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| Title Statement | Between two rivers: ancient Mesopotamia and the birth of history / Moudhy Al-Rashid. |
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| Alternative Title(s) | Ancient Mesopotamia and the birth of history |
| Author | Al-Rashid, Moudhy N.(Moudhy Nasser), 1982- |
| Publication | New York: W. W. Norton and Company,2025. |
| Edition | First American edition. |
| Extent of Item | viii, 327 pages ; |
| ISBN | 9781324036425 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07975502 |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary | "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 ... the world's first cities, the first writing system, early seeds of agriculture, and groundbreaking developments in medicine and astronomy"-- |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Location | Iraq--History--To 634 |
| Mesopotamia--Civilization | |
| Mesopotamia--History | |
| Mesopotamia--Kings and rulers | |
