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The Assyrians were really not so different from us

Selena Wisnom shows us children toiling over their writing tablets, taking pride in schoolwork, and a heartbroken scribe finding consolation in literature after the death of his king in battle

Dennis Duncan
Detail from the lion hunt of Ashurbanipal. Getty Images
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 01 March 2025
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  • The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World

    Selena Wisnom

    Allen Lane, pp. 320, £25

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