Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Never-before-published photographs from the Louvre's recently renovated Oriental antiquities galleries illustrate this analysis of the region's history and cultural dimensions.
Synopsis
Mesopotamia is credited with the invention of writing and of agriculture, and so is seen as the cradle of civilisation . The dazzling quality of the art of the Sumerians, Akkadian. Hittite, Assyrian and Persian empires speaks to the present about the culture and belief systems of these peoples. The text covers the origins of the cities and empires concerned, their view of the gods and the evolution of writing, including a special feature on the epic of Gilgamesh.