BabylonIn Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements around 5400 BC to the eclipse of Babylon by the Persians in the sixth century BC. He chronicles the rise and fall of dynastic power during this period and examines its numerous material, social, and cultural innovations and inventions: the wheel, civil engineering, building bricks, the centralised state, the division of labour, organised religion,