What Makes Civilization? The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West by David Wengrow

What Makes Civilization? The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West

David Wengrow

237 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced

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Renowned archaeologist David Wengrow creates here a vivid new account of the "birth of civilization" in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, bringing together within a unified history the first two nations where people created cities, kingdoms, and monu...

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