The Ark Before Noah: Deciphering Ancient Mesopotamian Cuneiform
Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian Script, 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.
Irving Finkel, Assistant Keeper I with responsibility for cuneiform in the Department of the Middle East, British Museum.
This talk, illustrated by a PowerPoint, will describe what befell the speaker after one quite remarkable cuneiform tablet was brought for examination to the British Museum in London. The inscription on this four-thousand-year-old tablet led to a series of altogether unexpected discoveries, demanding a whole new look at Noah and his Ark, and culminating in a book and a documentary film.