical episodes, cross-checked against Babylon's own surviving records

Written for the reader who wants the real, sourced history, not the highlight reel. Every claim in this book is drawn from the archaeological and textual record, popular myths and legends are identified clearly as such rather than blurred in with verified fact. No prior background in ancient history is assumed.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175107228
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published