River of Long Sunset: Exploring the Babylonian Civilization

Author: Li Iron Smith
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Publish Date: 1999-07-01
Features: Throughout history, when facing the ruins of ancient fortresses or the broken bricks and fragments of desolate cities and ancient tombs, people are inevitably moved by the scenery and a sense of historical loss arises. Even grand cities and magnificent palaces have been transformed beyond recognition due to the vicissitudes of time and the erosion of ages. Moreover, many past events have been lost to the mists of time, becoming invisible and unknowable! Some of them concern a single moment or event, while others span a nation or ethnicity, and some even involve a lost world. However, this sense of historical loss was often a starting point for important research and writing in the past when science was less developed. Yesterday is the source, tomorrow is the stream. If the once-lost civilizations cannot be systematically deciphered, they will remain fragmented and unsolved mysteries for modern civilization forever. Therefore, collecting the continuously discovered fragments of once-scattered civilizations and merging them into a flowing river holds significant reference value and profound meaning for popularizing and studying the splendid ancient culture, drawing on the achievements of outstanding world civilizations to build modern civilization, warning about the harmony between modernization and nature, and researching ancient Chinese civilization.