Description:
One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2025
Humanity's earliest efforts at recording and drawing meaning from history reveal how lives millennia ago were not so different from our own.
Brief description: Moudhy Al-Rashid is an honorary fellow at the University of Oxford's Wolfson College, where she specializes in the languages and history of ancient Mesopotamia. Originally from Saudi Arabia, where she grew up, she now lives in Oxfordshire with her family and their dogs.
Review Quotes: Fascinating and magnificent, beautifully written and explained: Between Two Rivers is a masterpiece.--George Monbiot, author of Feral and The Invisible Doctrine