I have a feeling this wrbsite will be useful when I next teach my upper division course on the Book of Daniel
Last spring I noted a recent book on Babylon by the owner of this site, Olof Pedersén (also via the AWOL Blog). Other posts on the history and archaeology of ancient Babylon are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
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