@article{435267, note = {First published: London : Atlantic Books, 2010.}, author = {Kriwaczek, Paul.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/435267}, title = {Babylon : Mesopotamia and the birth of civilization /}, publisher = {Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press,}, abstract = {Historian Kriwaczek (Yiddish Civilization) brings to life the world of ancient Mesopotamia and the city of Babylon, tracing their rise from a loose federation to a monarchy to the rise of ancient Sumerian civilization, with its tales of the Great Flood and the epics of semidivine heroes such as Gilgamesh.}, recid = {435267}, pages = {viii, 310 p., [16] p. of plates :}, address = {New York :}, year = {2012}, }