{"product_id":"between-two-rivers","title":"Al-Rashid Moudhy: Between Two Rivers [2025] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThousands 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 \u003ci\u003eBetween Two Rivers\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Moudhy Al-Rashid","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50261517631827,"sku":"9781529392135","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":51487424938323,"sku":"XG81529392135","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/moudhy-al-rashid-al-rashid-moudhy-between-two-rivers-2025-paperback-9781529392135-61029143118163.jpg?v=1753721505","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/between-two-rivers","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}