Between Two Rivers
'A WONDERFUL READ' -- TOM HOLLAND
Moudhy Al-Rashid
- 'I
- have
- never
- read
- a
- book
- on
- Mesopotamia
- that
- so
- beautifully
- brings
- to
- life
- the
- people
- themselves
- ...
- It
- melts
- away
- the
- sense
- of
- time.
- A
- wonderful
- read.'
TOM
- HOLLAND'A
- tender,
- moving
- and
- vivid
- history
- of
- ancient
- Mesopotamia
- and
- how
- it
- still
- speaks
- to
- us.'
ROBERT
- MACFARLANE'Fascinating
- and
- magnificent,
- beautifully
- written
- and
- explained:
- this
- book
- is
- a
- masterpiece.'
GEORGE
- MONBIOT'Ancient
- Mesopotamia
- comes
- alive
- in
- Moudhy
- Al-Rashid's
- must-read,
- millennia-spanning
- history
- ...
- spellbinding.'
NEW
- SCIENTIST----------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.
- 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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