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

The Judeo-Christian tradition is generally seen to encompass the half of the globe that stretches from the America's Pacific Coast in the West to the environs of the Khyber pass in the East. 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.