{"product_id":"between-two-rivers-ancient-mesopotamia-the-birth-of-history-1","title":"Between Two River","description":"\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\u003e TOM HOLLAND\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Tender, moving and vivid.'\u003cbr\u003e ROBERT MACFARLANE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Beautiful'\u003cbr\u003e STEPHEN GREENBLATT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Fascinating and magnificent, beautifully written and explained: this book is a masterpiece.'\u003cbr\u003e GEORGE 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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e ----------\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \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\u003e Together, these fragments illuminate not just the history of Mesopotamia, but the story of how history was made.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia \u0026 the Birth of History","offer_id":46004398031045,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-5293-9216-6.jpg?v=1774577589","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/between-two-rivers-ancient-mesopotamia-the-birth-of-history-1","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}