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Between Two Rivers: 'A WONDERFUL READ' -- TOM HOLLAND
Between Two Rivers: 'A WONDERFUL READ' -- TOM HOLLAND
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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.
- Publisher: Hodder Press
- Dimensions: 15.2 x 2.6 x 23.2 cm
- Language: English
- Print length: 336 pages
- Item weight: 41 g
- Edition: 1st
- Book Type: Paperback
- ISBN-10: 1529392136
- ISBN-13: 978-1529392135
- Publication date: 25 February 2025
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