📗 Libro en inglés THE LIBRARY OF ANCIENT WISDOM

The Library of Ancient Wisdom pieces together a vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life from the shattered remnants of the 30 000 or so tablets in Ashurbanipal s library which not only bring kings and queens to life but also priests traders and professional lamenters New Scientist Fascinating and rich in detail provides an excellent survey of Mesopotamian literary classics and offers snippets of daily life Literary Review The story of the ancient world s most spectacular library and the civilization that created itWhen 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 first written language in the world More than half of human history is written in cuneiform but only a few hundred people on earth can read it In this captivating new book Assyriologist Selena Wisnom takes us on an immersive tour of this ext