An ancient city brought vividly to life using extraordinary ancient sources, including acerbic letters between rival kings and bawdy drinking songs. Welsh academic Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones traces the history of the first metropolis from its foundation to world domination… and back to ruin. Babylon often appears more myth than history. But it was a real place teeming with life, a bustling mega-city which set the agenda for what civilisation meant. Llewellyn-Jones holds the chair in ancient history at Cardiff University and is author of Persians and The Cleopatras.
