"Every so often a book comes on the market which is extraordinary, not only in production, layout, original photographs, plans and line drawings, but also in ground-breaking content. Peter Sheehan's Babylon of Egypt is one such book."--Al-Ahram Weekly "A landmark study . Highly recommended."--Choice That Sheehan was obliged to operate on an essentially rescue-archaeology basis makes the long list of achievements documented in this book all the more remarkable. Any research that broadens our archaeological purview of Egypt to include the brilliance of Egyptian history in the medieval period is a welcome corrective to Egyptological obsessions and lingering and still widespread Orientalist tropes that present Egyptian civilisation as having ended with the death of Cleopatra. In contrast, Sheehan s multi-periodic treatment of Babylon presents the Egyptian past as an accretion of human action and occupation in which each layer of human activity is contingent on and shaped by that which went before. John P.

Cooper, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology.