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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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton and Company,
2025.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
