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[history] The Mesopotamian Riddle by Joshua Hammer | 19.78 MB
Title: The Mesopotamian Riddle
Author: Joshua Hammer
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A rollicking adventure starring three free-spirited Victorians on a twenty-year quest to decipher cuneiform, the oldest writing in the world-from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu.
It was one of history's great vanishing acts.
Around 3,400 BCE-as humans were gathering in complex urban settlements-a scribe in the mud-walled city-state of Uruk picked up a reed stylus to press tiny symbols into clay. For three millennia, wedge shape cuneiform script would record the military conquests, scientific discoveries, and epic literature of the great Mesopotamian kingdoms of Sumer, Assyria, and Babylon and of Persia's mighty Achaemenid Empire, along with precious minutiae about everyday life in the cradle of civilization. And then...the meaning of the characters was lost.
London, 1857. In an era obsessed with human progress, mysterious palaces emerging from the desert sands had...
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A rollicking adventure starring three free-spirited Victorians on a twenty-year quest to decipher cuneiform, the oldest writing in the world-from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu.
It was one of history's great vanishing acts.
Around 3,400 BCE-as humans were gathering in complex urban settlements-a scribe in the mud-walled city-state of Uruk picked up a reed stylus to press tiny symbols into clay. For three millennia, wedge shape cuneiform script would record the military conquests, scientific discoveries, and epic literature of the great Mesopotamian kingdoms of Sumer, Assyria, and Babylon and of Persia's mighty Achaemenid Empire, along with precious minutiae about everyday life in the cradle of civilization. And then...the meaning of the characters was lost.
London, 1857. In an era obsessed with human progress, mysterious palaces emerging from the desert sands had...
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