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They Wrote on Clay : The Babylonian Tablets Speak Today by Edward Chiera (1956, Trade Paperback)

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Format: Paperback or Softback. Publication Date: 2/15/1956. ISBN: 9780226104256. Condition Guide. Item Availability.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press

ISBN-100226104257

ISBN-139780226104256

eBay Product ID (ePID)50462

Product Key Features

Number of Pages252 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameThey Wrote on Clay : the Babylonian Tablets Speak Today

SubjectArchaeology, Ancient / General, Essays & Travelogues

Publication Year1956

FeaturesReprint

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaTravel, Social Science, History

AuthorEdward Chiera

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight10 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN38-027631

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal913.358

Edition DescriptionReprint

Table Of ContentPrologue 1. The Treasure Hunt 2. Books Everlasting 3. The Mound of Seven Cities 4. The Dawn of Understanding 5. Ancient ABC's 6. The World of Business 7. The Business of Religion 8. Kings' Tales 9. Priests' Tales 10. Babel and Bible 11. The Search for Truth 12. The Philosopher's Stone 13. The Three R's 14. A People's Resurrection 15. Arts and the Man 16. Leaves from a Diplomat's Diary 17. On to Greece and Rome 18. West and East Epilogue Acknowledgments

SynopsisEdward Chiera was that most remarkable of men, a competent and respected scholar possessed of an ardent desire to make his research readily and entertainingly available to laymen. More remarkable, Chiera had extraordinary gifts to equal to his desire. They Wrote on Clay combines fascinatingly the fruits of sound and painstaking archeology with the natural-born storyteller's art. As transmitted by Chiera, the message of the recently discovered Babylonian clay tablets becomes an absorbing exrusion into the common life of a vanished civilization. Few will read They Wrote on Clay without becoming infected with something of Chiera's love for the rich archeological lore of the ancient Near East. "The book presents, briefly and clearly, a vivid picture of a long-dead people who in numerous ways were very like ourselves."-L. M. Field, New York Times "No mystery story can be as exciting."- Harper's "Plainly and fetchingly written."- New Republic, Edward Chiera was that most remarkable of men, a competent and respected scholar possessed of an ardent desire to make his research readily and entertainingly available to laymen. More remarkable, Chiera had extraordinary gifts to equal to his desire. They Wrote on Clay combines fascinatingly the fruits of sound and painstaking archeology with the natural-born storyteller's art. As transmitted by Chiera, the message of the recently discovered Babylonian clay tablets becomes an absorbing exrusion into the common life of a vanished civilization. Few will read They Wrote on Clay without becoming infected with something of Chiera's love for the rich archeological lore of the ancient Near East. "The book presents, briefly and clearly, a vivid picture of a long-dead people who in numerous ways were very like ourselves."--L. M. Field, New York Times "No mystery story can be as exciting."-- Harper's "Plainly and fetchingly written."-- New Republic