They wrote on Clay-the Babylonian Tablets speak today" by Edward Chiera. Pub by The University of Chicago Press in 1938.
If our civilization should go to pieces, and in 10,000 years another race of men were to dig for knowledge of the past, they would think the second and third millenniums B.C. the golden age of mankind. For the written records of our own era would have disintegrated, while every written word of a civilization that is already 2,000 to 5,000 years old would still be there. The court proceedings of the ancient Mesopotamian people, their edicts, business transactions, history, religion, and science are all preserved forever in their small but indestructible diaries-the Babylonian clay tablets.
Book is 234 pp. Minor tears to dust jacket, some bumping and slight wear but in very good condition.
