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Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City

Gwendolyn Leick
3.75/5 (362 ratings)
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Over 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, urban living began...

Mesopotamia, situated roughly where Iraq is today, was one of the greatest ancient civilizations. It was here that the very first cities were created, and where the familiar sights of modern urban life - public buildings and gardens, places of worship, even streets and pavements - were originally invented.

This remarkable book is the first to reveal everyday life as it was in ten long-lost Mesopotamian cities, beginning with Eridu, the Mesopotamian Eden, and ending with Babylon, the first true metropolis: cosmopolitan, decadent, multicultural and the last centre of a dying civilization. Using archaeological fragments of jewellery, textiles and writings Gwendolyn Leick paints a colourful picture of the lives of Mesopotamians - from poets and priests to business-women and divorcees - and the incredible achievements of their advanced and imaginative society.

As Leick convincingly shows, Mesopotamian antiquity has as much interest as, and even greater importance than, Egypt; and her welcome book helps redress the balance of knowledge in its direction. - Independent on Sunday
Format:
Pages:
360 pages
Publication:
2002
Publisher:
Penguin Books Limited
Edition:
Illustrated
Language:
en-GB
ISBN10:
0140265740
ISBN13:
9780140265743
kindle Asin:
B002RI8ZPU

Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City

Gwendolyn Leick
3.75/5 (362 ratings)
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Over 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, urban living began...

Mesopotamia, situated roughly where Iraq is today, was one of the greatest ancient civilizations. It was here that the very first cities were created, and where the familiar sights of modern urban life - public buildings and gardens, places of worship, even streets and pavements - were originally invented.

This remarkable book is the first to reveal everyday life as it was in ten long-lost Mesopotamian cities, beginning with Eridu, the Mesopotamian Eden, and ending with Babylon, the first true metropolis: cosmopolitan, decadent, multicultural and the last centre of a dying civilization. Using archaeological fragments of jewellery, textiles and writings Gwendolyn Leick paints a colourful picture of the lives of Mesopotamians - from poets and priests to business-women and divorcees - and the incredible achievements of their advanced and imaginative society.

As Leick convincingly shows, Mesopotamian antiquity has as much interest as, and even greater importance than, Egypt; and her welcome book helps redress the balance of knowledge in its direction. - Independent on Sunday
Format:
Pages:
360 pages
Publication:
2002
Publisher:
Penguin Books Limited
Edition:
Illustrated
Language:
en-GB
ISBN10:
0140265740
ISBN13:
9780140265743
kindle Asin:
B002RI8ZPU

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