Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History by Moudhy Al Rashid USA Theodor Seuss Geisel--aka Dr

Theodor Seuss Geisel--aka Dr

with generous helpings of full-color photos

quirky festivals

--Jim Lahey

Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History by Moudhy Al Rashid USA Theodor Seuss Geisel--aka DrThousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time. What they left behind, in a vast region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, preserves leaps in human ingenuity, like the earliest depiction of a wheel and the first approximation of pi. But they also capture breathtakingly intimate, raw, and relatable moments, like a dog's paw prints as it accidentally stepped