Although only two centuries had passed, Xenophon had no inkling the ruins he encountered were Assyrian ... back to life in the 1840s and ’50s is the subject of “The Mesopotamian Riddle,” Joshua Hammer ...

When the ruins of the library were found in Victorian ... pieces together a vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life from the shattered remnants of the 30,000 or so tablets in Ashurbanipal's library.

Oxford historian, Dr Moudhy Al Rashid, on her book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History ...