{"product_id":"9781529392128","title":"Between Two Rivers","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Moudhy Al-Rashid\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eMesopotamia | BCE to c 500 CE | Ancient history: to c 500 CE | Archaeology\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e February 2025 by Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 336 pages, N\/A \u003cbr\u003e163mm x 243mm x 31mm | 538g\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTogether, these fragments illuminate not just the history of Mesopotamia, but the story of how history was made.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners Books Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55458744664439,"sku":"9781529392128","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781529392128.jpg?v=1752741206","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.co.uk\/products\/9781529392128","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}