A review by marct22
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek

4.0

I am actually a little disappointed in this book. First off, the main title is wrong. Babylon itself is only a small fraction of this book, maybe at most a 1/6 of the contents of the book. It is really about Mesopotamia and the birth of civilization. About that second part, still, while mostly about it, I could do without the periodic references to today's world. That whole introduction I think could have been rewritten to talk more about the past. I guess i was hoping it wouldn't quite be such a 'pop' history book.