Studying the world’s oldest writing for the first time compels you to wonder about what writing is and how it came about more than five thousand years ago and what the world might have looked...

Is that a ziggurat in your pocket or are you just Mesopotamia? You should know I sell happy-to-see-me’s & bananas individually or by the pocketful.

During the first millennium BCE, even the beer-loving Mesopotamians turned their backs on beer, which was dethroned as the most cultured and civilized of drinks, and the age of wine began.