Life and Death in Ancient Babylon
The Ancients

Life and Death in Ancient Babylon

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 1, 202654 min

Babylon was one of the greatest cities of the ancient world. But what was life really like for the people who lived there? Behind its magnificent temples and royal palaces lay a city of crowded streets, disease, danger and everyday struggles. Tristan Hughes is joined by friend of the show and Babylonian extraordinaire Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones to uncover the realities of life in Hammurabi's Babylon. Drawing on the remarkable texts left behind by its people, they explore everything from marriage and childbirth to taverns, rubbish-filled streets and the strange demons believed to haunt the home. What...

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Babin, 3,700 years ago. The most powerful city in Mesopotamia. The seat of the famed King Hammurabi remembered for his law code. The home of the great ziggurat. The temple of Marduk, the Royal Palace and thousands of mud brick houses spread out in all the directions either side of the Euphrates River. Downtown Babylon.

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