By Stephanie Dalley
In this extraordinary quantity Stephanie Dalley, a global professional on old Babylonian language, gathers for the 1st time all of the fabric in this enigmatic international ask yourself. Tracing the heritage of the backyard, Dalley describes how the decipherment of an unique textual content and its hyperlink to sculpture within the British Museum has enabled her to pin down the place the backyard was once situated and to explain intimately what it may well have seemed like. via this dramatic and engaging reconstruction of the backyard, Dalley
is additionally in a position to persist with its effect on later backyard design.
Like a palimpsest, Dalley unscrambles the numerous legends that experience equipped up round the backyard, together with the elements performed via Semiramis and Nebuchadnezzar, and following the evolution of its layout, she indicates why this backyard merits its position along the Pyramids and the Colossus of Rhodes as some of the most remarkable technical achievements of the traditional world.
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