Henry W.F. Saggs
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LOCATION: Llantrisant, United Kingdom
Emeritus Professor of Semitic Languages, University College, Cardiff, University of Wales. Author of The Greatness That Was Babylon and others.
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Babylon, one of the most famous cities of antiquity. It was the capital of southern Mesopotamia (Babylonia) from the early 2nd millennium to the early 1st millennium bce and capital of the Neo-Babylonian (Chaldean) empire in the 7th and 6th centuries bce, when it was at the height of its splendor.…
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