From the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, skilled scribes were writing down the words and deeds of the ancient rulers of Sumer and Akkad four thousand years ago. Brings to life the world of the ancient Mesopotamians with accounts of their rulers, conquests, laws, maps, and religious beliefs. Includes examples of Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugarit, Babylonian, and Assyrian scripts carved into clay tablets and pillars using cuneiform letters. Features some of the most important written records from ancient Mesopotamia, such as the Sumerian King List, the legal code of Hammurabi, the Hittite-Egyptian treaty of Kadesh, and the mythological Epic of Gilgamesh.