BETWEEN TWO RIVERS: ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA AND THE BIRTH OF HISTORY

MOUDHY AL-RASHID

ISBN 10: 1529392136 / ISBN 13: 9781529392135

Published by Hodder Press Hodder & Stoughton

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: BETWEEN TWO RIVERS: ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA AND THE BIRTH OF HISTORY
• Publisher: Hodder Press Hodder & Stoughton
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1529392136
• ISBN 13: 9781529392135
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: International Edition
• Condition: New Books

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Synopsis

A fresh and fascinating new history of ancient Mesopotamia and the birth of history.

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 that once sat 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.