{"product_id":"between-two-rivers","title":"Between Two Rivers\nby Moudhy Al-Rashid","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of Library Journal's Best Books of 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Breathes life into the dry clay of philology.” ?Dominic Green, Wall Street Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHumanity’s earliest efforts at recording and drawing meaning from history reveal how lives millennia ago were not so different from our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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":"Books Feri","offers":[{"title":"Premium Paperback","offer_id":45702206750911,"sku":null,"price":270.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"Premium Hardcover","offer_id":45702206783679,"sku":null,"price":370.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0692\/8148\/0895\/files\/91nLKVulqnL.jpg?v=1780809865","url":"https:\/\/booksferi.store\/products\/between-two-rivers","provider":"Books Feri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}