{"product_id":"between-two-rivers-moudhy-al-rashid-9781324134589","title":"Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History","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.\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Moudhy Al-Rashid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1324134585\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324134589\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Moudhy Al-Rashid","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48450438463743,"sku":"9781324134589","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bbf4f4ad-b829-4561-a159-cc20890d2b65.jpg?v=1777267763","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/between-two-rivers-moudhy-al-rashid-9781324134589","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}