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Irving Finkel

Biography

Irving Finkel

Dr. Irving Finkel is Assistant Keeper of ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures at the British Museum. He is the curator in charge of cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia, of which the Middle East Department has the largest collection of any modern museum.

Irving Finkel

Books by Irving Finkel

The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood
by Irving Finkel - History, Nonfiction

Since the Victorian period, it has been understood that the story of Noah derives from a much older story that existed centuries before in ancient Babylon. But the relationship between the Babylonian and biblical traditions was shrouded in mystery. Then, in 2009, Irving Finkel, a world authority on ancient Mesopotamia, found himself playing detective when a member of the public arrived at the museum with an intriguing cuneiform tablet that revealed a new version of the Babylonian Flood Story.