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9780241519639: The Library of Ancient Wisdom : Mesopotamia and the Making of History
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ISBN 10: 0241519632 ISBN 13: 9780241519639
Casa editrice: Allen Lane, 2025

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Selena Wisnom is Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East at the University of Leicester. A specialist in the interpretation of Mesopotamian cultural sources, Selena's previous works include Weapons of Words: Intertextual Competition in Babylonian Poetry. She has also written three plays set in ancient Assyria; the most recent, Ashurbanipal: The Last Great King of Assyria was staged at the London's Crypt Gallery in 2019.

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When a team of Victorian archaeologists dug into a grassy hill in Iraq, they chanced upon one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge ever seen: the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, seventh century BCE ruler of a huge swathe of the ancient Middle East known as Mesopotamia. After his death, vengeful rivals burned Ashurbanipal’s library to the ground - yet the texts, carved on clay tablets, were baked and preserved by the heat. Buried for millennia, the tablets were written in cuneiform: the

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Editore
Allen Lane
Data di pubblicazione
2025
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0241519632
ISBN 13 
9780241519639
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
174
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