{"product_id":"they-wrote-on-clay-the-babylonian-tablets-speak-today-9780226104256","title":"They Wrote on Clay: The Babylonian Tablets Speak Today","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Edward Chiera | George G. Cameron\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Essays \u0026amp; Travelogues\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward 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. \u003ci\u003eThey Wrote on Clay\u003c\/i\u003e 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 exrusion into the common life of a vanished civilization. Few will read \u003ci\u003eThey Wrote on Clay \u003c\/i\u003ewithout becoming infected with something of Chiera's love for the rich archeological lore of the ancient Near East. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The book presents, briefly and clearly, a vivid picture of a long-dead people who in numerous ways were very like ourselves.\"--L. M. Field, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"No mystery story can be as exciting.\"--\u003ci\u003eHarper's \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Plainly and fetchingly written.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew Republic \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47615616974999,"sku":"9780226104256","price":4257.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780226104256.webp?v=1775102257","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/they-wrote-on-clay-the-babylonian-tablets-speak-today-9780226104256","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}