TY - BOOK AU - Gill,Anton TI - The rise and fall of Babylon: gateway of the gods SN - 9780857386649 U1 - 935.5 GIL PY - 2011/// PB - Quercus KW - Babylon (Extinct city) KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Anton Gill charts the history of Babylon, home of the Hanging Gardens and a wonder of the ancient world in itself. He chronicles the city's rise under Hammurabi, its fortunes in the centuries that followed, its golden age under a dynasty of Chaldean kings, and the life of its last great king, Nebuchadrezzar II ER -