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ARTS: BOOKS: No bull mounted cow, no donkey impregnated jenny (phew!) A new study of ancient Mesopotamia intrigues A C Grayling by its understanding of law, literature and divine libido;
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Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City By Gwendolyn Leick ALLEN
LANE pounds 25
Because of Saddam Hussein, British and American pilots every day
look down from the cockpits of their jet fighters at Eden, the home
not of mankind but of civilisation. They do this because they patrol
southern Iraqi airspace, and their view includes the evocative land
where the Tigris and Euphrates join together to run into vast
marshlands, which in turn dissolve into the Persian Gulf. Just north
of the ma...
