Entre dos ríos : La antigua Mesopotamia y el nacimiento de la historia

More than five thousand years ago, between the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the first civilization in history arose. Mesopotamia was the birthplace of writing, mathematics, astronomy, and some of the first empires. Its cities were inhabited by real and legendary kings such as Sargon of Akkad, Hammurabi, and Gilgamesh, as well as princesses and priestesses, scribes, warriors, merchants, and astronomers who left behind the first written traces of humanity, inscribed on clay tablets. Thanks to tablets, inscriptions, letters, poems, commercial records, and the latest archaeological discoveries, Moudhy Al-Rashid reconstructs the fascinating history of Mesopotamia from a unique perspective: that of the objects and the people who lived there. From royal statues, war monuments, laws, rituals, beer receipts, lullabies to put a baby to sleep, the clumsy handwriting of the first schoolchildren in history, or the footprints of a dog on a newly molded tablet, we will discover a world of conquests, beliefs, science, and everyday life.