Between Two Rivers
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Krátky popis
'I have never read a book on Mesopotamia that so beautifully brings
to life the people themselves ... It melts away the sense of
time.'TOM HOLLAND'Tender, moving and vivid.'ROBERT
MACFARLANE'Beautiful'STEPHEN GREENBLATT'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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Hodder & Stoughton ,
Moudhy Al-Rashid
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Hodder & Stoughton,
Moudhy Al-Rashid
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Slovart
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