Even to the heartland of European civilization, then still clustered around the Mediterranean ... ² Geographically, Europe claimed the splintering western flank of the great Eurasian landmass. It ...

In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known ... s been a link between the cylinder seal system and the invention of writing. The seals were also used as an accounting ...

Akenson argues that each of the great texts must be considered as the product of a single author and thus as a religious invention - that is ... of narrative history and thus the foundations of ...