Irving Finkel

Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian Script, British Museum

British Museum

1 standalone talk · 1 total lecture · 1h recorded

History & Humanities

Standalone talks by Irving Finkel

Self-contained public lectures, keynote addresses, and research seminars.

The Ark Before Noah: Deciphering Ancient Mesopotamian Cuneiform

58:19

History·Public Colloquium

The Ark Before Noah: Deciphering Ancient Mesopotamian Cuneiform

Irving Finkel·British Museum

Irving Finkel discusses his decipherment of a 3,700-year-old Babylonian cuneiform tablet containing detailed instructions for building a circular coracle ark, offering a new perspective on the Flood narrative.

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Bronze Age Collapse, Ancient Near East & Imperial Rome

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EditorialHistory·introductory

Bronze Age Collapse, Ancient Near East & Imperial Rome

Cuneiform philology, Mediterranean trade networks, Hebrew scripture, and Roman urbanism

British Museum · George Washington University · Yale University +1

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