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Ancient Mesopotamia. The series Your
Hermitage The series Your Hermitage is addressed to school children and has been prepared in keeping with the school curriculum and interests of the young visitors to the Hermitage themselves The first children's guide book to an exhibition in the history of the Hermitage is devoted to the history of Mesopotamia. In a simple and accessible form it acquaints the reader with one of the greatest civilizations in the history of mankind. Young readers will be able to acquaint themselves in detail with Russia's only collection of bas reliefs from the palaces of the Assyrian kings. The small Hermitage collection is presented in the context of the historical period and the history of the development of Assyrian art. The reader will learn about what the rulers of Assyria were like and how they wanted to be seen in the eyes of their contemporaries and successors; what the Assyrian palaces looked like; about their weapons, dress, and decorative ornaments; about when and how the excavations in the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers began. The book devotes a lot of attention to the Hermitage's cuneiform collection. Like the Hermitage's collection of bas reliefs , it is not large but it is representative. The book talks about the appearance and development of cuneiform, about how they were deciphered, about the forms of cuneiform texts. Modern day school children will be able to learn about how students in Sumerian schools lived four thousand years ago: they will see their clay textbooks and notebooks. The guidebook to the Hermitage exhibition on Mesopotamia has been produced to a high level of design and polygraphy. |
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