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From the first writing in Sumer to the fall of Persia: three thousand years of cities, empires, peoples and gods between the Nile and the Tigris, and what clay tablets, inscriptions and archaeology tell us, told by Sophia with Philo, Marcos and Demetria, with grammar at every level and a gamebook for each part.
Volume I of the History of the Ancient World. Every lesson labels what scholars agree on, what they debate and what nobody knows, and asks the same questions of every people’s texts. Wars and conquests are told briefly and without graphic detail. Philo speaks as a believer who reads his scriptures carefully; modern discoveries are told by Sophia as things still to come. A companion to Myths of the Near East and Stories from the Septuagint.
Tablets, stones, layers of earth, and one rule for every people’s books.
Writing, pyramids, kings and laws in Mesopotamia, Egypt and Iran.
The first stone buildings, the Great Pyramid, its workers, and the Tale of Sinuhe.
Susa, a script still unread, and the people who carried off Hammurabi’s stone.
An eye for an eye, a goring ox, and laws for slaves in both codes.
Egypt’s empire, the Hittites and Mitanni, letters on clay, and a world that collapsed.
A woman who ruled as king, a king who abolished the gods, and the first strike.
A horse-training manual, a royal marriage, and gods with Sanskrit names.
A forgotten empire, the oldest peace treaty, and a language unlocked.
Canaan’s kings write to their Egyptian overlord.
The first mention of Israel outside the Bible.
Small kingdoms, sea traders, a world empire, the black pharaohs, and the gods of Canaan.
Where did Israel come from? What the villages show.
Two small kingdoms in other peoples’ inscriptions.
Purple dye, cedar ships, and twenty-two letters that went round the world.
The first world empire: fear, propaganda and a library.
Mountain fortresses, the real King Midas, and the first coins.
The kings from Nubia who ruled Egypt, and the queen who fought Rome.
Baal, Asherah, Chemosh and Yahweh, and a traveller’s jar at Kuntillet Ajrud.
The city of the stargazers, and the largest empire yet.
The Ishtar Gate, the stargazers, and the exiles by the rivers.
Behistun, the Royal Road and Persepolis.
Persia’s frontier on the Nile: Egyptians, Jews and Arameans.
Truth and the Lie, judgement at the bridge, and the debate about influence.
When was the Torah written, and what does archaeology find?
The Persian-period consensus, and the Hellenistic debate.
What the evidence shows, and what it does not.