Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
Â“Utilizing a generation of new scholarship, Karen Nemet-Nejat has given us a lively, up-to-date account of daily life in ancient MesopotamiaÂ—from the foods that were eaten, the games that were played, the gods who were served, to methods of surveying and fortune-tellingÂ—in short, the whole gamut of life over two thousand years in one of the great literate civilizations of the ancient world.Â”Â—Robert D. Biggs, Professor of Assyriology, Oriental Institute, University of ChicagoÂ“The author has here distilled the essence of a vast number of studies and translations to craft a synthesis that is at once authoritative and eminently readable.Â”Â—William W. Hallo, The William M. Laffan Professor of Assyriolgy and Babylonian Literature, Yale UniversityÂ“Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia is a welcome addition for those who teach introductory courses on Mesopotamian (or Near Eastern) civilization and have searched in vain for a useful supplemental text.Â”Â—Journal of Near Eastern Studies --Review