{"product_id":"between-two-rivers","title":"Between Two Rivers","description":"Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat they left behind, in a vast region that once sat 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 adorable, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTogether, these fragments illuminate not just the history of Mesopotamia, but the story of how history was made.","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51456771260763,"sku":"9781529392135","price":25.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/between-two-rivers","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}