
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Discover the World’s Oldest Writing by ...
Cracking hieroglyphs and opening the pharaohs tombs? Those are triumphs of 19th century archeology still remembered. But other diggers and scholars were at work elsewhere, including Mesopotamia (Iraq), the fertile land that nurtured civilizations older …