From ancient Sumer to the slaughter of the last royal family on the palace steps in Baghdad in 1958.
Land Between the Rivers: A 5000-Year History of Iraq
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£25.00
Edition:Hardback978183895785822/08/2024
Categories: 03. Summer 2024: History, History, Summer 2024
Tag: Middle East
From a Bookshelf nearby
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In the C13th, the largest library in Europe contained fewer than 2000 books. Baghdad alone contained five libraries with between 200,000 and a million books.
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There are those who swear he was a spy, others who insist he was too scatty or essentially lazy to be one. Whatever the truth, he was an exceptional linguist (Iranian, Afghan Persian, Arabic... read more