Babylonians (paperback) /anglais (Peoples of the past) - Tapa blanda

The people of ancient Mesopotamia, who settled in the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers before the 4th millennum BC, laid the foundations of western civilization. Some of the earliest experiments in agriculture and irrigation, the invention of writing, the birth of mathematics and the development of urban life all began there. In this text, the author describes the ebb and flow in the successive fortunes of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Amorites and Babylonians. Using evidence from pottery, cuneiform tablets, cyclinder seals, early architecture and metallurgy, he illuminates the myths, religion, languages, trade, politics and warfare, as well as the legacy, of the Babylonians and their predecessors.