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Uses activities and handicraft projects to reinforce information about the clothing, architecture, writing, work, food, and religion of the Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Nubians, and Hittites who lived in the Near East in ancient times.

Traces the development of man from the earliest food-gatherers through the origins of civilization to the consolidation of the Persian Empire.

Describes ancient Mesopotamia, now located in present-day Iraq, and traces its history, technological innovations, people, and culture from 10,000 to 539 B.C.

“American Sheikhs” is the story of a great institution, the American University of Beirut (AUB) and the families who created and fostered it for almost 150 years. Author Brian VanDeMark's vivid narrative includes not only the colorful history of AUB and many memorable episodes in a family saga, but also larger and more important themes. In the story of the efforts of these two families to build a great school with alternating audacity, arrogance,...