Between two rivers : 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 between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, preserves leaps in human ingenuity, like the earliest depiction of a wheel and th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton and Company,
[2025].
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | 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. Millennia ago, Mesopotamians saw the world's first cities, the first writing system, early seeds of agriculture and groundbreaking developments in medicine and astronomy. With intimacy and grace, Al-Rashid brings their lives, with all their anxieties, aspirations and intimacies, vividly close to our own. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 327 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781324036425 1324036427 |