{"product_id":"b0dk43qvdc","title":"Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of  Library Journal 's Best Books of 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Breathes life into the dry clay of philology.” ―Dominic Green,  Wall Street Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHumanity’s earliest efforts at recording and drawing meaning from history reveal how lives millennia ago were not so different from our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThousands 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\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\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 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\n\u003cp\u003eMillennia ago, Mesopotamians saw the world’s first cities, the first writing system, early seeds of agriculture, and groundbreaking developments in medicine and astronomy. With breathtaking intimacy and grace, Al-Rashid brings their lives―with all their anxieties, aspirations, and intimacies―vividly close to our own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52855320903896,"sku":"YSL83108","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0835\/3356\/2072\/files\/91nLKVulqnL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793417734","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmebay.com\/products\/b0dk43qvdc","provider":"BookMebay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}