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Between Two Rivers
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Between Two Rivers
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''I have never read a book on Mesopotamia that so beautifully brings to life the people themselves ... It melts away the sense of time. A wonderful read.'' TOM HOLLAND''A tender, moving and vivid history of ancient Mesopotamia and how it still speaks to us.'' ROBERT MACFARLANE''Fascinating and magnificent, beautifully written and explained: this book is a masterpiece.'' GEORGE MONBIOT''Ancient Mesopotamia comes alive in Moudhy Al-Rashid''s must-read, millennia-spanning history ... spellbinding'' NEW SCIENTIST----------Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time.What they left behind, in a vast region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, preserves leaps in human ingenuity, like the earliest depiction of a wheel and the first approximation of pi. But they also capture breathtakingly intimate, raw and relatable moments, like a dog''s paw prints as it accidentally stepped into fresh clay, or the imprint of a child''s teeth.In Between Two Rivers, historian Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid reveals what these ancient people chose to record about their lives, allowing us to brush hands with them millennia later. We find a lullaby to soothe a baby, instructions for exorcising a ghost, countless receipts for beer, and the adorable, messy writing of preschoolers. We meet an enslaved person negotiating their freedom, an astronomer tracing the movement of the planets, a princess who may have created the world''s first museum, and a working mother struggling with ''the juggle'' in 1900 BCE.Together, these fragments illuminate not just the history of Mesopotamia, but the story of how history was made.
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| Author | Al-rashid, Moudhy |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| ISBN-13 | 9781529392128 |
| Item Height | 3.1 |
| Item Length | 16.3 |
| Item Width | 24.3 |
| Publisher | Hachette Hardbacks |
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