Irving Finkel

Irving Finkel is the senior curator responsible for the cuneiform tablet collection in the museum. He is a specialist in medical and magical works in Akkadian and particularly interested in esoteric inscriptions that concern ancient thought and speculation. He has been responsible for exhibitions inside and outside the museum, including Asian Games: The Art of Conquest (Asia Society New York, 2004) and Babylon: Myth and Reality (British Museum, 2008). He is the author of books for adults and children, including the bestselling The Ark before Noah, and is a world expert on ancient games and Founder of the Great Diary Project.

BOOKS BY THIS CONTRIBUTOR

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

ed. Irving Finkel

Archaeopress Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology 10

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 interests with a focus on the Jordan Valley and southern Levant, but also north Syria, Mesopotamia, and the protection of endangered cultural heritage. READ MORE

Paperback: £45.00 | eBook: £16.00

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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 to 2000. Here is fresh work from which any reader can gain a new appreciation of the importance of the ancient Near East. READ MORE

Paperback: £60.00 | eBook: £16.00