What Makes Civilization? - The Ancient Near East and the Future of the WestPaperback
What Makes Civilization? - The Ancient Near East and the Future of the WestPaperback The targeted destruction of ancient sites and monuments in the Middle East provokes widespread outrage in the…
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What Makes Civilization? - The Ancient Near East and the Future of the WestPaperback
The targeted destruction of ancient sites and monuments in the Middle East provokes widespread outrage in the West. In this updated edition of What Makes Civilization? But what is our connection to the ancient Near East?
It is the story of how people first created kingdoms and monuments to the gods and, just as importantly, how they pioneered everyday practices that we might now take for granted, such as familiar ways of cooking food and keeping the house and body clean. archaeologist David Wengrow investigates the origins of farming, writing, and cities in ancient Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Egypt, and explores the connections between these two civilizations. Wengrow asks why these ancient cultures, where so many features of modern life originated, have come to symbolize the remote and the exotic.
Today, perhaps more than ever, he argues, the beleaguered cultural heritage of ancient Egypt