{"product_id":"9781529392128-between-two-rivers","title":"Between Two Rivers","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'A WONDERFUL READ' -- TOM HOLLAND\u003cbr\u003eA fresh and fascinating new history of ancient Mesopotamia and the birth of history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I have never read a book on Mesopotamia that so beautifully brings to life the people themselves . It melts away the sense of time.' \u003cbr\u003eTOM HOLLAND\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Tender, moving and vivid.' \u003cbr\u003eROBERT MACFARLANE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Beautiful'\u003cbr\u003eSTEPHEN GREENBLATT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Fascinating and magnificent, beautifully written and explained: this book is a masterpiece.' \u003cbr\u003eGEORGE MONBIOT\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Ancient Mesopotamia comes alive in Moudhy Al-Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history . spellbinding' \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW SCIENTIST\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e----------\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBetween Two Rivers\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTogether, these fragments illuminate not just the history of Mesopotamia, but the story of how history was made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41801814147169,"sku":"9781529392128","price":22.81,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_31388287.jpg?v=1740741539","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529392128-between-two-rivers","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}