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    The Cyrus Cylinder: The Great Persian Edict from Babylon

    The unearthing in today’s Iraq (in 1879) of a clay cylinder-shaped decree from Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, stands in the same tradition of game-changing…

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    The Writing in the Stone

    Irving Finkel

    The landscape of this dark and powerful story is the ancient world of Assyria some 3000 years ago, a time when writing was in the world’s oldest script, cuneiform, and…

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    The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood

    Irving Finkel

    THE ARK BEFORE NOAH: Decoding the Story of the Flood by Dr Irving Finkel is a compelling investigation of one of the most famous myths in the world - and…

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    The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood

    Irving Finkel

    THE ARK BEFORE NOAH: Decoding the Story of the Flood by Dr Irving Finkel is a compelling investigation of one of the most famous myths in the world - and…

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    The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator

    Irving Finkel

    Dr Irving Finkel, curator at the British Museum, explores why the belief in ghosts is what makes us human.

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    The Last Resort Library

    Irving, Finkel

    The library is situated, said the short entry in the Guide to British Libraries A-L, in pleasant rolling countryside not too far from Hereford, and is perhaps most readily accessible…

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    Cuneiform: Ancient Scripts

    Irving Finkel,Jonathan Taylor

    Cuneiform script on clay tablets is, as far as we know, the oldest form of writing in the world. The resilience of clay has permitted these records to survive for…

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    The Lewis Chessmen and what happened to them

    Irving Finkel,David Attenborough

    A charming and original illustrated story for children, following the adventures of the world’s most famous chessmen r ead by David Attenborough

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    Cuneiform

    Irving Finkel,Jonathan Taylor

    A unique and accessible insight into the world’s oldest writing system, revealing how ancient inscriptions lead to a new way of thinking about the past.

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    In Context: the Reade Festschrift

    Irving Finkel

    ‘In Context: the Reade Festschrift’ is a collection of invited and peer-reviewed essays by friends and colleagues of Julian Edgeworth Reade, sometime Mesopotamia curator at the British Museum from 1975…

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    The Idea of Writing: Play and Complexity

    This exploration of the versatility of writing systems highlights their complexity when they are used to represent loanwords, solve problems of polysemy or when they are adapted to be used…

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    ‘To Aleppo gone …’: Essays in honour of Jonathan N. Tubb

    A festschrift in honour of Jonathan Tubb, former Levant curator and Keeper of the Department of the Middle East at the British Museum. 44 contributions reflect Jonathan's career and professional…

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