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Between two rivers : ancient Mesopotamia and the birth of history

Al-Rashid, Moudhy N. (Moudhy Nasser), 1982- author

2025

Overview

In ancient times, the vast area that stretches across what is now modern-day Iraq and Syria saw the rise and fall of epic civilizations who built the foundations of our world today. It was in this region, which we call Mesopotamia, that history was written down for the very first time. With startling modernity, the people of Mesopotamia left behind hundreds of thousands of fragments of their everyday lives. Immortalised in clay and stone are intimate details from 4000 years ago. We find accounts of an enslaved person negotiating their freedom, a dog's paw prints as it accidentally stepped into fresh clay, a parent desperately trying to soothe a baby with a lullaby, and countless receipts for beer. Historian Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid examines what these people chose to preserve in their own words about their lives, creating the first historical records and allowing us to brush hands with them thousands of years later.

• Publisher: Hodder Press
• Subject: History. / Iraq History To 634. / Iraq Civilization To 634. / Iraq Social conditions. / Iraq Social life and customs. / Iraq Antiquities.
• ISBN: 9781529392128, 9781529392135

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