Description:
One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2025
"Breathes life into the dry clay of philology." --Dominic Green, Wall Street Journal
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: Al-Rashid of Oxford University takes readers on a tour of this most distant niche of human history, attempting to illuminate still further the daily lives behind the dusty relics they left behind.--Colin Dwyer "NPR"