In ancient times, the vast area that stretches across what is now modern-day Iraq and Syria saw the rise and fall of epic civilizations who built the foundations of our world today. It was in this region, which we call Mesopotamia, that history was written down for the very first time.
With startling modernity, the people of Mesopotamia left behind hundreds of thousands of fragments of their everyday lives. Immortalised in clay and stone are intimate details from 4000 years ago. We find accounts of an enslaved person negotiating their freedom, a dog's paw prints as it accidentally stepped into fresh clay, a parent desperately trying to soothe a baby with a lullaby, the imprint of a child's teeth as it sank them into their clay homework, and countless receipts for beer.
In Between Two Rivers, historian Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid examines what these people chose to preserve in their own words about their lives, creating the first historical records and allowing us to brush hands with them thousands of years later.
Bringing us closer than ever before to the lives of ancient people,?Between Two Rivers?tells not just the history of Mesopotamia, but the story of how history was made.
| ISBN: | 9781529392128 |
| Publication date: | 20th February 2025 |
| Author: | Moudhy N. Al-Rashid |
| Publisher: | Hodder an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 336 pages |
| Primary Genre | History |
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In ancient times, the vast area that stretches across what is now modern-day Iraq and Syria saw the rise and fall of epic civilizations who built the foundations of our world today. It was in this region, which we call Mesopotamia, that history was written down for the very first time.
With startling modernity, the people of Mesopotamia left behind hundreds of thousands of fragments of their everyday lives. Immortalised in clay and stone are intimate details from 4000 years ago. We find accounts of an enslaved person negotiating their freedom, a dog's paw prints as it accidentally stepped into fresh clay, a parent desperately trying to soothe a baby with a lullaby, the imprint of a child's teeth as it sank them into their clay homework, and countless receipts for beer.
In Between Two Rivers, historian Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid examines what these people chose to preserve in their own words about their lives, creating the first historical records and allowing us to brush hands with them thousands of years later.
Bringing us closer than ever before to the lives of ancient people,?Between Two Rivers?tells not just the history of Mesopotamia, but the story of how history was made.
Between Two Rivers features in the following genres: History, Ancient history, Archaeology
Between Two Rivers is available in Hardback
Between Two Rivers was written by Moudhy N. Al-Rashid and published by Hodder an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton
Between Two Rivers has 336 pages
