{"product_id":"9781529392135","title":"Between Two Rivers : 'A WONDERFUL READ' -- TOM HOLLAND by Moudhy Al-Rashid","description":"\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \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\u003eTogether, these fragments illuminate not just the history of Mesopotamia, but the story of how history was made.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303648473461,"sku":"9781529392135","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781529392135.jpg?v=1762794639","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781529392135","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}