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Description

Our ancestors, the Mesopotamians, invented writing and with it a new way of looking at the world. In this collection of essays, the French scholar Jean Bottero attempts to go back to the moment which marks the very beginning of history. To give the reader some sense of how Mesopotamian... read more

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IT IS INEVITABLE THAT, WHEN ONE REACHES A CERTAIN POINT IN LIFE, one is tempted to look backwards in order to evaluate, and as a result justify, a road that is already long.

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  1. Jean Botte?ro (Author)
 

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