Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia

by Stephen Bertman

Book Overview

Modern-day archaeological discoveries in the Near East continue to illuminate our understanding of the ancient world, including the many contributions made by the people of Mesopotamia to literature,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816043469
• ISBN13: 9780816043460
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Facts on File
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.8" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

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I just spent about 10 minutes with this book in a store. I know the genre of "Travel Books to Ancient Lands", however, and I'd say that this book is worth its weight in gold! It's chock full of interesting tidbits on how the Sumerians lived in a very readable format. Academics should take notes -books like this will fly off the shelves! It's very anthropological: It covers a very broad range of topics in Sumerian life. There was food, worship, travel, language, and other things. Aside from their language and its writing system, this is the kind of information that I WANT in a book about a culture, a civilization. King Lists and Mythologies are fine (excellent in the original language) but give me the culmination of 150 years of digging and writing -I want to know what the run-of-the-mill man's work-a-day life was like, too. This book is jam-packed with facts. If you can spare the money and you want to know how Sumerians lived their life, this is it.