Reading and Writing in Babylon by Dominique Charpin

Reading and Writing in Babylon

Dominique Charpin with Jane Marie Todd (Translator)

315 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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Over 5,000 years ago, the history of humanity radically changed direction when writing was invented in Sumer, the southern part of present-day Iraq. For the next three millennia, kings, aristocrats, and slaves all made intensive use of cuneiform s...

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