Secrets of the dead. The lost gardens of Babylon [DVD videorecording].

Title :

Secrets of the dead. The lost gardens of Babylon

Format:

DVD

Summary:

Widescreen. Follows Dr. Stephanie Dalley as she hunts for the gardens using ancient texts and spy satellite images to uncover evidence to support her theory that the gardens were built 100 years before commonly believed. Her search takes her to one of the most dangerous places on earth in a modern-day adventure story searching to find a site thousands of years old.

Language:

English

Language Note:

English subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Audience:

Rating: TVPG.

ISBN - ISSN:

9781627890144

UPC/EAN:

841887021142

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

Title from web page.

Subject:

Gardens -- Iraq -- Babylon (Extinct city)

Babylon (Extinct city)

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The search for the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World despite a lack of physical evidence that they existed. Dr. Stephanie Dalley (Oxford University) posits that the legendary gardens were not located, as commonly believed, in the ancient city of Babylon, but hundreds of miles to its north, in what's now central Iraq. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

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School Library Journal Review

Gr 8 Up-Of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon are the only one for which no archaeological evidence has yet been found. They have long been thought to have been built by King Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon, an area south of modern-day Baghdad. Archaeologist Dr. Stephanie Dalley, one of a handful of people in the world who can read ancient cuneiform writing, discovered clues that suggested that an Assyrian king, Sennacherib, built the terrace gardens instead. Dalley journeys to Iraq to visit the ruins of an ancient canal system she believes fed the water to the site she identifies as the gardens' possible location, some 60 miles from the source of the canal, but that area is far too dangerous for her to visit. She sends a film crew to record brief footage of the ruins of Sennacherib's palace and the surrounding land. While not definitive, the evidence to support this exciting new theory is hard to dispute. This particular episode is appropriate for an older audience, from the creepy opening credits to the footage of a car bomb explosion to the mention of significant deaths associated with the violence in Iraq. Overall, the production quality is excellent.- Jennifer Verbrugge, State Library Services, Roseville, MN (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.