The Library Of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia And Making History Selena Wisnom Allen Lane Αγγλικά Βιβλία World

\ Selena Wisnom\ S Book Is A Great Work Of Revelatory History But I Was Also Unexpectedly Moved By Its Measured Optimism About The Future - For Preservation Heritage Mesopotamia Ways Rhymes Across Millennia And Library As Heart Any Culture Worth Remembering\ Emma Smith Author Portable Magic: Books Their Readersthe Story Ancient World’s Most Spectacular Civilization That Created Itwhen Team Victorian Archaeologists Dug Into Grassy Hill In Iraq They Chanced Upon One Oldest Greatest Stores Knowledge Ever Seen: Assyrian King Ashurbanipal Seventh Century Bce Ruler Huge Swathe Middle East Known After His Death Vengeful Rivals Burned Ashurbanipal’s To Ground Yet Texts Carved On Clay Tablets Were Baked Preserved Heat Buried Written Cuneiform: First Language World More Than Half Human Cuneiform Only Few Hundred People Earth Can Read It This Captivating New Assyriologist Wisnom Takes Us An Immersive Tour Extraordinary Bringing Life Through We Encounter Astonishing Richness Complexity Sophistication She Shows Home Advanced Mathematics Astronomy Banking Law Literature Absorbed Developed Greeks Whose Myths Precursors Bible Stories Short Without Which Our Lives Today Would Be Unrecognizable Wisdom Unearths At Once Strange Strangely Familiar: Land Capricious Gods Exorcisms Professional Lamenters Citizens Wrote Jealous Rivalries Profound Friendships Petty Grievances These Pages Come Face With Humanity’s Civilization: Startling Achievements Daily Struggle Understand Place Universe Σελίδες: 448 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0527 Διαστάσεις: 16 3X16 3Cm