BETWEEN TWO RIVERS

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 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 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 count