Ragozin opens among the shapeless mounds of Mesopotamia, recalling how Xenophon’s Ten Thousand marched past the ruins of Nineveh without knowing them, and then follows the excavators who brought Chaldea back to light. From there she reconstructs the peoples of Shumir and Accad, their cuneiform writing, magic, gods and legends, weighing the competing theories of who settled the land first.
Part of the Story of the Nations series; its scholarship reflects Assyriology as it stood in the 1880s, which makes it a fascinating period piece. Download the free EPUB.