Between Two Rivers: 'A WONDERFUL READ' -- TOM HOLLAND

di Moudhy Al-Rashid (Autore)

Hodder & Stoughton, 2025

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.

• Autore: Moudhy Al-Rashid
• Editore: Hodder & Stoughton
• Anno: 2025
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 336 p.
• Dimensioni: 232 x 152 mm
• Peso: 407 gr.
• EAN: 9781529392135

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