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she watches as her mother's dreams of becoming a concert pianist are stifled by an unsatisfying marriage

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Or that the world's oldest tree began growing before the pyramids were built

Assyria OG25 she watches as her mother'sThe first comprehensive account of the rise and fall of what historians consider to be the worlds very first empire: Assyria 'A work of remarkable synthesis. The range of its sources is truly extraordinary . . . Frahm punctures a fair share of myths too' Pratinav Anil, The Times At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian