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Cuneiform by Irving Finkel
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Cuneiform script on tablets of clay is, as far as we know, the oldest form of writing in the world. The choice of clay as writing medium in ancient Mesopotamia meant that records of all kinds could... -
The Writing in the Stone by Irving Finkel
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.80In the capital, Nineveh, resides a deep and complex man, the power behind the King of the World. Faced with unforeseen disaster that threatens his authority, he emerges as a psychopathic killer.The... -
In Context: the Reade Festschrift by Irving Finkel
Booksplease Price: £61.05In 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... -
The Last Resort Library by Irving Finkel 9781904999416
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £13.48"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 by private... -
Cuneiform: Ancient Scripts by Irving Finkel 9781606064474
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £18.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606064474Author Irving FinkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint -
The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator by Irving Finkel
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'It's enthralling stuff, mixing the scholarly with the accessible and placing storytelling right at the heart of the human experience.' - History Revealed'A fascinating journey' - Yorkshire... -
The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood by Irving Finkel
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £16.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345804396Author Irving FinkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint -
The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood by Irving Finkel 9781444757088
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88In THE ARK BEFORE NOAH, British Museum expert Dr Irving Finkel reveals how decoding the symbols on a 4,000 year old piece of clay enable a radical new interpretation of the Noah's Ark myth. A world... -
The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: A New Beginning for the Middle East by John Curtis 9780714111872
Booksplease Price: £35.43The Cyrus Cylinder is one of the most famous objects to have survived from the ancient world. Inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform on the orders of the Persian King Cyrus the Great (559 530BC) after he... -
The Cyrus Cylinder: The Great Persian Edict from Babylon by Irving Finkel 9781350297050
Booksplease Price: £42.36Some historical artefacts are destined forever to alter how the ancient world is perceived. The unearthing in today's Iraq (in 1879) of a clay cylinder-shaped decree from Cyrus the Great, founder of... -
‘To Aleppo gone …’: Essays in honour of Jonathan N. Tubb by Irving Finkel 9781803274706
Booksplease Price: £46.59To Aleppo Gone ... is a festschrift offered in honour of Jonathan Tubb, former Levant curator and Keeper of the Department of the Middle East at the British Museum. It includes 44 contributions... -
Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem by Michael Schmidt 9780691205168
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.46Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poetsGilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. Lost for... -
Babylon: the Mother of All Cities by Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 9781035416738
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38'A masterpiece' TRISTAN HUGHES'Engrossing and informative' DR. ERIC H. CLINE'Sweeps you up and carries you off like the River Tigris itself!' IRVING FINKELBabylon often appears more myth than history... -
Complete Babylonian: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Babylonian, with Original Texts Martin Worthington 9781473627802
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £31.55Designed for complete beginners, and tested for years with real learners, Complete Babylonian offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, enabling you to learn the grammar, understand the... -
Babylon: the Mother of All Cities by Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 9781035416714
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.42'A book that's rich with meticulous scholarship, illuminated by sharp wit, and full of subtle judgment. Babylon is quite simply enthralling' TELEGRAPH'Intimate and immensely detailed. I've never...