Reading and Writing in Babylon [French]

by Dominique Charpin

Book Overview

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 script to document everything from royal archives to family records.

In engaging style, Dominique Charpin shows how hundreds of thousands of clay tablets testify to the history of an ancient...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: French
• ISBN: 0674049683
• ISBN13: 9780674049680
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.4"