Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History

Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began...
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Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History by Al-Rashid, Moudhy

Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History

$31.99

Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History

$31.99
Author: Moudhy Al-Rashid
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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, 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.

Millennia 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.



Author: Moudhy Al-Rashid
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/12/2025
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781324036425


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2025 pg. 11
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2025
Publishers Weekly 06/23/2025

About the Author
Al-Rashid, Moudhy: - Moudhy Al-Rashid is an honorary fellow at the University of Oxford's Wolfson College, where she specializes in the languages and history of ancient Mesopotamia. Originally from Saudi Arabia, where she grew up, she now lives in Oxfordshire with her family and their dogs.

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