Prussian Socialism episode 9 Mesopotamian Civilization. Two thousand five hundred years before the age of Classical Greece, the ancient Mesopotamians invented writing. For three millennia, they built up and maintained the world’s first great culture. But after that, its memory vanished for two thousand years, only to be preserved in a few vague Biblical and classical retellings. But in the 19th century, in one of the greatest feats of European scholarship, the writing and languages of ancient Mesopotamia were rediscovered and deciphered. Since then, scholars have pieced together the story of this long-lost civilization. What can we learn from this history before history?
History books mentioned:
Ancient Iraq by Georges Roux
Ancient Mesopotamia Leo Oppenheim
The Sumerians Samuel Kramer
Slavery in Babylonia by Dandamaev
Language books mentioned:
A Grammar of Akkadian by John Huehnegard
Complete Babylonian by Martin Worthington