{"product_id":"9781324036425","title":"Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHumanity’s earliest efforts at recording and drawing meaning from history reveal how lives millennia ago were not so different from our own.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \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  \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  \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBetween Two Rivers\u003c\/em\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 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  \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":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49991001047280,"sku":"9781324036425","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781324036425","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}