"Offers insight into ancient times through the words of its peoples, featuring some of the most important written records from ancient Mesopotamia, including: the Sumerian King List, the Code of Hammurabi, the Hittite-Egyptian treaty of Kadesh, and the Epic of Gilgamesh, with examples of scripts carved into clay tablets and pillars using cuneiform letters"--Provided by publisher.

"Offers insight into ancient times through the words of its peoples by featuring modern translations of some of the most important written records from ancient Greece, including: the Phaistos Disk; boundary stone of the Agora; the Aristotle Herma; and the Parian Marble, with examples of Greek lettering adapted from the Phoenician alphabet"--Provided by publisher.