They wrote on clay :
Published by : The University of Chicago Press, (Chicago :) Physical details: xv, 234 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Die Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie | 913.35 CHI (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | APA029598 |
Map on lining-papers.
The treasure hunt -- Books everlasting -- The mound of seven cities -- The dawn of understanding -- Ancient ABC's -- The world of business -- The business of religion -- King's tales -- Priest's tales -- Babel and Bible -- The search for truth -- The philosopher's stone -- The Three R's -- A people's resurrection -- Arts and the man -- Leaves from a diplomat's diary -- On to Greece and Rome -- West and East
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 excursion 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.
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