Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East

in the news | January 14, 2015

Gerard Russell:

Gerard Russell shows in his new book Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms that this tradition can in fact be driven back much further to early roots in Babylonian, Persian and Egyptian society and in doing so, he exposes some rare and strange religious highways and byways that are still – albeit barely in a number of cases – functioning.*

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