
Babylon Revisited
Review of Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, by Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. pp. xii, 297)
… and culturally; he was attentive to detail, hard-working, and produced voluminous correspondence, as well as his … established by the Amorites and Hammurabi, until their kingdom collapsed during the upheavals of the twelfth … sites in Iraq were well guarded, and the penalty for trafficking illegal antiquities was harsh, often death. All of this …