In my book, Between Two Rivers, I take you through what it was like to go to school in ancient Babylonia.
Discarded clay tablets from schools preserve the many stages of education and also just…kids being kids. Like one who did this little doodle of (maybe) the teacher
Discarded clay tablets from schools preserve the many stages of education and also just…kids being kids. Like one who did this little doodle of (maybe) the teacher
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If US, the release date is Aug 12, and I think there is a https://bookshop.org there as well.
Blackwells and Waterstones also deliver internationally 🥰
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2018/10/chicken-wearing-trousers/
Hungry? Frustrated? Something else?
Like these practice wedges melt my heart. Just a single sideways wedge over and over again on a lump of clay by a child learning to write. Such an adorable mess.
I write about all this and more in my book, Between Two Rivers https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
I guess that plenty of tablets were simply recycled, but what a gift to have these.
You have piqued my interest.
Re audiobook, I believe so (details being ironed out), but unfortunately not till the US release date for the book which is August 12 😩
https://collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/Record/YPM-BC-021354