Conspiracy and Catastrophe in Ancient Middle East - an Editorial Review of "The Flood"
Book Blurb:'Mystery, conspiracy and catastrophe combine in this tense evocation of the ancient Middle East.' Steven Veerapen2700 B.C.Sumer.Uruk’s growing supremacy over Sumer is threatened when its main levee collapses and a flood destroys the Ziggurat of Inanna and its intricate system of canals. Uruk’s priest-king, The En, is forced to call on the city’s army to help rebuild the structures before the Euphrates River rises again.Zag, the chief scribe of Uruk’s military leader, is tasked with or
