История Ближнего Востока от ранних государств до персидского завоевания

Vavilon... Obychno ėto nazvanie assot͡siiruetsi͡a s Vavilonskoĭ bashneĭ, Vavilonskim stolpotvoreniem, smesheniem i͡azykov, Visi͡achimi sadami Semiramidy, t͡sarem Navukhodonosorom, Vavilonskim plenom, pirom Valtasara i znamenitymi slovami "mene, mene, tekel, uparsin", simvolizirui͡ushchimi neotvratimostʹ sudʹby i brennostʹ zemnogo velichii͡a. Obo vsem ėtom my slyshali v shkole, chitali i chitaem v knigakh, zhurnalakh i gazetakh, chasto govorim sami. A pochemu? Vavilon... Da vedʹ ėto zhe ėkzotika, dremuchai͡a drevnostʹ, pereputannai͡a so skazkoĭ! I vse-taki net cheloveka, kotoryĭ nichego ne znal by o Vavilone i sam ne pominal by Vavilonskoe stolpotvorenie, ponimai͡a pod ėtim vyrazheniem ne stolʹko stroitelʹstvo Vavilonskoĭ bashni, skolʹko velichaĭshiĭ bespori͡adok. Vavilon bukvalʹno voshel nam v plotʹ i krovʹ. A kakim on byl na samom dele? Da i bylo li preslovutoe Vavilonskoe stolpotvorenie ili vse ėto vymysel? Vot ob ėtom i rasskazyvaetsi͡a v predlagaemoĭ vnimanii͡u chitateleĭ knige. V neĭ rechʹ poĭdet ne o Vavilone voobshche, a o Vavilone ėpokhi stolpotvorenii͡a, kogda zhil Navukhodonosor i piroval Valtasar, o sobytii͡akh dvadt͡satipi͡ativekovoĭ davnosti. Khudozhnik: Tibilova Irina

Babylon... Usually this name is associated with the Tower of Babel, the Babel of Babel, the confusion of languages, the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis, King Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian captivity, Belshazzar's feast and the famous words "mene, mene, tekel, upharsin", symbolizing the inevitability of fate and the frailty of earthly greatness. We have heard about all this at school, read and read in books, magazines and newspapers, and often speak for ourselves. And why? Babylon... Why, it's exotic, ancient, confused with a fairy tale! Nevertheless, there is no one who does not know anything about Babylon and does not himself remember the Babel of Babel, meaning by this expression not so much the construction of the Tower of Babel as the greatest disorder. Babylon has literally become our flesh and blood. And what was he really like? And was there the notorious Pandemonium, or was it all fiction? That's what this book is about. It will not talk about Babylon in general, but about Babylon of the era of pandemonium, when Nebuchadnezzar lived and Belshazzar feasted, about the events of twenty-five centuries ago. Artist: Irina Tibilova