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 t...
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W.W. Norton and Company,
2025.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Al-Rashid, Moudhy N. |q (Moudhy Nasser), |d 1982- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Between two rivers : |b ancient Mesopotamia and the birth of history / |c Moudhy Al-Rashid. |
| 250 | |a First American edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b W.W. Norton and Company, |c 2025. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2025 | |
| 300 | |a viii, 327 pages ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-318) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: Mesopotamia matters -- An ancient museum and the history of history -- The clay drum : "the first written words started here" -- The brick of Amar-Suen : Mesopotamia's building blocks -- The statue of King Shulgi : how to be a good king -- The school tablets : ancient Babylonian ABCs -- The cone of Kudur-Mabuk : the birth of science -- The boundary stone : slaves and scribes, weavers and wives -- The mace head : the art vs reality of war -- Ennigaldi-Nanna : princess, priestess, and curator? -- Epilogue: Between us and them -- Acknowledgments -- Selected artifacts cited -- A timeline of ancient Mesopotamian history -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index. | |
| 520 | |a "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.... the world's first cities, the first writing system, early seeds of agriculture, and groundbreaking developments in medicine and astronomy"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 651 | 0 | |a Iraq |x History |y To 634. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Iraq |x Civilization |y To 634. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Iraq |x Kings and rulers. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Mesopotamia |x History. | |
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