Between Two Rivers
Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
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Between Two Rivers
Narrado por:
Moudhy Al-Rashid
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Moudhy Al-Rashid
Sobre este áudio
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 show us how much we share with people who lived many thousands of years ago - people who had already begun to relate to their own past, illuminating not just the history of Mesopotamia, but the story of how history was made.©2025 Moudhy Al-Rashid (P)2025 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Resumo da Crítica
Fascinating and magnificent, beautifully written and explained: this book is a masterpiece. (GEORGE MONBIOT, author of Feral and The Invisible Doctrine)
A marvellous book, which not only brims with humanity but offers fascinating and often funny insights into everyday life in this crucial era of world history. Fart jokes to exam stress, motherhood and tax evasion: you'll find something here that reminds you that this ancient history is not as remote as you might think. Al Rashid describes her job of reading ancient Mesopotamian texts as like shaking hands with strangers. (James Barr, author of A LINE IN THE SAND)
Absorbing, learned and witty, Between Two Rivers is far more than an account of ancient Mesopotamia. Al-Rashid offers an ingenious, passionate 'history of histories', spinning outwards from relics collected by a royal priestess more than 2,500 years ago. In discovering familiar human joys and sorrows - surviving in times of peace and war, dealing with royal and divine demands, the desperate love for our children - we vividly witness how lives across the millennia are revealed and connected by archaeology and cuneiform. (REBECCA WRAGG SYKES author of Kindred)
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