Mesopotamian myths
Subtitle: the legendary past
Series: The Legendary Past
Publisher: British Museum Press
Published: October 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780714120638
Subjects: Myth & legend told as fiction
First sentence: In the first half of the seventeenth century, an urbane and well-educated Italian nobleman called Pietro della Valle made a spectacular journey to the east, a journey which began in Venice and took him to Constantinople, Alexandria, over the Sinai desert, back to the pyramids, across Palestine by caravan, to Damascus, Aleppo and Baghdad.