Ancient Mesopotamia
Ancient Mesopotamia "This splendid work of scholarship . . . Garside, New York Times Book ReviewAncient Mesopotamia-the area now called Iraq-has received less attention than ancient Egypt and other…
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Ancient Mesopotamia
"This splendid work of scholarship . . . Garside, New York Times Book ReviewAncient Mesopotamia-the area now called Iraq-has received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about the ancient and complementary civilizations of Babylon and Assyria."-Edward B.
Following Oppenheim's death, Erica Reiner used But numerous small clay tablets buried in the desert soil for thousands of years make it possible for us to know more about the people of ancient Mesopotamia than any other land in the early Near East.Professor Oppenheim, who studied these tablets for more than thirty years, used his intimate knowledge of long-dead languages to put together a distinctively personal picture of the Mesopotamians of some three thousand years ago.