Picking up where his History of Sumer and Akkad left off, King describes the city of Babylon in the light of recent excavations, untangles the chronology of its dynasties, and follows the kingdom from its West-Semitic kings and the age of Hammurabi down to its conquest by Persia.
Published in 1915, it gathers the best Assyriology of its day into a readable narrative for general readers. Download the free EPUB.