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Between Two Rivers
- 'A WONDERFUL READ' -- TOM HOLLAND
Engelsk Paperback
Between Two Rivers
- 'A WONDERFUL READ' -- TOM HOLLAND
Engelsk Paperback

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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 that once sat 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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
0
ISBN-13:
9781529392135
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1529392136
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
20 feb 2025
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
234mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
Hodder & Stoughton
Oplagsdato:
20 feb 2025
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